Static Objects; Text Fields; Working With Tag Interconnection - Siemens SIMATIC PCS 7 SMART Getting Started

Configuring the operator station
9.6 Working in general with the Graphics Designer
You also receive some background information on interconnecting tags. In this way, you can
create the relationship between the process picture and the process tag.
9.6.5

Static objects

Static Objects
To visualize equipment, such as a pipe or a tank, you require static objects. These objects do
not change while they are in process mode. In other words, they are not influenced by a status
or by a value of a process tag.
9.6.6

Text fields

Text Fields
In a text field, you can enter any information that you want the plant operator to see in the
process picture. For example, you can insert a text field to allow you to label objects and to
simplify the assignment of the picture objects to the process for the operator. You can enter
any text in these text fields and can position the text fields anywhere in the process picture.
For the "color_gs" project, you will insert text fields with appropriate labels for all the process
tags.
9.6.7

Working with tag interconnection

Tag interconnection
Tag interconnection is a central function when you create process pictures: Objects are entered
in the process picture that represent the process values of a process tag in the process mode.
With the tag interconnection, you can create the connection between the object in the process
picture and the actual process tag. This enables the OS to receive data from the AS, to display
the data in the process picture and to update the data.
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