In the same way that it's possible to add a custom menu option to the Alarm Banner context sensitive menu, an useful feature to GeoScada would be execute an specific script directly in the map by adding a menu option to the map context sensitive menu.    The feature is included in the Alarm Banner by using the Global Script and the sentence "AlarmBanner.AddMenuItem"   It's a simple idea but it would potentialize the use of the maps feature into the Scada   Please let me know if this short idea could be implemented soon.    Thanks ... View more

Currently the highest Alarm Severity and Alarm State will inherit upwards through their parent groups but these values have no effect on the group Foreground color. I think it would be extremely convenient to either have Foreground color and Blink reflect the groups alarm state and severity or have another field all together that reflects it (something like 'CurrentAlarmColor').   For example, we have a template that contains multiple discrete alarms and a few analog alarms but we only have a simple analog mimic to show the current process value. We would like the border to reflect the alarm severity and state via color and blinking. In order to achieve this currently, we would either need to check the foreground color of all alarming points (not fun), or use the severity of the parent group in a nested IIF statement to decide a color. The issue with the latter is not having access to the configured alarm severity colors so you would now need to make your own colors (not ideal). I know a suggestion has been made for the latter and I hope it is approved but I would still love to be able to assign the border a color of ".Foreground" and a blink of ".Blink" and call it a day.  This could also be used when dividing the plant areas into groups and wanting the menu buttons to light up with the highest severity alarm in that area.   Let me know if anyone has any better suggestions! Would love to hear some feedback. ... 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

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 use embedded trends to display time series data to users, since having a full window trend often results in obstruction of other information. However, it seems that when embedding trends, they lose lots of the capabilities that the trend windows themselves have. The trend window feels quite natural to pan / zoom around, the embedded trend feels very rigid and fixed.  And to change the ranges it seems to always require several clicks to display a context menu and then select an option (like Next Interval / Previous Interval, Zoom In, Zoom Out, Scaling...)   It would be nice if there was a tick box or similar which could allow an embedded trend to behave more like a normal trend window, with scroll wheel / click & drag etc. ... View more

This has been requested for quite a while. When using Windows Authentication, it would be great if ViewX were able to use the currently logged in Windows Authentication credentials to also log into GeoSCADA.   It could still require a username for critical control actions etc (based on the point / user account setting), but removing the first logon requirement would be very handy. ... View more

Another quality of life item for Geo SCADA Expert ViewX.   We have a few customers with multiple systems that ViewX connects to. It appears that when these systems are configured to have auto logoff on idle, that even if these are all configured the same (i.e. 15 minutes) that when the logoff occurs the operators have to individually log into each system.   As we co-ordinate usernames/passwords, this means that they often have to enter the same username/password up to 5 times in a row.  This results in complaints. What would be good is if it could consolidate multi systems to log back in with just a single username/password prompt (similar to what is available when manually logging into ViewX). ... 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

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

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

There currently is no mechanism for source control and versioning of code such as ST programs and mimic scripts built in to Geo SCADA Expert. The antiquated idea of flower boxing a hand typed version history in comments at the top of the file is old hat to say the least,   e.g. (******************************************************************************************************************* <Program Title> ******************************************************************************************************************** Description ******************************************************************************************************************** <Program Description> ******************************************************************************************************************** Version ******************************************************************************************************************** <n.n.n> ******************************************************************************************************************** Comment ******************************************************************************************************************** <Comment giving overview for last change> ******************************************************************************************************************** Referenced Logic ******************************************************************************************************************** <Any references using database full names or None> ******************************************************************************************************************** Dependant Logic ******************************************************************************************************************** <Any references using database full names or None> ********************************************************************************************************************   The best option, in my humble opinion, would be to build Git source control directly into Geo SCADA Expert for manging text based code such as ST and mimic scripts by way of example. ... View more

This issue appears to keep causing me pain when trying to develop low point count systems.   I have a value in the PLC/RTU which represents the value of something counted up for today (i.e. starts, runtime, cats, etc). I then have a set of Accumulators which I'd like to use to perform a delta on these values and generate additional 'totalisers', i.e. weekly, monthly, yearly, alltime etc. The issue is that since we typically deploy these on telemetry networks, and use DNP3 for the points, we would like to use the historical data for the accumulators, hence we have the accumulators set to NOT have the Continuous tick box ticked.   This then has the issue of being unable to perform a reset event. I think it should be possible for Geo SCADA Expert to allow resets for non-continuous totalisers.   When the reset is triggered, the PrevTotal... would take the current values, and the CurrentTotal.. would all be reset to 0. In addition, a time would be logged as to when the reset happened.   When new data comes in from the field, if it is not time stamped, then it contributes to the CurrentTotal.. end of story. If it is time stamped and it has a time prior to the reset time, then it contributes to the PrevTotal.. and if it is at/greater than the reset time it contributes to the CurrentTotal.   It might not be 100% accurate in absolutely every situation (i.e. clock drift between RTU etc), but this is typically not critically important.  And it would provide much greater flexibility for alternative reporting periods than are currently available. ... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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