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2.8 Virtual keyboard

If it is required, values can be entered by Virtual keyboard. This is very useful especially if
Reliance Web Client is operated on a computer without a keyboard (e.g. a touch panel).

Virtual Keyboard

Numerical keypad can be easily hidden with the Num. Pad key. The size and the layout of the
virtual keyboard can be adjusted via combo boxes located at the top left part of the window.

Note: Changing layout of the virtual keyboard to required language settings changes only key
labels. Real meaning of the keys depends on the layout selected in operation system (usually
with ALT + SHIFT).

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2.9 Text Data Viewer

Text Data Viewer is a dialog window designed to view (usually historical) data as a text. The
viewer can be used to display Alarm/Event list or Trend data in a simple text form. Data values
are separated by the semicolon by default, but the separator can be changed. The list can
optionally contain Title, Header and Footer.Data in the text form can be easily copied to the
clipboard and used by another application (e.g. MS Excel). Data can also be saved to a file in
the CSV format.

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Text Data Viewer

Toolbar contains following commands:

Select All
Selects all rows of the list.

Copy To Clipboard
Copies selected text to the clipboard.

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Save To File
Saves text to the selected file.

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2.10 Common GUI elements

Window menu
Activate Virtual keyboard button

2.10.1 Window menu

Web Client's main window and Web Client's system windows (e.g. Alarm/Event viewers, Trend
viewer) contain special combo box so called Window Menu.

Window Menu

Window Menu contains (depending on window type) commands for closing, maximizing and
minimizing the window. The commands have the same functionality as commands contained
in the title bar (to ensure compatibility with operation systems where title bar is not standard
part of the window).

2.10.2 Virtual keyboard button

Some dialog windows (e.g. User Logon and Edit Tag Value) contain the Virtual keyboard
button. The button brings up the Virtual keyboard.

Show virtual keyboard button

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2.11 Options

The Options dialog window enables the user to change Web Client settings.

Tools – Options

Alarms/Events

Basic
The Play Sounds parameter enables/disables sounds associated with alarms/events.
This parameter is available only in the Current Alarm/Event viewer.

Columns
Defines visibility and position of columns displayed in the Alarm/Event viewers. It is
possible to configure columns in the Current Alarm/Event viewer, in the Current Alarm/
Event viewer embedded in the Container type component and in the Historical Alarm/
Event viewer.

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Reports
Defines the format used to view Reports and Custom Reports (HTML or PDF). Report is
dynamically generated by the data server in selected format and displayed in the default
browse.

Page
Defines the layout of generated HTML page for large reports (multiple pages).

IP Cameras
Defines the image refresh interval of IP cameras. If the Direct Connection parametr is
activated then the image will be provided directly by IP camera. In other case the image
will be provided trough the data server.

Confirmations
Defines if a confirmation dialog should be displayed and the automatic answer. Another
way to define this settings is with the parameter "Don't show this message again" in the
confirmation dialog.

Look & Feel

Enables the user to select GUI graphical theme. The list of available themes depends on
an OS and on the JRE version. Changes will take effect after restart of Web Client.

Use System Font

Defines if operation system's font should be used for controls.

Log
Enables logging of various information internally generated by Web Client. The logs are
stored in the user's profile (Documents and Settings) and can be requested by the
software author to help resolving eventual problems.

Miscellaneous

Send Anonymous Usage Statistics

Defines if anonymous information on usage of the Web Client should be send to a
GEOVAP, s.r.o. company server. Information is sent always when program starts and it is
used only for statistic purposes.

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The Web Client's settings are stored in the Operation System user's profile, which means that
settings are common to all visualization projects. Also other settings, such as system window
position or size and column width in alarm/event viewers, are stored in the same way.

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3 Appendix

3.1 Glossary

JNLP (Java Network Launching Protocol)

Protocol designed to start program written in the Java programming language via Internet
(Java Web Start).

PDF (Portable Document Format)

A file format created by Adobe Systems for document exchange. PDF is used for
representing documents in a form independent of software and hardware.
CSV (Comma-separated values)
A simple text based format designed for exchange of tabular data.
Data servers
A common term for the Reliance Server and Reliance Control Server runtime software.
HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)
A markup language for creating Web pages.
Java Web Start
A framework developed by Sun Microsystems that allows starting and automatically
updating programs written in Java directly from Web pages.
JRE (Java Runtime Environment)
The runtime environment for programs written in Java.
SOAP (Simple Obj ect Access Protocol)
A protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over the Internet, usually via HTTP.
TCP port
A special number used to map data to a particular process running on a computer.

Thin clients
A common term for Reliance Web Client and Reliance Smart Client (designed for use
with smartphones and tablets).

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Web server
A program responsible for processing HTTP requests from clients, usually from Web
browsers. Processing a request means, for example, delivering a Web page.
Web service
A part of a program that allows data exchange with client applications over the Internet
by means of the SOAP protocol. To transfer the data, the Web service uses a Web server.

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