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ADAMView
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  • Page 1 User’s Quick Start Guide Advantech ADAMView 1st Edition...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    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...
  • Page 3 Corporation shall not be held liable for errors in this manual or for incidental or consequential damages in connection with the use of this manual or its contents. American Advantech Corporation reserves the right to revise this manual at any time without prior notice.

  • Page 4: Technical Support

    If you encounter a problem while using ADAMView, first consult the on-line help and this manual. If you are unable to resolve the problem, or if you have questions specific to your application, don’t hesitate to FAX or call for technical support.
  • Page 5 MAINLAND CHINA: Beijing office: No. 7, 6th street, 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: 86-21-64696831, 64697910 FAX: 86-21-64696834...
  • Page 6 Getting Started...

  • Page 7: Introduction

    Autoimation and Control Strategies, System Monitor Displays, and Dynamic Operator Displays. The magic of ADAMView lies in its ability to provide advanced programming features and tools while maintaining ease of use. A library of Icon Blocks representing data acquisition and control, math- ematical and control functions is provided through Task Designer.

  • Page 8: Adamview System Architecture

    1.2 ADAMView System Architecture A major improvement over Version 4.xx is the change in system architecture. We design ADAMView 4.x with a modular-oriented, open integrated architecture. The open platform allows you to easily integrate ADAMView with other applications to share real-time control data. The performance and number of I/O blocks ADAMView can support are increased significantly through this new architecture.
  • Page 9 VBA compatible development environment for script programming. The design work in ADAMView is saved as a strategy file. A strategy file (with extension .GNI) is a binary file that stores all information about an editing session. A strategy is defined as one or more “tasks”...

  • Page 10: Adamview Component Description

    Script Debug Functions The ADAMView editing program can run strategies in a debug mode, in which you work through a program line by line and review a scan task block by block. This major improvement allows users to design and debug complicated strategies in the editor before using the runtime only program.
  • Page 11 Multiple Tasks to Improve Performance ADAMView Task Designer allows editing of multiple tasks at the same time. Each task is contained in a task window and has it‘s own properties such as scan rate, start/stop method, etc. One strategy file is used to store all scan tasks that are related to a control strategy.
  • Page 12 1.3.4 Report Designer ADAMView Report Designer provides a configurable environment in which users can define the contents of a given report. It collects the required data at specific time intervals and these reports are printed automatically at a user-defined time. The interfaces provided in Report Designer may also be used to select and print reports manually.
  • Page 13 1.3.5 Open Data Center Data Center is the central repository for all process monitoring and control data in ADAMView. You can easily integrate real-time data from the data 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 Serial Number Protection and Free Two Hours Trail Use ADAMView is a Serial Protected Software, The serial number is labled on the box and CD Case, we also provide two hours trial use by keyin 0000000000 for Trail use serial number.
  • Page 15 For example, if it is 1998, then YY = 98. For the year 2001, YY = 01. If your system is running from December 31, 1999 to January 1, 2000, ADAMView will store the historical data into two binary files: one is 99123101.HST and the other is 00000101.HST.
  • Page 16 In the Historical Trend Display, ADAMView will record the historical data to files by date. When ADAMView is run continuously for long periods of time, there is a chance of running out of hard disk space. To protect against this, ADAMView 4.25 removes the files generated by Historical Trend Display automatically.
  • Page 17 This command is used to specify the number of decimal digits in the Report Designer. The old version is fixed to 2 decimal digits. In ADAMView 4.25, it can be configured by the user. The commands format is as follows: COMMAND.N...
  • Page 18 1.5 Limitations and Restrictions ADAMView 4.25 includes the following information about usage and limitations of the software to help users use ADAMView correctly. (1) Basic Script Programming Category Task Description * To start/stop a task by Script, the task's starting...
  • Page 19 (b) When using the Msg command to create modeless dialogs or the Sleep command for waiting, do not stop ADAMView when the modeless dialog is still active or the Sleep command is still working. (c) Be careful when programming the script to avoid an infinite loop.
  • Page 20 (d) The maximum string length for string type tags is 128. (3) Report Designer (a) $NOW command applies to all tags created 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: •...
  • Page 21 (4) Alarm Printing ADAMView 4.25 resolves compatibility problems between the alarm printing function and Windows 95/98. If you will be using this feature in ADAMView 4.25, we strongly suggest that you use a dedicated dot matrix printer for alarm printing.
  • Page 22 (c) ADAMView has a dedicated timer for network communication. The polling time of the timer can be different from the scan time. The polling time is set in the configuration file \WINDOWS\ADAMView.INI (the entry NetPollTime). The value of polling time depends on the number of stations and blocks.
  • Page 23 (7) Input Range for Display Items Display Items Field Range From -999999.0 to +999999.0 Bar Graph -999999.0 to +999999.0 Range of X axis (From) -999999.0 to +999999.0 Range of X axis (To) -999999.0 to +999999.0 Trend Graph Range of Y axis (From) -999999.0 to +999999.0 Range of Y axis (To) -999999.0 to +999999.0...

  • Page 24: Preparing To Install Adamview

    Preparing to Install ADAMView...

  • Page 25: System Requirements

    System Hardware Requirements and System Software Requirements before attempting to install the ADAMView system software. 2.1 System Requirements Your computer system must meet or exceed the following requirements in order to run ADAMView. System Hardware Requirements • IBM PC/AT 486 chip compatible computer or higher •...

  • Page 26: Installation And Configuration

    2.2 Installation and Configuration This section lists the contents of your ADAMView system and instructions to install the ADAMView system software to a level that enables you to run the DEMO Strategy supplied on the SETUP disk. ADAMView Package Contents Your ADAMView package includes the following items: •...
  • Page 27 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 return to display a success message. ADAMView is now installed. Should you have any problems...
  • Page 28 The DEMO Strategy, alarm.gni, is a simple strategy that interfaces the DEMO I/O Device to the Display. 1. Load the DEMO Strategy into ADAMView, enter the ADAMView Task Designer by double clicking on the ADAMView Builder icon in the Advantech ADAMView group. Once in the ADAMView Main screen, click the File menu, then open an existing file.
  • Page 29 Figure 2-2 Analog Input block configuration 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 when you later design your display window.
  • Page 30 Figure 2-3 Task and Display connection 2. Run the DEMO Strategy. To run the Strategy from within ADAMView Builder, first save the Strategy (File, Save), and then press Run, located on the menu bar at the top of the Strategy Editor. The DEMO I/O Device’s ±...
  • Page 31 Uninstalling 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 deleting files.

  • Page 32: Adamview Program Group Icons

    ADAMView Runtime The Runtime icon allows you to invoke only the ADAMView runtime environment without the development functions. You can 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.

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