Quick Start Guide

Ignition Early Access
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Hello and Welcome to the Ignition 8 Beta. We have created a Quick Start Guide to take you from a fresh install of Ignition through creating a basic navigation structure in a Perspective session or in a Vision Client. The examples outlined in this guide are very simple so you can get started easily.

For some of you this guide will be information you already know. If you are not sure how things work in the new version of Ignition or just want to see a step by step guide to get started, start here:
Quick Start Guide

If you are already familiar with creating Tags, database connections, and opening the Designer, you can start here to jump right into creating a Perspective session.
Creating a Perspective Session

As always, any feedback is appreciated and can help us make our user manual better.

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With Expression tags, there seems to be a new option that wasn’t available before 8.0 called Execution Mode with the options “Event Driven”, “Tag Group” and “Fixed Rate”. It would be great if this was included in the manual :slight_smile:

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Thanks for mentioning it. We aren’t going to talk about the Expression Tags in the Quick start guide, but I’ll make sure we get this information in the Tags section of the User Manual.

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Thanks @Robert.McKenzie. I was actually looking for the 8 manual. I thought I had seen it earlier on the forum. It’s probably not out yet?

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Either of the links above will get you into specific parts of the manual. You can navigate from there to the rest of it.

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Indeed. Which is what I did. But on that manual, if you go down to Tags, you’ll see that only the top part is 8.0 stuff, then it turns into the old tag system of 7.9. But I’m sure the guys will update it in due course. Cheers for pointing that out.

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Yeah absolutely. First we are concentrating on the things that didn’t exist in 7.9 (like perspective), then we will start working on other sections. The Tags section will be getting work shortly.

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