User Manual: COBA Editor
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1. ID 12373880484278 NID Device Name MID Device Path IndicationOnof Indication LONIX LTD Teollisuuskatu 33 Tel 358 9 349 9853 VAT 1043054 9 www lonix com FI 00510 Helsinki Finland Fax 358 9 349 9863 Trade Reg No 678 356 User Manual 9 18 COBA Editor Expand the Control Group by clicking on the sign in front of it to get a view of all the Information Points the Control Group has Select one of them to see its properties By default most of the Control Groups use com lonix LonixMultiDriver This is used in conjunction with COBA HMINid Service and a LON network card When using a LNI and COBA LNI Service the driver class should be com lonix LonixMultiDriverL NI Define the NID Pipe accordingly The above parameters Driver Class and NID Pipe can also be set direct from the project tree by right clicking on the Information Point Control Group or the Control System level where it is contained When you select Apply changes to subnodes as shown in the following dialog the same settings are applied to all objects below the selected level For example you can select the settings from Control System level to Information Points included in the Control System Nid Pipe Mid Pipe LNI 1 Apply changes to subnodes 3 Cancel To map an Information Point of the Control Group to an l O object click on the Value field of the I O Object property A small grey button will appear to its right side C2. then also the corresponding Data Points HiHi Level Alarm Hi Level Alarm Lo Level Alarm and LoLo Level Alarm need to have exactly the same OEM Value Conversion property as the outMeasure Data Point When inputting new alarm limits COBA will use the value to divide the input e g if a user inputs a new alarm limit of 100 Pa then it will be 2096 of the measurement range and the corresponding configuration variable will receive an input of 20 100 5 20 LONIX LTD Teollisuuskatu 33 Tel 358 9 349 9853 VAT 1043054 9 www lonix com FI 00510 Helsinki Finland Fax 358 9 349 9863 Trade Reg No 678 356 User Manual 11 18 COBA Editor e onix 3 Graphics Creation 3 1 Tools for Editing Graphics The COBA Editor includes the following tools for editing the graphics L Selection Tool for selecting and moving objects Image Tool for creating images for the Building Model or Template The Editor supports gif jog and png image formats The Properties editor includes attributes like Scalable and Tiled which can be applied to the images for effects accordingly Changeable Image Tool with which an image can be created which changes with DES the value of a DataPoint The Properties editor includes the same attributes as the Image tool Label Tool for writing texts into the Drawing area or Template The text itself its font and the borders are handled by the Properties editor cH Area Selection Tool for linking buildings
3. COBA UI Client installation folder configFiles folder Then modify the settings xml file located in the same folder and change the RES file name in the following to match the project file name Property lt Name gt configFile lt Name gt lt Value gt DemoProject res lt Value gt lt Property gt You can then start COBA UI Client in OFFLINE MODE to preview the user interface For online mode to work COBA Server needs to be installed The file locations are as follows B Copy CobaControl xml and CobaEstate xml into lt COBA installation folder gt config ctrlis directory B Copy the RES file to lt COBA installation folder profiles Default directory B Rename the RES file to Default res LONIX LTD Teollisuuskatu 33 Tel 358 9 349 9853 VAT 1043054 9 www lonix com FI 00510 Helsinki Finland Fax 358 9 349 9863 Trade Reg No 678 356
