If GT Designer is started via the Start Menu, the GT Designer Explorer is opened first。 From here, the various editors can be accessed in which the various specialized tasks of a given operating and monitoring system are performed。

The GT Designer Editors

Graphics Designer

The Graphics Designer is a vector-oriented drawing program for creating process pictures。 Numerous graphic objects, which are contained in an object and styles palette, can also be used to create complex process pictures。 Dynamics can be added to inpidual graphic objects by means of action programming。 Wizards provide support by automatically generating frequently used dynamics and linking them to objects。 You can store your own graphic objects in a library。

Alarm Logging

Alarm Logging provides displays and operating options for acquiring and archiving results。 You can freely select the message blocks, the message classes, the message type, the message is play, and the report。 The System Wizard and the configuration dialogs provide support during configuration。 To display messages in runtime, the Alarm Control which is contained in the object palette of the Graphics Designer is used。

Tag Logging

Tag Logging is used for acquiring data from running processes and for preparing them for display and archiving。 The data formats of the archives and the acquisition and archiving timers can be freely selected。 The display of the process values is made via the GT Designer Online Trend and Table Controls, which display the data in trend and table form, respectively。

Report Designer

The Report Designer is an integrated reporting system for timer- or event-controlled documentation of messages, operations, archive contents, and current or archived data in the form of user reports or project documentation in freely selectable layouts。 It provides a comfortable user interface with tool and graphic palettes and supports the various report types。 Various standard system layouts and print jobs are available。 

Global Script

Global Script is the generic term for C functions and actions which, depending on type, can be used within a given project or within numerous projects。 Scripts are used to configure actions to objects。 They are processed using a system-internal C compiler。 Global Script actions are used at runtime in process execution。 Their execution is initiated by a trigger。

Text Library

In the Text Library, you can edit texts which are used in runtime by the various modules。 The foreign language output texts are defined in the Text Library for the configured texts。 These are then output in the selected runtime language。

User Administrator

The User Administrator is used for allocating and controlling access authorizations of the users for the inpidual configuration- and runtime-system editors。 When a user is set up, the access rights for the GT Designer functions are set and inpidually assigned to the respective user。 Up to 999 different authorizations can be allocated。 User authorizations can be allocated at system runtime。

Cross Reference

Cross Reference is used to find and display all points of use for objects, e。g。 tags, pictures, and functions。 With the "Linking" function tag names can be changed without causing inconsistencies in the configuration。

GT Designer Basic Options

Client Server

With its client-server functionality, GT Designer can be used to operate several coordinated operating and monitoring stations in a common interconnection with networked automation systems。 Up to 64 subscribers can theoretically be integrated in a single project。

Redundancy

GT Designer Redundancy offers the possibility to operate two coupled server-PCs in parallel so that they can monitor one another。 Should one of the two server computers fail, the second server assumes control of the entire system。 After the server which failed is brought back into service, the contents of all message and process archives are copied to the server which was out of service。