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Configuration and Settings

The document discusses how to configure and set up animations and visibility settings for faceplates in Siemens HMI software. It provides examples of creating a visibility animation, assigning tags to connect objects, specifying the visible area, and releasing the faceplate configuration.

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Configuration and Settings

The document discusses how to configure and set up animations and visibility settings for faceplates in Siemens HMI software. It provides examples of creating a visibility animation, assigning tags to connect objects, specifying the visible area, and releasing the faceplate configuration.

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Configuration and Settings

3.1 Configuration examples


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No. Action
Creating an animation
• In the workspace you select all
objects (1).
• In the inspector window you open
the “Properties > Animations” tab.
• Add the “Visibility” animation in the
area navigation at “Display” (2).
• Selecting a tag:
The properties/tags from the
“Interface” list are displayed to you
via the symbol (3).
Select the “FaceplateVisible” tag from
the list.
• Selecting the tag automatically
3. connects all marked object with the
“Visibility” animation. You
can see this in the “graphic” area at
the newly created connections (4).
• Specify the area in which the
faceplate shall be visible.
In this example:
Area: 0 to 0.
Visibility: invisible.
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The required settings are thus
completed.
Releasing the faceplate
For the performed configurations to
4. become effective, the created
faceplate must be released.
The faceplate is updated.
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3 Configuration and Settings
3.1 Configuration examples
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No. Action
5. Faceplate view; tag assignment
Call up the created faceplate in a
picture.
The subsequent figure shows the
created faceplate (1).
In the “Properties > Interface” tab of
the faceplate (2) the created tag
“FaceplateVisible” is
displayed (3).
Via the dropdown menu you can
assign an HMI tag to the
“FaceplateVisible” tag via which the
faceplate can be switched invisible
(4).
Note:
The name of the tags was selected so
the stored function can be easily
recognized.
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