Profiles

Profile Displays are standard configurable CMXä displays designed to give the user a view of up to twenty-four Tags at once. Control changes can be via the standard change Tag dialog box. Tags assigned to a profile display need not be from the same Unit and can be analog or digital.

Besides the names and descriptions of the Tags assigned to it, a profile display also shows:

• The current process variable (PV)
• Control setpoint (SP)
• Output value (OP) and
• Scan status
• Control mode
• Initialization mode, and
• Anti-windup status

Profile Editor offers three styles of dynamically updated profile displays:

• Faceplate Profiles resemble the front of a panel-mounted instrument, and show up to twenty-four Tags side-by-side as if mounted on a rack. Dynamic elements add to the “control panel” look and feel.
• Tabular Profiles list data as text in a columnar format.
• Tempbars feature dynamic vertical temperature bars for as many as sixteen Pvs.

Profile Editor gives the Application Engineer an easy-to-use utility for adding, and modifying profile displays. Access to the Profile Editor is granted only to those with Engineer access-levels or higher via the Profile Directory Display.

Operators call profile displays by name as they would any standard display. Alternatively, a user can call profile displays from the profile directory simply by highlighting and clicking with the mouse. Profiles can be assigned several associated displays and a help display, all accessible with single keystroke combinations.