Often when making mimics, we want to have something which is coloured and styled the same as an existing Alarm Severity, i.e. we will want a symbol which represents an alarm condition that would be the colour of the High Severity, and would blink like the High Severity, etc etc.   At the moment we have to manually configure items in the database, or have something which automatically retrieves these from an SQL query on the CSeverity table... but this is a bit horrible.   What would be nice is if there was a set of OPC properties related to each of the configured Alarm Severities, perhaps something like a #Severities.{Severity Description}.Foreground... etc for each of the style items. ... View more

We often don't want the geospatial map to be the only view. It would be good if it was possible to embed such a map within an existing mimic. ... View more

The geospatial maps are good, but they could be much better.   One such request would be if the icons could be customised so that they aren't just picked from a list of triangle, square, diamond.. and then a circle..   It should be possible to specify any Unicode character, OR an SVG icon to be provided, and this should be possible to animate (as an index into a map icon table object perhaps) via the map query (i.e. so that if a pump is running we can use a certain icon vs if it's not).  ... View more

I'd like to see some options like Align left, align right, align top, align bottom when building mimics.    To take it to the max, think of PowerPoint and how when resizing or dragging it'll do some calculations and tell you where the even distance between objects would be and also indicate when resizing when you've reached the border of an object on the same layer.    And for the folks who love to resize things and never make them the same size, multi select --> make same size.  I cannot tell you how much this one triggers me.  Folks will use the same embed, resize them independently and nothing is the same.  Then when they align them, half of them don't snap to the grid because they decided to hold alt when resizing.   Make same size --> align left.    I can't tell you how elated I and many others would be for such a simple thing. ... View more

Although the Product has great tools to build templates/displays and Objects and our Partners/SI - use such facilities to build their at the project level  -  as in O&G there are some recommended practices for HMI Displays (API 1165 Recommended Practice for Pipeline SCADA Displays)  - that impacts how the displays should be implemented, it would be great for the SI/Partners and SE entities to have such ''standard"' object library available. If not out of the box on the Product at least have such Partners load/offer theirs in the Exchange.  ... View more

I've been thinking about sparklines as seen in other software packages and how to recreate them within Geo SCADA without taxing the system.  I can easily mock up an embed that has the last X minutes of data in a sparkline type object, but the issue with a fixed embed becomes "what if the user wants to see 1hr and X ticks in that hour?".  The flexibility, at least in my head, isn't there with a fixed object since it'll have a defined number of ticks.  Maybe I just have to think outside of the box a bit more to get it flexible to handle time and ticks as a parameter.   We can embed a trend with a transparent background, but that's not really a good solution either and would require a trend to be built for pretty much every single point we'd want this on.   Sparklines on a tank or inlet/outlet/critical pressure would be a great addition.  ... View more

The basic idea is to be able to access the standard control method dialogue from a VB Script.  This is not currently possible.  There's a forum post about it here: https://community.exchange.se.com/t5/Geo-SCADA-Expert-Forum/Native-Control-Dialogue/m-p/235285#M1704     ... View more

I think it would be pretty neat to be able to have the user define "quadrants" within a screen.  You can say something like the top quadrant of the screen is for navigation, bottom left is X, bottom middle is Y, bottom right is Z.  I've seen this implemented well in other products.  This, as an option, would be cool to have.  We can already sort of define them with script, but the issue is that if you open something in a "quadrant" it'll open as a popup rather than docked in that screen.    Since ViewX now supports embedding tabs side by side, overhead/underhead, and such, I feel like this would be a rather simple thing to do.  I can see the navigation functions like app.navigateonhead being extended to accept a quadrant.   ex:  app.navigateonhead 1:3,link   Where 1 is head 1, 3 is quadrant 3.    I'd still like the default state to be free-roam, but to allow the end user to define the quadrants if they so choose.  ... View more

GPL libraries brings a great tool for standardization within development. As the new SCADAPack X70 range supports the Unity Pro Logic engine, it would be great if these libraries can be created for GeoSCADA as well as SCADAPack X70's. This will allow for implementation of tested and validated function blocks to be implemented on the SCADAPack and linked to GeoSCADA ... View more

