Book view, E 50) – Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Historian SE ProcessBook 3.2 User Guide User Manual

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Whether you are in Outline View or Book View, you can edit and
rearrange entries, or delete entries altogether. Some functions are
performed the same regardless of the view in which you are working.

Book View is a useful organizational tool when your ProcessBook has only
a few dozen displays. If your ProcessBook is large and contains many
displays, Outline View is faster and easier to use.

If there is no ProcessBook or independent display selected in your
Preference settings, click File > Open or File > Create to open or initiate
a file.

Book View

In Book View

, the ProcessBook displays as a loose-leaf binder.

Tabs indicate major divisions in the ProcessBook. Each tab section has a
heading, which may be any ProcessBook entry. The entry title is used as
the tab name. A tab section may contain several pages of entries
representing different types of information. There is no limit to the number
of tabs you may have in a Book. However, as you add tabs or reduce the
size of the ProcessBook, the tabs are stacked to the right of the Book. This
might make the ProcessBook difficult to read in Book View.

When you create a first-level entry in Book View, the name becomes the
label for the section tab. If the entry is the first entry you have added to the
ProcessBook, the entry level is automatically set at 1. Subsequent sub-
entries are listed below the main entry. When you select another first level
entry, a new page is created with a new tab. You can have up to 10 levels
of entries in a ProcessBook, but levels 3 to 10 are displayed in Book View
as though they were at the same level.

Displays within a tab section are typically arranged in a hierarchical
fashion. For example, a display that includes a boiler, a condenser, and a
pump may be at the top level of a tab section. The boiler, the condenser,
and the pump may be separate displays that are arranged underneath the

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