FT View substitutions

After adding a

FactoryTalk View

(

FT View

) section to the

Library Content

pane, configure substitutions and symbols for the objects.

Substitutions are used to quickly update

FactoryTalk View

objects with different text and other display objects as needed by an application. Substitutions can be created from the

Substitutions

property pane or from a symbol property pane. When substitutions are created from the symbol property pane, they are applied to that element immediately. When a substitution is created in the

Substitutions

property pane, it is not applied to an element immediately, but is available to be applied when the symbol is updated.

The

Substitutions

node under the

FT View

node in the

Library Content

pane displays a list of substitutions in the

Properties

pane. Substitutions can be added, edited, deleted or moved up and down from this view. None of these changes will be implemented into the displays though until they are updated.

Substitutions configured in

Library Object Manager

are not stored as decoration to the original data, but are applied into the original data. This means adding, removing, or editing a substitution can result in erroneous changes to the original data.