Alarm Event properties provide a lot of information regarding an alarm event and fall into several categories:

Windows are the key to your HMI/SCADA application. A window is the basic building block of any Vision project, where each window can contain any number of components that can display Tag values, run scripts, write values to the database, and accept user input. When you publish your project, these windows

Report Designer Interface

A Quality Code represents a level of confidence in a value. Quality codes are made up of a level (Good, Bad, Error, or Uncertain) and an integer. If a value's quality is not Good, the value generally should not be trusted.

The Reporting Module comes with some additional components that can be used with the Vision components to help you configure and filter your data, and view reports. These extra components are found in the Component Palette under Reporting: Report Viewer, Row Selector, Column Selector, File Explorer,

Each Perspective component has a unique set of properties that can be set and modified within the Perspective Property Editor. A component property is simply a named variable with a distinct type that affects something about the component's behavior or appearance, such as size, color, name, visibility

Binding Properties to the Tag Historian

Alarms are conditions that are evaluated when the value of the Tag changes. When the condition becomes true, the alarm is said to be active. When it becomes false, the alarm is said to be clear. Alarms may also be acknowledged. This flags the alarm in Ignition so the acknowledgement state of each alarm

The Alarm Status Table allows you to view currently active alarm events in the system

The Programmable Device Simulator allows you to add simulator devices that act as if they are connected to a real device. It allows users to read and write Tags without any network or PLC connection.