Project Setup – Changed Parameters

Project Setup lets you quickly set up a variety of project information. The following parameters are organized according to the Project Setup page that lets you edit them.

System Definition screen

Project Setup Setting

Section

Parameter Name

Resolution

MultiMonitors

Resolution

Style

MultiMonitors

IsHighContrast

Servers

Project Setup Setting

Section

Parameter Name

Advanced Reports Server

Applications

Hostname

Menus in Project Setup

For each page selected in Project Setup (Step 5), the menu configuration items are added.

Project Setup Setting

Section

Parameter Name

Monitor Count

MultiMonitors

Monitors

Monitor 1 Landing Page

MultiMonitors

StartupPage1

Monitor 2 Landing Page

MultiMonitors

StartupPage2

Monitor 3 Landing Page

MultiMonitors

StartupPage3

Monitor 4 Landing Page

MultiMonitors

StartupPage4

Monitor 5 Landing Page

MultiMonitors

StartupPage5

Monitor 6 Landing Page

MultiMonitors

StartupPage6

Monitor 7 Landing Page

MultiMonitors

StartupPage7

Monitor 8 Landing Page

MultiMonitors

StartupPage8

In addition to parameters, you can do the following:

Servers, Network Addresses, and Computers

Project Setup Location

Item

Step 3: Servers

Add I/O, Alarm, Trend, and Report Servers, primary and redundant

NOTE: Clusters are also added here.

Step 3: Servers

Add network addresses, primary and redundant

Step 5: Display: Menus and Display Pages

Create HMI menus: setup for graphics pages

Step 5: Display: Menus and Display Pages

Determine runtime landing pages at various monitors used in the project

Step 7: Device Profiles

Choose device profiles

Step 8: Devices

Add I/O devices; including equipment, ports, boards, I/O devices, variable tags, alarm tags, trend tags

Step 9: Finish

Compile and run the completed project

Final - Compile and Run Project

When you click Compile and Run Project on the final screen, the following changes are made to the citect.ini file:

Section

Parameter Name

Value

Lan

TCPIP

1

CTEDIT

Run

(Project's path)

CTEDIT

LASTDATABASE

(Project's name)

CTEDIT

LASTDATABASEPATH

(Project's path)

Client

ComputerRole

0

Client

FullLicense

0

Client

PartOfTrustedNetwork

1

Client

Clusters

(Comma separated list of available clusters for the project)

CtSetup

CustomSetup

0

Internet

Server

0

Alarm

SavePrimary

(Project's path)

Report

InhibitEvent

1

Report

RunStandby

1

Trend

InhibitEvent

1

Event

Server

0

Win

AltSpace

1

Server

AutoLoginMode

1

Server

EWSAllowAnonymousAccess

0

(ServerType.Cluster.ServerName)

StartupCode

PLS_StartAdvOneLine()

*This is set on one IO server on each server machine in the project

(ServerType.Cluster.ServerName)

Clusters

(Comma separated list of available clusters for the project)