Advantech ADAMView Quick Start Manual 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. You will see a displayed directory tree
containing the ADAMView directory and the STRATEGY directory. Double click on the Strategy
directory, and you will see all *.gni files contained in the STRATEGY directory. Highlight the one
called "DEMO01.GNI", and press OK.
alarm.gni is a simple strategy that configures the DEMO I/O Device analog input channel 0 to a
trend graph display item. Double click on the AI icon and you will see a box displaying information
about the Analog Input Block. Click on the arrow to the right of the box labeled Device, and you
should see a list of all installed devices that provide the Analog Input function. Highlight the DEMO
device. This is the device from which we will collect Analog Input information within this AI block.
Choose channel 0 for sine wave and click OK to accept your choices.
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Figure 2-1 Opening strategy files