Dear Experts, 

I want to make the Reset button only appear when there is a fault condition, Similarly when the Local mode is selected then Start & Stop Button should hide . Similarly Can I make these button visible but not functional anymore. Any suggestions to improve the screen are also welcome.

 Hello qwemx,

qwemx

Similarly Can I make these button visible but not functional anymore. Any suggestions to improve the screen are also welcome.

as Konstantin wrote, add a new animation to the button(s).

- Animations > Display > Visibility: Hide/unhide

- Animations > Display > Control enable: Enable/disable

Regards,

Frink

Apologies if this seems an obvious point, but commonly I have two separate elements. So underneath is what is actually just a text configured to look like the button with the text greyed. This has no visibility control configured. On top, exactly aligned is the actual button with the appropriate configured event and with the text in black. This has a visibility control configured with the conditions required for the button to be available. That might be login level, or it might be some interlock condition met, or it can be some combination, but the flag controlling visibility will be controlled in the PLC code. I can have a more complex version of the same idea where the button can serve different functions as appropriate with the circumstance but with a greyed version at the bottom of the stack. An easy example would be greyed ‘Start’ when stopped and not available to be started, ‘Start’ when stopped and available to be started, and ‘Stop’ when running. Sometimes it can be best to have a coded integer variable controlling which function is visible rather than a Boolean flag.