Hi everyone,
I will start by saying I am pretty new to Ignition and want to make sure I am implementing functionality in the best possible way.
In this case, we have refrigerant detection systems around our building for different test stands and what I'd like is to create a Vision project for each test stand for technicians to monitor the system. Additionally, I would like to create a Perspective project that you can view the status of any stand in the building from. The refrigerants being used will change between tests, and I would like a dropdown to select what refrigerant is being used. Based on the refrigerant, the alarming levels of the system change and those levels will be written to the PLC.
What I'd like to know is how I can implement the ability to add new refrigerants from the perspective project and have it update on the dropdown list for each vision project. My assumption is that I create a template for the dropdown and have the data property bound to a SQL query. Then from the perspective project, when you add a refrigerant it updates in the database with the refrigerant type (what will show in dropdown) and the values that will need to be written to the PLC depending on which is selected. Is this the correct way of going about this?
Thanks!
Matt