Overlay Screen (Terminal)

Overlay Screen

  • Overlays the current screen with the designated screen.
  • Is a terminal screen.

Configure the action as follows.

1 Action type
2 Screen name
3 Use Expression
4 Base project
5 Confirmed
6 Variables
1 Action type

Select Overlay screen.

2 Screen name

Name of the CimView screen that will overlay the current screen when the action is triggered.

Default Blank CimView users specify the screen that will overlay the current screen.
3 Use Expression

When selected, Use expression displays options to assign the name of the screen through an expression.

Default Clear You can browse for the screen to be accessed.
4 Base project

A project name in the Base project field to qualify unqualified points.

Note: If the project is running during configuration all currently available projects are listed in the Base project drop down list. Any of the listed projects can be selected or another can be entered.
Default Blank Points are not associated with a project.
5 Confirmed

When checked, Confirmed requires confirmation at runtime.

A message box will display before the action occurs requesting confirmation to proceed.

Default Clear Confirmation is not required.
6 Variables

Opens an Initial Variable Values dialog box. The overlay screen can take ownership of the variables listed in the dialog box.

The screen takes ownership of:

A Variable

Enter inputs that are:

  • Qualified variables with the objects that have the specified names.

    If there are no objects with names that match a qualified variable object name, that variable is disregarded.

  • Unqualified variables.
B Value
Enter a value or an expression to be assigned to a variable at run time.
C Evaluate
Select this check box to evaluate an expression and assign the value to a variable at run time.
D Send public variable values
Select this check box to set the values of screen level variables to variables with the same name in the target screen.

Example

TANK1 \Start is a qualified variable

Where

TANK1 is the object name.

Start is the variable.

v3 is an unqualified variable.