National Instruments BridgeVIEW About This Manual

About This Manual

The BridgeVIEW User Manual contains the information you need to get

started with the BridgeVIEW software package. This manual explains the

BridgeVIEW environment, tag configuration, human machine interfaces,

alarms and events, and historical data logging and extraction. This manual

also reviews the concepts of G programming.

Throughout both sections of this manual, there are activities that teach

you what you need to know to build your own virtual instruments, and

ultimately, your own SCADA system. This manual assumes that you

know how to operate your computer and that you are familiar with its

operating system.

This manual is divided into two parts. Part I, BridgeVIEW Concepts,

introduces you to the basic BridgeVIEW concepts, and includes Chapters 1

through 8. Part II, G Tutorial, describes the G programming language, and

how it works within BridgeVIEW, and includes Chapters 9 through 15.

We encourage you to work through all the activities in this manual before

you begin building your applications. You should save all of the VIs you

create with the BridgeVIEW activities in the BridgeVIEW\Activity

directory. To view the VI(s) for an activity that you have not completed

yourself, see the BridgeVIEW\Activity\Solutions directory for the

solutions to the activities from the BridgeVIEW Concepts section of this

manual, and the BridgeVIEW\Activity\Solution directory for the

solutions to the activities in the G Tutorial section of this manual.

Part I, BridgeVIEW Concepts, contains the following chapters.

• Chapter 1, Introduction, describes the unique BridgeVIEW approach

to Human Machine Interface (HMI) and Supervisory Control and

Data Acquisition (SCADA). It also contains system configuration,

installation instructions and basic information that explains how

to start using BridgeVIEW to develop industrial automation

applications.

• Chapter 2, BridgeVIEW Environment, describes the BridgeVIEW

environment. It explains the basic concepts behind G, the