Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk View Machine Edition Users Guide - Manual (Page 509)

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Summary of steps
Follow these steps to use tag placeholders with parameter files or parameter lists:
1. In the Graphics editor, create graphic objects and assign tag placeholders to the
objects.
2. If you are using parameter files, create parameter files in the Parameters editor for
each set of tags that the display will use. In the parameter files, specify which tags to
substitute for which placeholders.
3. In the Graphics editor, create Goto display buttons, logout buttons, or display list
selectors for opening the display containing tag placeholders. Specify the appropriate
parameter files in the graphic object’s dialog box.
To use parameter lists, specify the
tags for the lists in the dialog box.
For information about setting up Goto display buttons, see page 21-35. For
information about setting up display list selectors, see page 21-37. For information
about setting up buttons, see page 21-17.
4. If the startup display uses tag placeholders, in the Startup editor, specify the parameter
file to use with the startup display. To use a parameter list, specify the tags for the list
in the Startup editor.
For information about the Startup editor, see Chapter 14.
5. If auto logout is enabled, you have the option of opening a display on logout. Specify
the appropriate parameter file in the Runtime tab of the Project Settings dialog box.
To use a parameter list, specify the tags for the list in the Project Settings dialog box.
For information about the Project Settings editor, see Help.
6. If the displays that will be changed remotely by global connections use parameters,
specify the parameter file or parameter list in the Display tab of the Global
Connections editor.
For information on global connections, see Chapter 8.
Create tag placeholders
A tag placeholder is the crosshatch character (#) followed by a number.
The tag placeholder can replace any part of a tag name, including folder names. For
example, you could create a parameter file specifying that the tag placeholder
#1=Folder1. You could assign the folder and a tag name to a graphic object’s connection:
#1\Tag1.
You can create tag placeholders in:
 The Connections tab of an object’s Properties dialog box.