Rockwell Automation 2711C-xxxx PanelView Component HMI Terminals Quick Start User Manual

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Publication 2711C-QS001F-EN-P - November 2010

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Open a New Application Chapter 3

The design environment opens in a separate window, showing the Screens view.

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Review areas of screen.
This is where you will spend most of your time.

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Screen area

Description

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Navigation tabs

Provides access to the different functional areas of an application.

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Application toolbar

Provides common tools that are available to all views of the application. Drag your mouse over each tool

to see the purpose of each tool.

Application Language Selects a language for viewing and editing application components. Languages for an application are

defined and translated from the Languages navigation tab.

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Cursor controls

Hides or shows the Controls or Properties panel to increase the workspace area.

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Screen list

Contains a list of screens in the application including the alarm banner and diagnostics banner.

The bullet indicates the startup screen for runtime operations.

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Screen workspace

Contains objects that you drag to the screen from the object palette.

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Object palette

Contains panels of objects that you can drag to the screen workspace. Click the cursor on a tab to open

or close a panel of objects. The palette can occupy 25, 50 or 75% of the Controls panel. Right-click on

the object palette heading to resize it. The object palette and screen list are resized accordingly.

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