In addition to the existing "Open As Inset" opening mode for a Mimic, it would be great if in Geo SCADA Expert, at least in ViewX, we could have a new opening mode "Open As A Modal Window", as it is implemented in many other SCADA softwares since a long time.   By "modal window" I mean the following basic behavior : as long as the Mimic is opened, the user can not interact with the backward mimic (clicking on buttons, hyperlinks, context menus...) , he must first close the Mimic to get the focus back to the parent mimic from which it had been opened.   For example, same behaviour as when you display the ViewX "About Box" from the ViewX menu "File -> Help -> About"   I've been waiting for this feature to be added to the ClearSCADA roadmap since several years and in some projects I've been forced to use workarounds based on layers and "PickDisabled" animations to reproduce a pseudo-modal behaviour, but not possible to move the pseudo-modal window as it was a fixed layer displyed on top of the background layer of the same mimic 😉   I hope you will retain this feature for future release of Geo SCADA Expert !   David ... View more

Many systems (should) link the appropriate Alarm Points (Low, Low-Low, High, High-High, etc.) operators configure within the HMI/SCADA software (Geo SCADA) to the registers within the controller (PLC).   Example: We have a point with a value between 0-100 High-High: 95 High: 90 Low: 10 Low-Low: 5 These limits would then be linked, bi-directionally, to the appropriate registers in the controller. Modbus in this example. Point.HighLmtStd <> Controller.400100   In the interim we have created a logic script to move the Geo SCADA config values to the created analog output points. This is a single direction and works for "simple" systems, but others with local HMI that allows for these and even some dynamic set point algorithms (avg. deviations...) are not connectable in these manner. The unfortunate reality is that this significantly increases the Point usage. Perhaps give us a "freebie" that can link within the Advanced drivers point config. That would definitely be appreciated! ... View more

A few of our customers have web applications that are closely related to their SCADA systems, but are still separate. This is for things like 'Asset Management Systems', 'Service Request / Work Order Ticket Systems', 'Alarm Analysis Systems', 'Alarm Instruction Systems'   At the moment we are launching an external web browser session for each of these, but many of them would be 'nicer' if they remained within the SCADA environment entirely, and didn't disrupt the display of SCADA data (i.e. by popping up over SCADA data, or by taking over the entire SCADA display window).   It would be ideal if it was possible to have an embedded display, within an existing Mimic, that could show a web page, with the URL of the webpage able to be driven by an animation / script action, OR by action within the embedded web page (i.e. if just clicking a hyperlink within the web page). ... View more

With many utilities moving towards ASM deployments, and the general ASM guidance to avoid popups, we need to have pre-defined sections of the page able to swap between showing different detail information for various devices.   This is currently done using embedded mimics and layer visibilities.  However results in having lots of points on subscribe, and results in 'heavy mimics' which are expensive for ViewX to load, display and animate.   What we'd like is the ability to have a ViewPort that would essentially be the same as an embedded mimic, but where we could programmatically (i.e. via a Pick Animation / script method) change which mimic the ViewPort references.   So perhaps by default it displays the content for Pump 1.  When Pump 2 is clicked, then the ViewPort is changed so that it now displays the detail information for Pump 2.  And the points that were on subscribe for Pump 1 can now be unsubscribed (and obviously no longer feed into any animations). ... View more

We've recently started to deploy GeoSCADA for use by clients on devices other than PCs. In particular devices like iPads, and other tablets, plus mobile phones.   The Microsoft Remote Desktop Services platforms make the deployment of this, and the presentation of the ViewX applications entirely seamless.  However, this has revealed some issues with the control surface area provided for many operation critical controls.   An example of this is the close buttons for overlay windows (like the maps, or tabs). When using ViewX on a tablet, it is very difficult to accurately press on this cross with a finger.   It would be nice if there was a setting within ViewX that could adjust the size of these inbuilt controls to make them 'finger safe' (i.e to make them 2x or 3x the size). ... View more

I think it would be beneficial to add the ability to the FBD Edit window to sort the Variables in the top Variable pane by Ascending or Descending: Name, Type, or Tag.   Also it would be very helpful if you could right click on a Direct Variable in the Variables pane and "Locate In Database" in both Design Mode and Run Mode.   A nice bonus would be if there was a way to also right click on a Variable and have a "Locate in Logic" that highlights each location where the variable is used in the FBD Edit window.  ... View more