QuickHMI Hawk - That's new!
QuickHMI Hawk is here. The following innovations await you!
Recipe Manager
QuickHMI Recipe Management has been completely revised and now offers more options in work flow, security, as well as in the organization of user rights.
External logging for internal data sources and differentiation of log and image
From now on, internal data sources can also be logged externally. Until QuickHMI Gazelle, this was only possible with external data sources.
External logging can be configured for the system as well as for the internal data source by double-clicking on the list entry.
Another new feature of external logging is that the data log and the data image can now be generated separately. Previously, this distinction did not exist,
and the log was always generated automatically. Now, optionally, only one of the two can be generated. If the data log is not needed anyway, memory resources
can be saved. In addition, a selection can be made via selection lists to determine which variables are to be logged during external logging and which are not.
Alarm control element
From QuickHMI Hawk there is the alarm control. This new feature was created by the request of our customers.
The alarm control can be placed in the editor at the desired position and functions as a table in which alarms are clearly displayed during runtime.
Alarms can be filtered and displayed in different ways, and individual color highlighting is possible. For example, a specific color can be defined for
active alarms and for inactive alarms. In addition, it is possible to determine how many variables are displayed per table page and a search field can be integrated into it.
MQTT Secured connection (SSL)
MQTT connections can be secured with TLS starting with QuickHMI Hawk. This was also a frequently requested feature from our customers.
If the connection is encrypted, authentication can be realized via login or with a certificate stored by the user. It is important to note that different
certificates must be provided for the Editor runtime and the Runtime Manager runtime.
http header for the web service data source
When creating web service data sources, there is now a "Headers" section. Here you can define HTTP headers by specifying a header name and a header value.
You can create your own headers as well as select from a variety of predefined standards. A special feature is the Authorization Header.
The content of the Authorization Header, when using Basic Authentication, can be generated automatically by entering the user name and password.
Rights query for actions and rules
User and rights management has always been an integral and important part of the QuickHMI system. So, actions can be linked to rights, for example.
An event can consist of several actions that can only be executed if the executing user is assigned a specific right (When applying rights assignment).
Starting from QuickHMI Hawk it is now also possible to protect ONLY ONE of the assigned actions by a right within an event, whereas the other actions
remain available for all users. This is realized under "Conditions" within the action settings via the new variable "System.user.rights".
Linked to this is a selection of rights that can be assigned to the user for a corresponding action within an event. Multiple selection is possible.
The same applies to rules.
New system variable for alarms
In QuickHMI you have the possibility to display all system variables via checkbox. In the previous versions there was only the variable "active_alarm_count".
This shows how many alarms are generally active. However, there is no subdivision of the alarm types. This is different from version Hawk.
There are additionally 3 new system variables in which the number of alarms is broken down by alarm type:
active_message_alarm_count | active_warning_alarm_count | active_error_alarm_count
These show in detail how many Message Alarms, how many Warning Alarms and how many Error Alarms are active.
Extended support for Allen-Bradley controllers
QuickHMI now supports additional Allen-Bradley controllers. These include controllers from the Micro800 and MicroLogix series.
Also, the latest generation controllers from the Compact and ControlLogix series are now supported.
Support for Plc5, Slc500 and LogixPccc is implemented on an experimental basis.