4. target of the link The target appears in the image when you click on another tool or another part of the drawing area User Manual 14 18 COBA Editor You can change the borders of the area at any time with the Area Selector Select the tool and pick any corner to drag it into the new location You can also change the target of the link at any stage Using the Link Tool With Link Tool you can create labels that can be clicked in COBA UI to open a different view Links are done in exactly the same way as labels see Adding Labels but after defining the size of the link label a dialog with the building model will appear for selecting the link target The target is selected by clicking the target object in the tree and then OK If you want to have a link on a picture for example then first add the picture and then place a non opaque link with no text on it Teollisuuskatu 33 Fl 00510 Helsinki Finland Tel 358 9 349 9853 Fax 358 9 349 9863 FE n 3 we Select Link Target Link ID 12373880484977 UT DemoEstate a DemoBuilding1 Ge DemoBuilding2 EN Roof Upper Level Lower Level 2nd Floor a 1st Floor AF Ground Floor Basement RAL Building G A AirHandlingUnits ius L At FAHU2 DA ChillerSystem a DemoBuilding3 VAT 1043054 9 Trade Reg No 678 356 User Manual 15 18 COBA Editor 4 Control Group Templates Normally a Control Group is added into a view thro
5. ID UM L82345 2012 User Manual COBA Editor is E ja i Fa dern D I CRL PS Turrim h D c arg ra rg HI E Fam do at reg jw MAT third Wer hee Paii imi mi EE E Co em Coen bn er sm LONIX LTD Teollisuuskatu 33 Tel 358 9 349 9853 VAT 1043054 9 www lonix com FI 00510 Helsinki Finland Fax 358 9 349 9863 Trade Reg No 678 356 User Manual 2 18 COBA Editor Index COBA Editor 4 1 General Information E 5 2 New Project Cheat m aai 6 MEC up e E are RE nien an E EEE ee ee eee 6 ec Creating the BOIS Pb Ul EE 7 239 Addmng Control GOS sisenemine EAEE ENEN EEEE EEE ANENE KENEEN ANENE SEE 7 3 Graphics Creal ON BE 11 31 NOC TO EGUNO Gale ne 11 ee PAUNO Bun e LE 11 3 3 Adding Wa GlS RR 13 3 4 FROIN cU P 13 4 Control Group RRE 15 5 Exporting the User Interface to COBA Server ccceeeeeececceessseeeeeeeeeceesseeeeeeeeeeessneeeeeseeees 18 LONIX LTD Teollisuuskatu 33 Tel 358 9 349 9853 VAT 1043054 9 www lonix com FI 00510 Helsinki Finland Fax 358 9 349 9863 Trade Reg No 678 356 User Manual 3 18 COBA Editor e LL cra Introduction This document describes functionality of the COBA Editor application COBA Editor is a software tool for implementation of graphical User Interfaces for COBA connected systems COBA Editor includes a selection of libraries and templa
6. P 3 smokeDetector gif 3 TEc gif corner of the drawing area and go back to the Boo Kos active view by clicking on the appropriate 3 TC centrats git 3 TF aif building model object 3 TC fautt oif 3 Tila gif Open Cancel The Control Group with the label and the picture is now visible on the active view When you now click the Control Group you can adjust its borders You can also define a dialog for the Control Group by defining the dialog name in the properties of the Control Group Save the template created for a Control Group by clicking the right mouse button in the drawing area and selecting Save as template gt OK Please input a name for the new template Temperature Measuremer The template is saved to either user templates or project templates LONIX LTD Teollisuuskatu 33 Tel 358 9 349 9853 VAT 1043054 9 www lonix com FI 00510 Helsinki Finland Fax 358 9 349 9863 Trade Reg No 678 356 User Manual 17 18 COBA Editor o tanix Example 2 For objects with ON and OFF states it is Supply Fan Run Status possible to define two pictures that change according to the state IndicationO DUT Dind que Drag and drop an indication object Generic Indication Control Group used in this example on the view right click on it and select Edit IndicationOnOft ins witch Indication OnOff Alarm Priority Select the Changeable Image Tool for an indicationOnOff On Delay image displaying two st
