To base a project on an existing starter project:

1. Choose New Project from the File menu, or click the New Project button.
2. Type a name for your project and choose a location for the files. Using spaces in the project name is not recommended. Although Citect SCADA does not stop you from using spaces, it can cause unpredictable results.
3. Click the Create project based on starter project check box.
4. Choose the project on which you want to base your new project.
5. Click OK.

Four pre-defined starter projects with page resolutions of XGA, SXGA, WUXGA and HD1080 (Full HD) are provided as part of the product installation. Each of the starter projects will be based on project "Tab_Style_1" and contain:

• A cluster named "Cluster1".
• A role named "Administrators" which is linked to the "BUILTIN\Administrators" Windows group and have global privilege of 8. This allow a user to log in Citect SCADA at runtime using a Windows user account who belongs to the Administrators group of the local machine.
• Pages of Alarm, Summary, Disabled, Hardware, ProcessAnalyst and !ProcessAnalystPopup based on the relevant templates found in the Tab_Style_Include project.

The newly created project will be immediately compilable, and will contain a basic level of built-in functions such as viewing alarms and trends.

To make it easier to configure a project based on the tab style templates from scratch, follow these steps:

1. Create a privileged user; see Creating a Privileged User.
2. Run the Setup Wizard; see Running the Setup Wizard.
3. Set up instant trending; see Using Instant Trending.
4. Set up multiple monitor display; see Displaying a Project on Multiple Monitors.
5. Implement audible alarms; see Implementing Audible Alarms.

Don't modify the tab style templates project for use as a runtime project; set it aside for use as a template for new projects.

If creating a project based on the tab style templates, it is not recommended to include pages based on templates that use a different style, including the earlier Include project. Doing so might affect functionality.