Rockwell Automation 8520-OM Offline Development System Software - Manual (Page 27)

3–4 Getting Started with ODS
Publication MCD-5.1 -August 1999
ODS displays the first line of its menu.
S the Project
A project is a directory you create to
store files for a particular controller or job.
S the Application
An application is a group of programs
used for creating and managing files.
S the Utility
A utility is one of the programs
in an application.
status line
The first line of the ODS screen layout (referred to as the status
line) identifies the project, the application, and the utility.
If a project, an application, or a utility is not active, the word
none appears in the corresponding space in the status line.
The second line of the ODS screen is the menu bar. The menu bar
identifies the pull-down menus. Select the functions you wish to
perform from these menus. The active application and utility
determine which menus are listed. For example, in this screen the
top-level menu bar includes five choices.
In contrast, the menu bar for the 9/Series AMP editor utility includes
four choices for a single process system:
Some menu choices are:
•
highlighted (available for selection)
•
darker or ghosted (unavailable for selection)
ODS automatically enables and disables menu choices according to
the operation that it is performing and its current status. For
example, the F3-Application menu is not available unless a project is
created or selected. Similarly, you must select an application before
the F4-Utility menu becomes available.
Using Pull-down Menus