RSView Supervisory Edition Installation Guide

10 • CREATING DERIVED TAGS• • • • •• In the Macros editor, create a macro that contains the command, DerivedOn. In the HMI Server Properties dialog, click the Components tab, selectthe Macro check box, and then specify the macro. Derived tag processing will startwhen the HMI server runs.• In the Events editor, specify the DerivedOn command as the action foran event.10 • Placeholder• At the command line in RSView Studio, or the RSView Administration Console ,type DerivedOn and then press Enter.Stand-alone applications onlyThe following methods are not recommended for distributed applications, as they useclients rather than servers to start derived tags processing:• In the Graphics editor, create a button and then specify the DerivedOn command as the button’s press action. When the button is pressed, derived tagprocessing starts.• In the Graphics editor, create a graphic object and then attach touch animation withthe DerivedOn command as the object’s action. When the object istouched, derived tag processing starts.• For the Login Macro in the RSView User Accounts editor, specify the DerivedOn command, or a macro that contains the command.• For the Startup command in the Display Settings Behavior tab, specify the DerivedOn command, or a macro that contains the command.Ways to stop derived tag processingHaving multiple clients stop derived tags processing is not recommended. Do this inspecial cases only, for example, for application maintenance.Distributed and stand-alone applications• To shut down all the components that are running on the HMI server, including allderived tag components, stop the components running on the HMI server manually.For details about stopping an HMI server’s components manually in distributedapplications, see page 27-9 and in stand-alone applications, see page 28-4.• To stop a single derived tag component, use one of these methods:• In the Macros editor, create a macro that contains the command, DerivedOff. In the HMI Server Properties dialog, click the Components tab,select the On shutdown macro check box, and then specify the macro. Derivedtags processing will stop when the HMI server shuts down.10-5