Inductive Automation Blog

Exchange Resource Showcase

We'll be digging into some of the new Exchange resources that can improve everyone's projects. We'll show off some of the latest contributions, the challenge winners, and a number of the build-a-thon resources. Al always, we'll have an open Q&A as part of the time, so please bring your questions.

New Features: Perspective Pipe Drawing and Tooltips

Check out the new Ignition 8.1.10 features that were just released. We'll be showing off the both pipe drawing and the new tooltip functionality. As always, please bring your questions for our open Q&A, as we'll be dedicating the last part of the meeting to answering engineering questions.

Perspective Component SDK Deep Dive & Ignition 8.1 Updates

In this session, we will dig deeper into building components for Perspective using the SDK. We will show how to define properties, variants, and custom event handlers. We will also show the latest versions of Ignition 8.1 and an update on Ignition's Docker image. We will end with open Q&A.

Perspective Map Component & License Portal Updates

In this session, we will dig deeper into Perspective's Map component and understand how layers work. We will also discuss the recent License Portal updates and what that means to you. Of course we will end with open Q&A.

Gateway Scheduled Scripts & Exchange Highlights

Learn about features in 8.1.7, the new Gateway Scheduled Scripts and things to avoid, what happened to 8.1.6, and get an overview of recent Exchange resources. Followed by an open Q&A.

Ignition 8.1 Updates & Server Sizing Guide

Learn about the recent updates with Ignition 8.1. Review the new Ignition Server Sizing and Architecture guide. Talk about 7.9 LTS. Open Q&A.

Ignition Historian

A deeper dive into historian will be provided, including a review of the recent guidance document, benchmarks, and practical architecture for large scale data storage. Additionally, this is set up as an open Q&A, so bring your questions from any topic.

How to Optimize the Performance of Ignition

In this session, we are going to discuss the different optimization strategies for Ignition. It is important to fully understand everything that an Ignition server is executing in order to find ways to increase the performance and allow for more scalability. We will also discuss any open questions.

Python Deep Dive

If you've ever wondered what's behind the scenes in Ignition, or you're hoping to use external libraries or Python's package management through pip with Ignition, you won't want to miss this. We'll cover Jython, Python 2.7 and 3, options for running Python 3 code, external library and site-packages support, and more.

Perspective Security & Module Development

We are going to cover 2 major topics in this session: automated renewal of SSL certificates using Let's Encrypt and adding custom components to Perspective using the SDK. The plan is to give an overview so you know how to get started.