This menu offers all the features for the design of the screen and the management of different panes and layouts. The term "layout" means the individual arrangement of signal monitors, signal selection and status information windows. At program startup, ibaPDA client uses the CurrentLayout.lay configuration file.

Add view

By clicking on this menu item, a submenu opens providing a selection of different display types.

Table Toolbar icons for views

Symbol

Function

Description


Add Trend graph

Adds a new trend graph view. All views on the screen reorganize automatically. Every signal monitor has its own scrolling control, zoom function and X axis.

For more information, please see Trend graphs.


Add Numeric digital display

Adds a new digital numeric display to the digital display window. Afterwards, you can drag the digital display out of the window and drop it at a different position on the screen.

For more information, please see Numeric digital display.


Add Text digital display

Adds a new digital text display to the digital display window. Afterwards, you can drag the digital display out of the window and drop it at a different position on the screen.

For more information, please see Text digital display.


Add Watch view

Adds a new watch view to the signal monitoring area, in order to display signal values in tabular manner.

For more information see Part 6, Watch view.

For more information, please see Watch view.


Add Scope view

Adds a new oscilloscope view to the signal monitor area.

For more information, please see Scope view.


Add ibaQPanel

Adds a new ibaQPanel view to the signal monitoring area. The QPanel view requires the ibaQPanel add-on.

For more information, please see .


Add HD trend graph

Adds a new trend graph of historical data to the signal monitor area. A connection to an ibaHD server as well as a time-based storage are required to display data.

For more information, please see HD trend graph.


Add HD event table

Adds an event table to the signal monitoring area. A connection to an ibaHD server as well as an event-based HD storage are required to display events.

For more information, please see HD event table.


Add HD time period table

Adds a time period table to the signal monitoring area. A connection to an ibaHD server as well as a time-based HD storage are required to display time periods.

For more information, please see HD time periods table



Add camera view

Adds a new camera view to the signal monitor area. A connection to an ibaCapture server is required to display video images.

For more information, please see ibaCapture camera view.


Add FFT view

Adds a new FFT view to the signal monitor area. To use the FFT view in its full functional extend, the add-on ibaInSpectra is required.

For more information, please see FFT view.


Add Orbit view

Adds a new orbit view to the signal monitor area. The Orbit view requires the ibaInSpectra add-on.

For a full description of the view, please read the corresponding manual for the software product ibaInSpectra.



Add Cycle view

Adds a new cycle view to the signal monitoring area, in order to display values of an ibaInCycle module.

For a full description of the view, please read the corresponding manual for the software product ibaInCycle.



Add Circle view

Adds a new circle view to the signal monitoring area, in order to display values of an ibaInCycle module.

For a full description of the view, please read the corresponding manual for the software product ibaInCycle.



Add PQU spectrum

Adds a new spectrum bar chart view to the signal monitor area. The view is designed with respect to the device for power quality analysis (ibaPQU-S) and shows the harmonics.

For more information, please see PQU spectrum.


Add Phasor view

Adds a new vector diagram to the signal monitor area. The view is designed with respect to the device for power quality analysis (ibaPQU-S) and shows voltage and current vectors.

For more information, please see Phasor view.

Hide tabs

With this menu function, you can hide the tabs showing the name of the respective signal monitor. Thereby, you can save some space when using grouped (stacked) views. Note that you only see the current topmost monitor and that there is no way to switch to the other monitors behind unless tabs are shown.

Hide tab borders

This menu function allows you to hide the frames of tabs. This is useful for "Full screen" or "Full client" mode.

ibaPDA signal tree

This menu function allows you to show and hide the signal tree window of the ibaPDA server.

ibaHD signal tree

This menu function allows you to show and hide the signal tree window of a historical data server.

Data storage status

This menu function allows you to show and hide the data storage status window.

ibaPDA event log and ibaHD event log

These menu functions allow you to show and hide the event log windows of the corresponding servers.

Watch window

This menu function allows you to show and hide the watch window for the tabular display of signals and their actual values. Operation and function is the same as for Watch view.

Digital displays

This menu function allows you to show and hide the window for the digital numeric and text displays. The window is dockable and is shown when a new digital display is added via the menu or the toolbar button. If the digital display window is opened, you can add digital displays by dragging more signals or text signals into the window.

Reset window layout

This menu function allows you to reset all free floating windows (e.g. signal tree, watch window, data storage status etc.) in the currently active layout to their default position, size and visibility state.

There are similar commands available in the Layout Manager in order to apply this function to all layouts and not just the currently active layout.

Display style

This menu function provides a submenu offering 6 different display styles. You can activate and deactivate the display styles here.

The keyboard shortcuts allow you to switch (toggle) between the "Normal" display style and the selected style.

Table Client display modes

Style

Shortcut key

Description

Normal

Standard Windows frame with signal monitor area, toolbars, menus, signal tree Data storage status event log, data storage status, etc.

Full client

<Ctrl>+<Shift>+<C>

The signal monitor area (with the layouts) is expanded over the full area of the ibaPDA client window including the frame; no toolbars, menus or other windows are visible. Other Windows programs can be positioned above the ibaPDA client. When you restore the ibaPDA client window, you can still see the desktop background.

Full client on top

<Ctrl>+<Shift>+<T>

Equivalent to Full client, but the ibaPDA client is always in the foreground.

Full screen

<Ctrl>+<Shift>+<F>

Equivalent to Full client on top, but the signal monitor area covers the whole screen. The Windows task bar is also covered.

Full screen on all monitors

<Ctrl>+<Shift>+<A>

Equivalent to Full screen when using several monitors.

Fixed size

<Ctrl>+<Shift>+<S>

Shows the Client window in size and with options as set in dialog Configure fixed size … (in the same menu).

You can adjust the size of the client pixel-precisely and enable/disable some options regarding tabs and scroll bars. The settings of Hide tabs and Hide tab borders overwrite the corresponding settings made in view menu above.

If a layout contains a QPanel you can use the Fixed size display style to place and move the QPanel view freely on the screen. Therefore, an empty area in the QPanel without any element is required in order to grab and drag the view with the mouse.

You can use these display modes to maximize the available display area for signal monitors or to avoid an unauthorized use of the ibaPDA client. However, we recommend user management to effectively restrict operational access.

Language

The Language submenu makes it possible to switch between the GUI languages. The menu offers all the languages that are available in ibaPDA. note that some languages are only available with a corresponding license.

Free languages:

Licensed languages:

  • English

  • German

  • French

  • Spanish

  • Portuguese

  • Italian

  • Russian

  • Chinese

  • Japanese

ibaQPanel language dictionary

With this menu item, you open the dialog for editing the dictionary for the add-on ibaQPanel. In this dictionary you can enter all the texts which have been configured in the ibaQPanel in all available languages. Depending on the language setting in the Language menu of the display, the texts in the ibaQPanel user interface will switch their language accordingly.

Unit system

Under this menu item you can switch to a different unit system for the proper display of numerical values given in physical or other units. As a pre-requisite you should have configured one or more unit systems in the unit table and have enabled this function in the I/O Manager, section General - Unit table. The default setting is "Metric" (for the metric unit system).