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The applications you develop using FactoryStudio are organized into projects. The following sections explain projects and describe how to create and manage them:

  • What is a Project? explains briefly the basic concepts of FactoryStudio projects
  • Viewing Projects discusses opening projects and viewing their information in the FactoryStudio display
  • Creating and Editing Projects shows how to create a new project and how to configure or edit an existing project
  • Finding Projects discusses how to locate projects stored on your local computer or on a remote server
  • Managing Remote Projects describes how to work with projects that are stored remotely
  • Running Projects overviews how to run a project for testing or production
  • Upgrading Projects explains how to upgrade a project to a new version

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What is a Project?

FactoryStudio is a powerful platform to develop and deliver applications managing real-time information, providing a complete set of modules in a unified and intuitive engineering user interface. It includes a real-time tag database, assets and templates, alarms and events, historian, recipes, SQL queries and database access, reporting, .NET languages scripting, client and server OPC, WCF and native industry protocols, dynamic graphics created on WPF and accessible from desktops, remote smart clients, web browser and native iOS clients on iPads and iPhones. 

Applications built with FactoryStudio are organized into projects. A Project stores all the configuration information for a specific application. This project information is stored in a single file with extension .tproj.

The following sections explain more about projects and how to work with them. 



Viewing Projects

When you start FactoryStudio, the main page shows a list of projects. The projects presented in the list are defined according to the selected Project Server (defined at the Server tab) and the selected search paths (defined with the Find Project button).

If the list is not showing any projects, it is because the system was unable to locate project files on the selected server and search paths. Use “Find Projects” to search for projects in the local computer, use the “Server” tab to connect to a new Project Server, or use “Create Project” to create a new project. If any error has occurred while loading projects, a log will be created in "C:\Users\Public\Documents\TLocalSettings\".

Using the dropdown list you can select 3-D View, Card View or Table View for different views of your project list.

For a quick summary of information about a project, click the symbol in the lower-right corner to rotate the selected project icon showing the Project Information. See "Creating and Editing Projects" below for details about the project metadata information.



The projects that show in this list are all the ones found in the search paths. These can be defined using the “Find Projects” command. See "Finding Projects" below.

Projects located on remote computers or on cloud servers can also be managed using the server configuration. See "Managing Remote Projects" below.

Projects retain information about the version of FactoryStudio that was used to create the project originally. Unless you upgrade the project to a newer version, the project always opens using the version with which it was created. For more information, see "Upgrading Projects" below.




Creating and Editing Projects

To create a project:

  • Click New Project. The New Project page displays.

  • Enter or select the information, as needed.

Field

Description

Name

Enter a name for the project.

Description

(Optional) Enter a description of the project.

Location

Click the ... button to select or create a new folder for the project

Product Family

Depending on your FactoryStudio license, you may have options here to build applications for a specific version of FactoryStudio. 










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