Improvements to Citect 2018 and beyond

  • Make Valve Composite Genie have the ability to mirror the valve graphic (Rotated 180degrres)
  • Make the name of the valve to be offset a little more so that a valve picture can be put in below the block valve.
  • Have all items the ability to move the control mode around like the label and status indicators
  • The ability to change the colour palate in design and all corresponding items using that colour are changed, or have a design element that you set the colour of items and it dynamically changes the colour.
  • The ability to change the page title from the visualisation screen in studio.
  • The ability to alternate dynamically between the tag name and display name of items shown in the alarm and trend tree views
  • On multi item devices (Pumps) show the status indicator above the eq status
  • Make the SA template have the same alarm sounds as CSV, Tab template. Configurable in the Citect.ini file and not by a cicide file.
  • In the analog composite genie have the ability to be able to turn on and off the alarm indicators on the bar graph.
  • Better customisation of how the page looks Colours of header, button backgrounds, background, etc
  • Stop the ability to enter information into keyboard enterable items if not selected. Happens if you select one item and
  • Filtering of alarms in the Historical alarms takes up to 10 seconds to show any movement. It would be an idea to give a rotating circle on the page to indicate it is doing something.
  • In the alarm pages, Shelved alarm page , Historical page it would be nice if it remembered the layout and column sizing and not revert back to the default sizing.
  • In regards to the interlocks it would be nice to be able to select how they are displayed either newest first of newest last, At present is is newest last, If you have a long list of interlocks you have to scroll to the bottom to see the active ones ( not good)

 

Bigger wish list

  • Vector Graphics
  • SQL Database for trends and alarms
  • Equipment builder integrated into studio
  • Composite genie XML file creator software (Either integrated or external to Studio)

Added Items

  • Changing the information bar/interlock order does not change the padlock position. It seems that the safety padlock is locked to position 1 and Process is locked to position 2. It should follow the item.
  • The interlock list in the information bar seems to have an auto-scroll with mouseover feature on large lists. This is good but it seems to work anywhere the mouse goes and does not lose focus. Would be good for this feature to lose focus when it goes outside of the interlock area
  • Would be good to be able to click anywhere (with no equipment) on the screen to lose focus for the faceplate so it can become blank.
  • Thanks for your feedback and suggestions Tom. You've got some good suggestions there that are not already in our backlog.

    I'm not sure I quite understand the Multi-item devices feedback. Do you want the status indicator (Purple Circle bound to EqStatus) between the drive symbol and the meo blocks (bound to RunStatus)?

    For the Analog Composite genie, turn on/off alarm indicators on the bar graph. Are you talking about the XY Bar Graph? And then being able to see individual Alarm Indicators per bar?

    For the treeview display/equip name toggle, you should be able to put your own button on the page and call: DspSetMetadataFromNameRelative(nTreeviewAN, ".Properties", "UseDisplayNames", bToggle). You may need to refresh the tree afterwards. Probably call Treeview_Locate on the current item.

    In regard to Vector Graphics, what aspect do you want improved? Citect's graphics engine is already vector based. 2018 demonstrates this more than ever as all the library objects are vector, including the workspace content, which allows it to scale without going "bitmap blocky". The only "bitmap" elements left are the Status Indicator symbols (purple circle) and Run Status (meo blocks).
  • Brad,

    The multi device feedback is the Item (eg Drive) that uses the MEO bound to the EQ Status

    The Analog Composite is for the lines on the bar graph (temp) as they are always shown and it would be good to hide them if they are not used (Use tag)

    For the names in the tree view I will try it, but it would be nice to have this as standard in the alarm and Trend pages.
  • I have added some more items to the improvement list "Added Items"