Your VTS application is made up of a series of application pages that are viewed in the Display Manager. These pages enable you to monitor and control essential processes and information by providing you with accurate data on your computer screen.
Review: Application pages are those custom pages that represent data associated with the equipment processes in your system. Additionally, most VTS applications are configured with system pages such as the Historical Data Viewer page that allows you to view data in the form of graphs (see The Historical Data Viewer Page), an Alarm page that allows you to monitor and react to alarm conditions or events (see The Alarm Page and Alarms), and a Reports page that enables you to generate reports on the data for the equipment in your system (see The Reports Page). Other VTS system pages may also be present, depending on the design of your application.
The pages in your application run in real-time. This means that when a change occurs in the equipment, it is automatically and immediately reported by VTS on your screen.
Each application page displays and provides access to specific processes and equipment. Data is presented to you in different formats, such as lists, dialogs, or bitmaps. Monitoring and input of data from the equipment to the application is portrayed using a series of different notifications, including changing graphics, colors, symbols, and numbers. Control and output of data from the application to the equipment is achieved using buttons, shortcut menus, and data entry fields. These application elements can be interacted with at the click of the mouse, giving you control over processes applying specifically to the selected object, or allowing you to view more detailed information associated with the selected object.
This guide is intended to provide you with specific instructions and descriptions to help you interact with the elements that appear on the application pages of your VTS application.
One of the principal keys that should help you understand the functioning of your VTS application is the manner in which the objects of your physical system are represented in your VTS application. The objects of your physical system are represented using tags.