Create a Situational Awareness Project

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When you create a Situational Awareness project, it is recommended that you begin with a Starter project. This provides a set of components that are required to support fundamental runtime functionality. You can then modify and extend a project to suit your needs.

To create a Situational Awareness project:

Create a project using a Starter project.
In Project field, select "SA_Style_1_MultiRes".

The project that is created will include the following components:

Two master pages defining a default workspace layout - one in HD 1080 and one in UHD 4K resolution.
Two sets of page templates (one in HD 1080 and one in UHD 4K) for the pre-configured workspace content.
A cluster named "Cluster1".
A server of each server types: “IOServer1”, “AlarmServer1”, “ReportServer1” and “TrendServer1”.
A memory I/O device named “Internal”.
An I/O device for calculated variables named "Cicode".
Two pre-configured menus named "Headerbar" and "InformationZone".
Default Content Types for classifying page content.
Default Alarm Categories and Priorities.
A default screen profile targeting your primary screen.
A set of parameters, accessible from the Parameters view in Citect Studio's Setup activity.
A role named "Administrators" which is linked to the "BUILTIN\Administrators" Windows group and have global privilege of 1 to 8. This allows a user to log in Citect SCADA at runtime using a Windows user account who belongs to the Administrators group of the local machine.

The project will also include three system projects:

SA_Include – hosts content that is used by a Starter Project. It also includes a set of labels.
SA_Library – includes graphical content you can use to represent equipment such as meters, drives and valves. This includes a set of Composite Genies that provide a template to easily create multiple objects with a consistent look and feel.
SA_Controls – includes Genies and controls that support the functionality provided by a Situational Awareness project.

A newly created project can be compiled immediately, however, there are some settings in the Computer Setup Wizard that you will need to adjust to display the correct content at startup. See Run the Computer Setup Wizard.