Easy way to Duplicate panels??

[rekholm]

More about my new system.. I am building panels for each site. I have a grid laid out and I have the look and feel I want it to have. It uses Puchbuttons to activate each panel (1 panel per site). Fortunatley.. I think... all of my sites are faily identical. The monitoring points on the RTU's are going to match up pretty well from site to site.

So my question is... Is there any easy way to make all of the panles look the same?? I've already figured out how to confirm each item on the panel is at the same X and Y Coordinates as the last panel. But that takes a lot of time. Right now, we have about 30 sites, and are going to expand to about 40 - 50 within the next 5 - 7 years, I am expecting. So.. Creating a panel with 16 I/O's + a few graphics + a few labels = about 20 - 30 minutes per panel!

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

[Mike@DTSI]

You can create each panel and make them Aggregate objects.

Another way is to copy the source from the LKS file and use notepad (text editor) to make a template, just replace "Panel1" with "Panel2".

Good luck
Mike

[rekholm]

It looks to me like if I use an aggregate, I have to create each panel as a process? Is that correct?

If so, I would like to have a total of 2 processes.. One for the server, and another for the Client. This way, I think I can keep it simple enough for our users. Unless there is a better reason to separate them, i'm up for suggestions..

[Ryan.S]

You can edit the source file directly.

First create a panel in another process. This can be a template for future use. Find and replace the object names and datamembers in the template and then copy the codes to your server process.

In this way, you can create multiple identical panels.