Command ‘HMI views’

Function: This is a list of all views that help you as an HMI developer for creating an HMI application: Data sources, HMI features, Programming, and Visualizations.

Call: Menu bar: View.

Requirement: The command is visible when CODESYS is displayed in the HMI perspective.

An HMI project can contain any number of applications for both controllers and HMI devices. However, a view contains only the objects that are linked into the selected application.

This application is selected in the drop-down list List of all applications. The list is located in the standard toolbar. It lists all applications of the project and always the POUs entry. When the POUs entry is selected, the objects valid across the project are displayed in the views (similar to the POUs view).

See also

View ‘Data sources’

The view contains the node object Data source manager of the selected application with the objects below of type Data source.

See also

  • Object ‘Data source’: _cds_obj_data_source
  • Object ‘Data source manager’: _cds_obj_data_sources_manager

View ‘HMI features’

This view contains all objects of the following type in the selected application:

  • Visualization manager
  • Device
  • Alarm management
  • Recipe manager
  • Text lists
  • Image pools
  • Trend recordings
  • Unit conversion

View ‘Programming’

This view contains objects of the selected application that often do not have to be modified for the creation of an HMI application. If this view is closed, then you have a better overview of your HMI application.

Non-HMI relevant object types:

  • DUT
  • External file
  • Global variable list
  • Global variable list (receiver)
  • Global variable list (sender)
  • Persistent variables
  • POU
  • POU for implicit checks
  • Symbol configuration
  • Trace
  • Library manager
  • Task configuration

View ‘Visualizations’

This view contains all visualizations of the selected application:

See also