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PART I: Getting Started

1 Introduction

1 Introduction ......................................................................................2
1.1

ADAMView

Overview ....................................................................2

1.2

ADAMView

System Architecture.................................................3

1.3

ADAMView

Component Description ..........................................5

2 Preparing to Install

ADAMView

2.1 System Requirements .............................................................. 20
2.2 Installation and Configuration................................................. 21
2.3

ADAMView Program Group Icons.............................................28

Summary of Contents for ADAMView

Page 1: ...i User s Quick Start Guide Advantech ADAMView 1st Edition...

Page 2: ...T I Getting Started 1 Introduction 1 Introduction 2 1 1 ADAMView Overview 2 1 2 ADAMView System Architecture 3 1 3 ADAMView Component Description 5 2 Preparing to Install ADAMView 2 1 System Requireme...

Page 3: ...not warrant that the ADAMView software package will function properly in every hardware software environment American Advantech Corporation makes no representation or warranties of any kind whatsoeve...

Page 4: ...application don t hesitate to FAX or call for technical support You can also look for Q A at http www advantech com tw USA American Advantech Corporation 750 East Arques Avenue Sunnyvale CA 94086 408...

Page 5: ...reet Shang Di Zone Haidian District 100085 Beijing China TEL 86 10 62984345 47 62986314 17 FAX 86 1 62984341 42 Shanghai office Rm 701 7 F Hua Fu Building A 585 Long Hua W Rd 200232 Shanghai China TEL...

Page 6: ...1 Getting Started...

Page 7: ...n blocks into a strategy connect them and then draw your dynamic display or configure your daily report Display Designer provides a variety of graphic objects to design monitoring and control displays...

Page 8: ...other applications can retrieve or input data to ADAMView I O Driver Responsible for accessing real time data from hardware equipment ADAMView I O drivers cover all Advantech industrial automation AD...

Page 9: ...They are connected to each other by connection wires or invisible links The connections be tween icon blocks are visible in the task designer window The links are referred to as wires be cause of the...

Page 10: ...asic for Application in Excel Word Access etc and Microsoft Visual Basic It is possible to take a Visual Basic source code and compile and execute it under BasicScript without changing a word if only...

Page 11: ...rrangement ADAMView Task Designer features the block sequence arrangement functions that shows the order of execution on all blocks With displayed order number users can arrange the order of execution...

Page 12: ...Report Format Configuration Report format configuration function provides user interface dialog boxes which allow users to set up the report format and report print time Report format entries are orga...

Page 13: ...center into a company wide information system to effi ciently support decision making Data Center features two different sets of interfaces to the outside world C API OLE automation and DDE functions...

Page 14: ...improper use and hardware failure Other Enhancements ADAMView includes a few new functions over Advantech GENIE 3 0 These include new Basic Script commands an improved Report Designer and other featur...

Page 15: ...u can search back and forth to view the data on December 31 1999 and January 1 2000 It dis plays the date as month day year where the year is in a four digit format In addition the HIST Conversion und...

Page 16: ...VIRTASK It is used to monitor the free memory space of the system when running To enable this function the user has to set a value in the Windows ADAMView INI file manually as follows System MemoryChe...

Page 17: ...25 it can be configured by the user The commands format is as follows COMMAND N where COMMAND can be NOW HRnn MAX MAXT MIN MINT or AVE N represents the number of decimal digits which can be from 0 to...

Page 18: ...lue to or from Data Center To retrieve set values of tags in the Data Center via Basic Script Make sure that the data type is correct Refer to the Data Center for data types of tags The user can also...

Page 19: ...TASK1 AO1 Floating point 1 Digital Input TASK1 DI1 Integer 1 Digital Output TASK1 DO1 Long 1 Temperature TASK1 TMP1 Floating point 1 Hardware Counter TASK1 CTFQ1 Floating point 1 Hardware Alarm TASK1...

Page 20: ...ed by ADAMView Please refer to The Tags Created by ADAMView b HRnn MAX MAXT MIN MINT and AVG commands only apply to the following tags Analog Input AI Analog Output AO Digital Input DI Digital Output...

Page 21: ...rical Trend can accept up to 8 traces b ADAMView 4 25 removes the files generated by Historical Trend Display automatically It removes historical log entries that are 30 days old by default Users can...

Page 22: ...with 64M RAM and forty blocks for each station the polling time can be up to 500 milliseconds d The maximum string size for each channel of a network block is 32 characters including a Null character...

Page 23: ...9 0 Range of Y axis To 999999 0 to 999999 0 Size of the Trace Buffer 0 to 8192 Group Box Border Width 0 to 32767 Numeric String Update Rate 0 to 9999 Numeric Control Privilege Level 0 to 255 Initial V...

Page 24: ...2 Preparing to Install ADAMView...

Page 25: ...0 MB free hard disk drive space minimum One CDROM drive VGA controller and monitor Serial or PS 2 mouse Math co processor recommended ADAMView requires that certain operating systems and system settin...

Page 26: ...directories are ADAMView specific files C Program Files ADVANTECH ADAMView Example strategies C Program Files ADVANTECH ADAMView STRATEGY The program group Advantech Automation ADAMview will be autom...

Page 27: ...ase When all the files have been copied you should see the Advantech Automation ADAMView group created within Windows The siz ADAMView icons will be displayed in the group window The setup screen will...

Page 28: ...ll gni files contained in the STRATEGY directory Highlight the one called DEMO01 GNI and press OK Figure 2 1 Opening strategy files alarm gni is a simple strategy that configures the DEMO I O Device a...

Page 29: ...Double click on the trend graph display icon in DISP1 within Display Designer The Display Designer should open along with a trend graph Display Item This is one of many display types you can choose w...

Page 30: ...le Save and then press Run located on the menu bar at the top of the Strategy Editor The DEMO I O Device s 5 volt sine wave will be generated in real time on the Y T display The sine wave continues to...

Page 31: ...ling ADAMView If you wish to completely remove ADAMView from your system you just click on the Uninstall ADAMView icon ADAMView will be removed from your system automatically You don t worry about del...

Page 32: ...execute ADAMView strategy files only without worrying about any changes being made This utility is often used after you finished your system and run it at the end user site Device Manager This icon i...

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