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This article explains a very convenient way to customize the color of header banner a project using GPL SA workspace without changing the library and with minimal engineering effort.

In some complex projects the supervision pages are very crowded, and labels can overlap other objects and for the operator is not convenient to have to hide the labels at every supervision startup.   This article explains a very convenient way to customize the supervision project to hide labels at startup and still allowing the operator to show the labels again during the runtime if needed.

In 2019 EcoStruxure Process Expert was released with a new General Purpose Library for Situational Awareness – GPL SA - as its default library. This is a new library and while functionally like previous General Purpose Library – GPL Classic - there is no direct upgrade between the libraries. Instead the existing library is maintained and supported for existing customers. If projects or customers want to leverage the new general process library, they must migrate their project between the libraries and re-draw their graphics screens...

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Issue This document outline some of the user experience with respect to supervision project performance while using EcoStruxure Hybrid DCS. Use cases are like slow page update, alarm / trend & communication errors when dealing with large scale projects. There are multiple factors which effects supervision performance, however, can be finetuned with user experience. Majority of them are covered in this document to address such scenario. This gives better understanding and help user to improve supervision performance. Resolution Enter resolution. Disclaimer The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Schneider Electric.  

This knowledge base document do not intend to explain how to create a EPE supervision project but to give best practice advises on how to customize a EPE project based on General Purpose Library – GPL Situational Awareness.   Software versions used in the kb: EcoStruxure Hybrid DCS 2019. GPL SA R2.   This kb also apply to EcoStruxure Process Expert 2020 and further versions based on GPL SA.   The GPL SA workspace include project is based on Citect Scada Situational Awareness template. The General Purpose Workspace leverage from Citect Scada Parameter Page Logo as show on the picture ...   Keep reading this article to learn how to customize the GPL workspace with customer logo.

This knowledge base is based in a customer support request to recover a database after restoring an old backup without do a proper backup of the current database.

How to Enable Native Citect Scada OPC DA Server on EcoStruxure Process Expert?   In EcoStruxure Process Expert 2019 (former HDCS) and previous versions the communication between the supervision participant Citect Scada and Modicon PAC controllers are handle by OFS – OPC Factory Server. The OFS is an OPC DA Server which is installed in the same server as the EPE operation server(s). Whenever a third-party software needs to collect data from EPE it can be done by connecting to OFS Server in either primary or standby operation server.   This solution using OFS Server as an unique OPC DA Server to interface with other system works fine but some customers standard or customers best practice doesn’t allow other systems to collect data direct from the controllers. These customers prefer third-party software collecting data from the supervision servers. Another motivating force to have an OPC DA server enabled on supervision participant is that some projects could have calculate variables on supervision which does not exist on control project...

This document will guide you how to generate EHDCS application model from high level Functional Description (MS-Excel format) by extending capabilities of PES2Excel2PES software tool.

During runtime, EcoStruxure Hybrid DCS Supervision clients only require graphics, code and communications information to operate successfully. Other configuration information is deployed to an appropriate Operation Server. This means that the Tags, Alarms and Trends configuration changes can be made to a project without the need to restart the Supervision clients ...