General User Interface; The Plant Explorer Workplace Window - ABB IndustrialIT Compact HMI 800 Getting Started

Section 2 Terms and Common Principles
Plant Explorer Workplace
Plant Explorer is the main tool for exploring and building hierarchically structured
models of a plant or a system. It is also used to create and configure the objects and
aspects of these structures. The information about the plant is stored in a single
place, which means that you just have to enter information once.
Plant Explorer Workplace is suitable and recommended for application engineers
who wants to configure an Operator Workplace.

General User Interface

Compact HMI 800 workplaces use the window system provided by Microsoft
Windows. They are designed so as to retain a familiar environment. Plant Explorer
works in a similar way as Windows Explorer regarding for example the following
functions.
• cut, paste, copy
• shortcut tools
• drag-and-drop operations within and between the Workplace panes, see also
Using Drag-and Drop.
• context menu (reached by right-clicking), see Object Context Menu and Aspect
Context Menu.

The Plant Explorer Workplace Window

The Plant Explorer Workplace window is the tool you use when you work with
aspect objects, aspects and structures.
Figure 4
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The Operator Workplace and Plant Explorer Workplace
shows an example of the Plant Explorer window.
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