Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk View Machine Edition Users Guide - Manual (Page 111)

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Set up global connections
This chapter describes:
 What global connections are.
 Update the date and time.
 Change displays.
 Control display changes remotely.
 Use parameter files or parameter lists with display changes.
 Close On Top displays.
 Print displays.
 Run macros.
 Set up the backlight intensity remotely.
 Monitor run-time RAM usage.
About global connections
Global connections are connections that apply to your entire run-time application. Global
connections allow the data source to control or interact with your application at run time.
You can use global connections to:
 Update the date and time at the data source using the run-time terminal’s date and
time.
 Update the date and time on the run-time terminal using the data source date and time.
 Notify the data source of the current display number.
 Notify the data source when a display is printed.
 Change the display on the run-time terminal remotely (from the data source).
 Close On Top displays
 Apply parameter files or parameter lists to the tag placeholders in the changed
displays.
 Print the current display from the data source.
 Run up to five macros from the data source, when a tag or expression result changes.