Vision Panel Edition

The Vision Panel Edition is a licensing level that restricts the Vision module to one client on the local system, with tag read & write capabilities. The panel edition cannot access the database or SQLTags Historian.

Uses of the Panel Edition

The Panel Edition is designed to provide an extremely cost-effective way to ensure that local control is available when the network or server goes down. Previous to the introduction of the Panel Edition, touch-screen computers would web-launch clients from the Ignition server. If the network link was unavailable, the client would cease to function. With Panel Edition, the Ignition gateway runs directly on a computer close to the hardware being controlled.

Panel Edition nodes run their own projects, but can be integrated together and with a central server by way of the Retargeting feature, in which an Ignition Client running one project can switch to running another project (even on another Gateway) seamlessly.

Restrictions of the Panel Edition

Exceptions to the restrictions

When a client launched from a fully licensed Vision gateway retargets to a Panel Edition gateway, it confers all of the capabilities of the full system. In other words, the above restrictions do not apply for clients launched on licensed gateways and transferred to the panel. Obviously, some care must be taken in designing projects to support dual-mode operation, such as running SQL queries. While the queries will work when run from a re-targeted client, they will fail on the Panel client. One way to support this is to create multiple projects on the Panel Edition gateway that separate status and control from historical access. You can retarget to either from the full gateway, and then only use the control project from the panel.

Installing Panel Edition

Panel Edition is simply a standard Vision module installation, activated with a CD-key that confers the Panel Edition license level.