Ignition Features and Ideas

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.

The "copy/paste JSON" functionality, accessible through the Shift+RClick combo, is actually available for the whole view. It would be really usefull to extend this functionality to the nested components and containers in the project browser tree

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 extremely helpful to have Perspective functions analogous to the Vision scripting functions for showing errors, getting confirmations, showing messages, and taking user inputs. Many functions would be useful, but these are the ones that come to mind in rough order of priority: system.gui.confirm() system.gui.inputBox(), system.gui.show [NumericKeypad/TouchscreenKeyboard] () system.gui.[error/warning/message]Box() These functions were extremely useful in Vision, and homebrewing equivalent versions with message handlers and custom scripting carry a lot of overhead.

Can we have the option to specify a favicon for a project? I have many browser tabs open with Ignition projects and there is no visual differentiation between them as they share the common favicon. Being able to create individual favicons for each project would help solve this.

system.db.runNamedQuery is used in two different scenarios that use two different parameter settings: gateway and project. As I do have several scripts running on gateway scope and project scope, I always have to switch between ('project', 'NamedQueryPath', 'params') and ('NamedQueryPath', 'params') because they are incompatible. PLEASE make the 'project' parameter optional in the project scope.. or better: enable cross reverence to other projects!

Currently the Copy on at Table only copies JSON. This is nice for a developer but not good for an end user. It would be nice to have either multiple copy, like Copy CSV, Copy JSON or at minimum Copy Cell which copies the data in the current Cell you clicked on.

Ability to Backup/Restore Tag providers, user sources, database connections, devices, etc.

The ability to view revision history with username and saved/published time stamp and possibly rollback to a previous state for individual windows and templates. This would be very nice to have on the right click menu on the Window/Template in Designer.

It will be essential to have a system function to take screenshot of active page in perspective runtime and return it as bytes array.