Allottware RA add on for WinCC v1 1
RA Add-On for WinCC v1.1 User Manual Allottware CC Reg No: 2004/028046/23 P.O. Box 12611, Vorna Valley, 1686, South Africa Tel: +27 82 809 3262 Fax: +27 11 315 1464 Email: rallott@mweb.co.za Web: www.allottware.co.za Managing Members: Reuben Allott User Manual RA Add-On for WinCC v1.1 Rev: 2, 6 Feb 2005 Page 2 of 37 RA Add-On for WinCC CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION . 3 1.1 RA V 1.1 O VERVIEW . 3 1.2 S YSTEM R EQUIREMENTS 3 1.3 A DDITIONAL H ELP . 3 2 GETTING STARTED 4 2.1 I NSTALLATION 4 2.2 P ROJECT C REATION 5 2.3 S TANDARD P ROJECT C ONFIGURATIONS . 6 2.4 RA N AVIGATION B UILDER . 8 2.5 P ROJECT A CTIVATION 10 2.6 W EB N AVIGATOR . 11 3 RA NAVIGATION BUILDER 15 3.1 O VERVIEW . 15 3.2 T EMPLATE S ELECTION . 15 3.3 N AVIGATION C ONFIGURATION . 16 3.4 B RANDING 19 3.5 B UILDING . 19 4 RUNTIME FUNCTIONALITY . 20 4.1 D EFAULT T EMPLATE 20 4.2 M AIN T OOL B UTTONS 20 4.3 D EFAULT M ENUS . 21 4.4 N AVIGATOR . 22 4.5 H ELP P AGE . 23 4.6 L OOP - IN -A LARM 24 4.7 A UDIBLE A LARMS (H ORN ) . 25 4.8 RA W IN CC T AG D EBUGGER . 26 4.9 S PLIT -S CREEN C ONFIGURATIONS . 27 4.10 H IERARCHICAL A LARM N AVIGATION 28 5 RA FACEPLATE BUILDER . 29 6 RA RECIPE MANAGER . 30 7 INCLUDED SCRIPT LIBRARY 31 8 WIZARDS . 32 8.1 RA W IZARDS . 32 8.2 H OW TO L OAD THE W IZARDS . 33 8.3 H OW TO U SE THE W IZARDS . 34 8.4 E XAMPLE U SAGE . 35 9 CREATING YOUR OWN TEMPLATES 36 10 RA DEMO PROJECT 37 User Manual RA Add-On for WinCC v1.1 Rev: 2, 6 Feb 2005 Page 3 of 37 RA Add-On for WinCC 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 RA v1.1 Overview Allottware RA v1.1 is an attractive alternative to the Basic Process Control navigation system that ships with SIMATIC WinCC v6.0. The system builds menus and faceplates from a set of template files. You can edit the standard template files or create your own templates altogether. The system supports split- screen configurations and can be published correctly using the Web Navigator or Data Monitor systems (unlike Basic Process Control). RA v1.1 is aimed primarily at small to medium sized systems implemented as an integrated Step7/WinCC project. The Faceplate Builder is designed to work with structured tags generated automatically by the Step7 OS compilation of Function Blocks and instance Data Blocks (if you are using Siemens PLC and Siemens HMI, then this is how your project should already be structured). You can also use the RA Faceplate Builder in a stand-alone WinCC system as long as you use tag structures that mimic the structures created by Step7 function blocks. This is described later. NOTE: The RA Template builder generates a project using completely standard WinCC graphics and scripts. You can copy the project to another computer that does not have RA installed on it and the project will still work correctly, although you won’t be able to edit the navigation menus. 1.2 System Requirements The following software versions were used in testing. Other versions may or may not work correctly: Product Version (Revision Level) Windows XP Professional 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600 MS Internet Explorer V6 + SP2 MS Internet Information Services IIS 5.1 Step7 Professional V 5.3 + SP1 (K5.3.1.0) WinCC V6.0 + SP2 + Hotfix 3 (V6.0.2.3) Web Navigator Server V6.0 + SP1 + Hotfix 2 (V6.0.1.2) Web Navigator Client V6.0 + SP1 (V6.0.1.0) 1.3 Additional Help You can find the latest online help at the official RA web site: http://www.allottware.co.za/ra User Manual RA Add-On for WinCC v1.1 Rev: 2, 6 Feb 2005 Page 4 of 37 RA Add-On for WinCC 2 GETTING STARTED 2.1 Installation This getting started guide shows how to integrate a brand new WinCC project into an existing Step7 project, apply the RA Template and publish it using the WinCC Web Navigator option. It assumes that you already have Step7, WinCC, Web Navigator