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VTS Tutorial Lessons

The lessons in this tutorial are intended to introduce you to the VTS application development tools.  At the beginning of each lesson is a list of the objectives, an overview of what the lesson entails, and an estimate of the amount of time the lesson will take to complete. Each of the lessons consists of a series of exercises that are intended to be completed as a set; however, you need not complete all of the lessons themselves in one sitting. Again, feel free to work at your leisure.

Every exercise within a lesson takes up where the last exercise left off, and assumes that the dialogs that were open in the last exercise remain open.

If you stop the tutorial application at any point and then restart during a later session, some of the dialogs you see will display their default values and will therefore vary slightly from those in the following pages. This does not affect the steps provided in each of the exercises; resume the development of your tutorial application, following the provided instructions carefully.

If applicable, at the end of each lesson is an image of how your application should appear once all the exercises have been successfully completed. Also, to help you review, each lesson ends with list of the skills and knowledge presented.

Note: Should you need additional help with any dialog while you are working with the tutorial application, simply click the F1 function key on your keyboard while the dialog is open. A help topic with information about the dialog will open to assist you.

Topics in this section:

Lesson 1: Starting a New Application

Lesson 2: Establishing Communications

Lesson 3: Working with Analog Input Tags

Lesson 4: Working with Graphic Objects

Lesson 5: Working with Digital Input Tags

Lesson 6: Enhancing the Operator Interface

Lesson 7: Working with Font Style Tags and Text

Lesson 8: Working with Digital Output Tags

Lesson 9: Working with Controls

Lesson 10: Application Navigation

Lesson 11: Completing the Application

Lesson 12: Logging and Plotting Tag Data

Lesson 13: Alarms and Alarm Management

Lesson 14: Generating Reports

Lesson 15: Application Security

Lesson 16: Commissioning the Application

Lesson 17: Backup the Application

Lesson 18: Customizing VTS

Tutorial Summary