Basic Sfc Settings - Siemens SIMATIC PCS 7 Programming And Operating Manual

Basic SFC settings

Settings in WinCC Explorer
The general settings for the visualization of SFC charts and SFC instances within the runtime
system are made in WinCC Explorer. You can make these changes globally for all displayed
SFCs or for specific objects.
Global Settings
Global settings for displaying SFCs affect the following areas:
● Topology
● Colors
● Authorization level
● Group display
To open the "SFC" dialog, select "SFC" in the WinCC Explorer and open the context menu.
Then, select the menu command Open.
You can specify the size of the objects and the distance between them for the topology in the
detail area and overview area.
Use the check box "Always show in faceplate" to specify if the SFC faceplate is always
displayed.
You choose colors to distinguish the states of steps, transitions and selected objects in the
display.
You change the authorization levels for operator inputs if you require levels other than the
default levels ("Monitoring", "Process Operation" and "Advanced Process Operation"). These
settings apply to all SFCs in the relevant WinCC project, unless specific authorization levels
have been set for the SFC in question.
These authorizations remain in place following OS compilation.
In order to grant a user the authorization to perform operator inputs in SFC Visualization, the
corresponding authorization levels must be enabled for this user (globally or area-specific) in
the User Administrator.
If no users are configured, all operator inputs are permitted without restriction. In this case, the
"Authorization Levels" tab is not available.
To access the configuration for the group display, choose the "Group Display Properties"
button on the "Group Display" tab.
In the Group Display window, the following additional tabs are available:
Tab
Geometry
Colors
Style
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Setting
Size of the display fields
Background color of the display fields
3D frame width (in pixels)
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