Pages are the screens that make up a VTS or VTScada application. VTS gives you extensive control over the size, location, appearance and behavior of your application pages. (Note: the Programmer's Guide provides reference information for page configuration variables. See: Config.ini SYSTEM Section Variables for Pages).
There is no limit to the number of pages that can be added to an application, therefore you should add as many as are required to create the best possible user interface. To help you get started, you are given one application page, (named "Overview" by default,) as part of every new VTS application.
Application pages can be displayed either full-screen, as a standard Windows page, or as a pop-up window. You can even draw one application page on another, in effect displaying a page within a page. This last feature might be used to display a common control screen as a part of several other application pages.
Pages can be given replaceable parameters that can then be used as a data source for the objects within the page. Each added instance of the page can be given its own set of tags for those parameters. This allows you to create a page that can be reused for a series of similar monitoring or control stations.
Note: If a page has parameters, and if tags have not been selected for those parameters, then any action that displays the page will always result in a dialog box prompting for values. (Shown in the following image).
There is no requirement that a tag or value be provided for every parameters, but any drawing objects that depend on unspecified parameters, will not be shown.
Quick Links: Common Tasks for Pages
Working with Application Pages
Properties of Application Pages
Linking to Pages with the Page Hotbox