Ignition Features and Ideas

It'd be really nice to be able to set up a grid in a Coordinate container and have all objects snap to it instead of using the object alignment tools. The object alignment tools are a pain to use. They often misalign objects by making a "mistake" as to which feature in another object they want to align it to. The whole thing is "too automatic." Just having a simple grid setup where you can snap objects to it would make it a lot easier to build quality layouts with perfect alignment. Even the arrange features where you can stack horizontally or vertically often looks bad.

This comes from a discussion of other SCADA platforms and a screenshot I saw of one which displays alarms quite nicely in their alarm status table, especially when space is a limiting factor (so most of the time!). The way the priority, ack, and status (the alarm bell) in this screenshot are displayed is very efficient in terms of space required to show the alarm information. The priority icons also follow the ASM / HPHMI standards.

Currently, the login action refreshes the current page and opens the login dialogue/window and when the user is logged in, we lose the current state of whatever the user was doing. It would be great if you can add a new option to open the login page as a popup (not an iframe) and that does not open a new page or navigate away from whatever the user was doing. We tried to use the auth challenge action but it does not persist the authentication data. thanks!

I spend lots of time in script editor... 7.7 editor include very cool new features, but still need a few add ! color marks for todo like in eclipse coor marks for found occurence of a find comment right click on function list to copy full function path auto comment, uncomment lines of code autocompletion for all packages ctrl mousewheel to increase text font size

When you end up maintaining a host of different gateways for different companies or plants, the designer launcher starts to become a bit of a pain to navigate. Its possible to create shortcuts which is nice, but then if ports ever change you have to recreate them and go in and out of the launcher anyway etc. It would be nice if it was possible to either create folders for gateways or group them by some common thing. For instance if I have 10 gateways for customer A, it would be nice to collect them all in one section called "Customer A" similar to when you pick from the list of available projects in the perspective app, but with multiple gateways listed in each group.

Add a checkbox to run a script in the Script Console as though it were running on the Gateway. OR Check a box and the Script console would highlight lines that might not work if run as a Gateway event script. I've figured out my issues this time, but it's hardly the first time that I've been all excited that my script runs great in the console only to have it fail miserably while I paste it into a Gateway event script.

It would be nice to be able to run scheduled gateway tasks immediately, similar to the feature on scheduled tab in the reporting module works. This would be very helpful for testing/troubleshooting the scripts.

It would be great to either: a) Assign a parameter type (color picker, path picker, icon picker, etc) to a particular parameter meta data, or b) Have the parameter type inherited by binding, so that if a parameter is bound to a color property, it automatically provides the color picker, etc.

It would be very nice if you could select a named query in a script. Just like you select a property. When you selected and fill in some information the script with all the parameters will write for you. The params will be copied from the named query and will use the same name for the variable in the script.

Would be fantastic to have the gateway event scripts pulled out of a binary file and added to the file system in plaintext. I believe IA has already indicated that this is a task being addressed as things come up. This particular resource is a pointed headache for us in a lot of the situations we encounter.