DspSym with Genies

I've never seen that used to display genies but I see the help says it can. I'm wondering if it was meant for a no-substitution genie. If that's the case, you could create the base genie with substitutions, then create a bunch of genies that have the base genie in them and all the substitutions hard coded for a specific piece of equipment.

I always wondered why the Graphics Builder has the option to Disable Genie Forms. Maybe no-sub genies were used more pre-v4?

We use DspSym to display runtime genies to work around a problem Citect/PlantSCADA has with saving multiple lines that have move/resize/rotate animation.  Anything over about 10 on a page takes an exponentially longer time to save the page (e.g. 60 of these lines could take over 2hrs to save the page).

We pass parameters to the genies via metadata; which is written to the genie directly after the DspSym is called.  We never found a way of passing a tag (other than as a tag name in metadata).

We use DspSym to display runtime genies to work around a problem Citect/PlantSCADA has with saving multiple lines that have move/resize/rotate animation.  Anything over about 10 on a page takes an exponentially longer time to save the page (e.g. 60 of these lines could take over 2hrs to save the page).

We pass parameters to the genies via metadata; which is written to the genie directly after the DspSym is called.  We never found a way of passing a tag (other than as a tag name in metadata).