Server and corresponding authorizations installed. Before installing Web Navigator you must have IIS installed. Please refer to the Web Navigator/IIS documentation for this. When you install WinCC you must select the Basic Process Control option. RA v1.1 Add-On for WinCC is installed from the RA setup CD or from the setup.exe file found in the RAv1.1.zip file downloaded from www.allottware.co.za. This is a standard Windows installation: You can accept the default installation path and just click next until the wizard has completed the installation. User Manual RA Add-On for WinCC v1.1 Rev: 2, 6 Feb 2005 Page 5 of 37 RA Add-On for WinCC 2.2 Project Creation Open your Step7 project and insert an OS server from the “Insert New Object” context menu. Rename the OS to something suitable, without characters such as parentheses (brackets), and then compile it. If you are unfamiliar with compiling the OS you can ignore this step. User Manual RA Add-On for WinCC v1.1 Rev: 2, 6 Feb 2005 Page 6 of 37 RA Add-On for WinCC 2.3 Standard Project Configurations Right-click on your OS and select “Open Object” to open your OS project with WinCC. If you have correctly installed the RA v1.1 Add-On then you should see it in the tree just above Web Navigator: Before using the RA Template Builder you must apply a few project settings. 2.3.1 Project Properties When you create an OS project in Step7 it defaults to a multi-user project. This can cause license errors if you are building a single-user system and do not have a Server authorization for WinCC. Right-click on the very first node in the tree (the name you gave to your OS) and change the project to a single-user system. User Manual RA Add-On for WinCC v1.1 Rev: 2, 6 Feb 2005 Page 7 of 37 RA Add-On for WinCC 2.3.2 OS Project Editor The RA Template works with the standard alarm configurations generated by the Basic Process Control editor. We don’t use the Basic Process Control navigation system though. Open the Basic Process Control editor from the context menu. If you do not see the OS- ProjectEditor add-on then you must install the Basic Process Control add-on from the WinCC install CD. You do not need to make any changes in the editor. Simply click the OK button and it will generate the standard alarm system configuration. The Basic Process Control pictures will also be applied, but these will be overwritten when the RA Template is applied. User Manual RA Add-On for WinCC v1.1 Rev: 2, 6 Feb 2005 Page 8 of 37 RA Add-On for WinCC 2.4 RA Navigation Builder Right-click on “Navigation System” to open the RA Template builder The first time you open it the selection will be blank. Select the template you want for your project from the drop-down list. The navigation menus will be populated with some default picture selections. We explain later how to add new pictures into the navigation menus, but for now you can build the project with the default pictures. User Manual RA Add-On for WinCC v1.1 Rev: 2, 6 Feb 2005 Page 9 of 37 RA Add-On for WinCC On the “Branding” page you can select your own image files to be incorporated into the project, or you can leave the default images in place. On the “Build” page, select the option to delete the Basic Process Control picture files. This will delete all the files starting with “@” from the GraCS folder. If you do not do this the project will be activated with the BPC screen template. Click on “Build” to generate your project. User Manual RA Add-On for WinCC v1.1 Rev: 2, 6 Feb 2005 Page 10 of 37 RA Add-On for WinCC 2.5 Project Activation Activate the project from the File menu or with the “Play” button. The first time you run the project you will have to define the start picture. Select the “raMain.pdl” file. If you want a split-screen configuration, select one of the “raSplit_XxX” pictures. The WinCC project should now be activated with the RA Template.