Welcome to RSView32 WebServer – the quick way to view graphic displays, tags, and alarms from any standard web browser.

Logging in
When you first try to view a display or any other data, a login page will appear. Type your RSView32 user name and password and then press Enter.

If you don’t know your RSView32 user name and password, check with your RSView32 administrator.

Using your web browser
Use your web browser buttons – Back, Forward, and Refresh – just as you would for any web site. For example, to move back to a previously viewed page, click the Back button.

You can also bookmark pages so the graphic displays and other data you most commonly use are easy to get again and again.

RSView32 WebServer shows you a read-only, static “snapshot” of data – that is, you won’t see graphic displays or tag values changing. To get an updated view of your data, click the Refresh button on your browser.

If you have your browser open and don’t change or refresh pages for a while, RSView32 WebServer might timeout. The default timeout period is 10 minutes, but your RSView32 administrator might have specified a longer or shorter time. If you have timed out, the login page will appear the next time you try to view data. Simply enter your user name and password again.

Viewing graphic displays

1. To view a list of graphic displays, click the Displays button on the left side of the RSView32 WebServer page.

2. To view a particular display, scroll through the list, and then click the display you want to look at.

Requesting a particular graphic display
To view a particular graphic display, include its name with the Display keyword in the RSView32 WebServer URL. For example, to request a graphic display named Paper Recipe, enter this.

http://machine name/RSViewWEB/RSViewWEB.asp?Display=Paper Recipe

To further define the view, use optional parameters with the Display keyword.

Display parameters

• /U uploads tag values into all input fields when the display first opens.
• /P file is the name of the parameter file that contains tag names to be substituted into the display (if the file name includes spaces, enclose it in double quotes).
• /T tag names is a list of tags, separated by commas, to be substituted into the display.
• &Width=N scales the display at N pixels, unless Percent is specified (range is 10 to 1600 pixels or 10 to 100 percent).
• &Height=N scales the display at N pixels, unless Percent is specified (range is 10 to 1200 pixels or 10 to 100 percent).
• &Percent=1&Height=N&Width=N scales any Width or Height parameter as a percentage of the viewable space in the browser window (range is 10 to 100 percent).

For example, suppose we want to request a display named Paper Recipe, scaled at 75% of the browser's viewable area for both height and width. Before RSView32 WebServer captures the snapshot, we want to first upload tag values into all input fields. In the URL, enter this:

Viewing tags

1. To view a list of tags, click the Tags button on the left side of the RSView32 WebServer page.
   When the tags page appears, it might contain one or two tables. If your tag database contains folders, they will be listed in a table at the top of the page and any tags at the root of the database will be listed in another table below.

2. To view tags inside a folder, click the folder name.

Requesting specific tags in a tags table
While connected to RSView32 WebServer, you can:

• specify tag names in the URL, separated by commas
• include the wildcard character "*" when specifying tag names
• specify a folder name to return all tags in that folder and all folders within that folder (non recursive)
• specify a folder name follwed by a wildcard character "*" to return all tags in the folder and all tags in all subfolders (recursive)

For example, to request a table that includes all tags in the Process folder and all subfolders within the Process folder, enter this in the URL:

http://machine name/RSViewWEB/RSViewWEB.asp?Tags=Process

Requesting specific columns in a tags table
To override the default settings and define the columns to be included in the tags table, use the following parameters with the Columns keyword. If a column is not relevant for a particular tag, the column contains a single dash. The equals sign (=) after Tags is a required part of the syntax:
Tags=&Columns=parameters

For example, to request a table that includes all tags in the Process folder, including all tags within all Process subfolders, with only name, value, and status columns, enter this in the URL:

http://machine name/RSViewWEB/RSViewWEB.asp?Tags=Process\*&Columns=Name,Value,Status

Tag column parameters
Tag column parameters include:

• Name
• Status
• Value
• Description
• Type
• SecurityCode
• AlarmState
• AlarmSeverity
• OffLabel (applies only to digital tags)
• OnLabel (applies only to digital tags)
• Length (applies only to string tags)
• Min (applies only to analog tags)
• Max (applies only to analog tags)
• ScaleFactor (applies only to analog tags)
• Offset (applies only to analog tags)
• Units (applies only to analog tags)

Viewing alarms

1. To view a list of alarms, click the Alarms button on the left side of the RSView32 WebServer page.