Solutions Manager
Introduction
The platform is designed for real-time data applications, structured into Solutions. A Solution includes configurations for various functional Modules, such as Tag definitions, Alarms, Communication, and Displays.
The Solutions Manager is the central hub for organizing and managing your Solutions.
It enables you to create, open, and edit Solutions locally or remotely, using the Designer for configurations. Additionally, you can run Solutions from your computer or remote devices, facilitating efficient workflow and productivity
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Key Concepts and Terms
Understanding the Solutions Manager
The Solutions Manager interface is the main hub for managing and organizing your Solutions. From this interface, you can create new Solutions, edit existing ones, and and run Solutions located in your computer or remote ones.
Some very unique and powerful features about Solution management tools include:
The platform creates a file for each Solution. All configuration, including tag definition, displays drawing, images and report templates is stored in a single file — an encrypted SQL database with extension .dbsln — for easy management.
You can open multiple Solutions at the same time or allow multiple engineers to work on each Solution.
In order to enable multiple users to work concurrently on the same Solution, follow the procedure described at the section Multi-User Collaboration.
Server Information
The Solution Manager allows access to the Server Information.It presents information about the computer and folders based on the list of Solutions built. It includes the Solution Location, Connected Server Information, Local Computer Management, and Local Search Folders. Clicking Server Information allows managing the Solution Server Service settings.
See the Serve Information for detailed information.
License Information
The Solution Manager allows access to the License Information. It enables managing licenses and requesting by generating a softkey and activating it. There are flexible licensing options for each business's needs.
See Licensing and Activating for more information.
Product Information
The Solution Manager allows access to the Product Information. It presents information about the installed product and version. Also, it allows checking Communication Protocols and AddOns enabled for the product.
Solution Selector
Solution Selector refer to the main area on the Solution Manager, where you can execute many commands and actions around solutions.
The middle box is called Solution List and shows a list of Solutions on your computer or on a remote computer set previously. Click Refresh to update the Solutions list. Each item in the Solution list is a complete Solution with the configuration for an application.
On the top right corner, you can select List, Cards or Table view.
Each image below is an independent Solution. The image used for the Solution preview is the contents of the display named MainPage in that Solution.
List View
Card View
Table View
Creating Solutions
Solution Configuration File
The configuration for the entire Solution, is stored in single file with the extension .dbsln. That file is an encrypted embedded SQL database, with the configuration tables of the various modules, like Tags, Alarms, Scripts and Displays.
You can move, rename, duplicate, backup and restore the Solution files, working directly on the computer folders, as you'd do with any other file.
The moving or adding Solution files directly on the computer folders, you need to press the Refresh button, so the list will update the content of the folders.
Other files extension for Solutions are created, when using the Publish feature, as described in the chapter Runtime - Build and Publish.
Working With Solutions
Advanced Solutions Topics
Solution Workflows
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Advanced Solutions
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