7. Project Help OSHS Editor x Image Resources Predefined Images Projectlmages Available Images Image Preview 3 exit lamp NM reg ott 5 fireCallButton gif SPESEEFFFPETETETFFEFETETUEFFFFITETUEFFFPETEIVEYEFPETIIEETEFPITIIVETEYPITERT i F a aaa aaa 3 exit lamp red ot 3 fireCallButtonRed 3 exit red gif 3 fireGray gif 3 exit yellow gif 3 fireRed gif 3 FG gif 3 forbidden gif DN FGHorizontal gif 3 fuliscreen gif C per ap HIGH op SS L po Open Cancel B Gn os oc 8 g Tool Image x 108 y 125 The image appears in the drawing area in its actual size but it can be resized at any time as follows Select the image with the Object Selector Tool in the lower toolbar and tag the Scalable attribute in the Properties editor Now resize the image by dragging the green frame or changing the values of the width and height in the Properties editor LONIX LTD Teollisuuskatu 33 Tel 358 9 349 9853 VAT 1043054 9 www lonix com FI 00510 Helsinki Finland Fax 358 9 349 9863 Trade Reg No 678 356 User Manual 13 18 COBA Editor GAB Te TH 3 3 Adding Labels Select an object in the tree structure of the Building Model where the label will be added Then select the Label Tool and press the left mouse button in the drawing area Define the size of the label area by dragging the mouse downwards to the right the label size can be modified later Next you can edit th
8. ates ON OFF IndicationOnOff Off Delay Drag the mouse in the drawing area to define Indication nOTf Operational Hours the size and on releasing the mouse button a IndicationOnOff manualState selection window pops up to give the source Remove data state which selects the displayed image In the Property section define a default value ON or OFF to define which image is shown in offline mode Then click on the imageMap property to define the two images x Changeable Image Resources Avai Image Preview LONIX LTD Teollisuuskatu 33 Tel 358 9 349 9853 VAT 1043054 9 www lonix com FI 00510 Helsinki Finland Fax 358 9 349 9863 Trade Reg No 678 356 User Manual 18 18 COBA Editor 5 Exporting the User Interface to COBA Server The COBA Server uses an XML and a RES file to display the views of a project created in COBA Editor The files are created with the command Project gt Export UI Resource File Browse for the directory where you want to save the RES file and type the name of the file into the File Name field The XML ui xml file will be generated automatically in the same folder As the Control Groups and the Building Model are created with COBA Editor also CobaControl xml and CobaEstate xml files need to be generated Selecting Project gt Export COBA XML will generate the two files in the COBA Editor project folder To test the generated user interface in offline mode you can copy the RES file in
9. e properties of the label in the Property table on the left For example the label text is defined in the Value field of the property defaultValue x COBA Editor c program files coba coba pct projects EditorDemo EditorDemo zip BAX Fie Edit Project Help D c BU EY Editor New Building di New Estate de New Building Label with some text Lt New System Property Value 45 62 105 None Label with some text Dialog Plain 12 255 255 5 255 255 255 horizontalAlignment opaque verticalAlignment S Standard 0 vj User Project 0 3 L3 di cn d ED sp cn g g No tool selected 3 4 Adding Links Different views in the user interface are linked using the Area Selector Tool or the Link Tool Area Selector Tool is used to create graphical links to building objects Buildings Building Parts or opaces After you have created building objects in the project tree you can use the Area Selector Tool to create graphical links to those objects LONIX LTD Teollisuuskatu 33 Tel 358 9 349 9853 VAT 1043054 9 www lonix com FI 00510 Helsinki Finland Fax 4358 9 349 9863 Trade Reg No 678 356 LONIX LTD www lonix com Using the Area Selector Tool Select Area Selector and input the area by clicking the mouse in each corner Close the area by selecting the first point again The area turns green Click the area with the right mouse button to define the
10. eated using the COBA Editor Features of COBA Editor include the following Drag amp drop and copy paste functionality Templates for user interface creation standard user project Importing floor plans from image files jpg gif png Using defined areas in pictures as links Modeling support The following figure illustrates the layout of COBA Editor x COBA Editor C Documents and Settings kosonsam My Documents PROJECTS DemoProject DemoProject zip la F e Ed amp Project Help D zm BU Editor Er FAHU1 Mi AL Chill th ELE Standard 0 vj Usero gt Project o Templates Wl d co S cO d x No tool selected LONIX LTD Teollisuuskatu 33 Tel 358 9 349 9853 VAT 1043054 9 www lonix com FI 00510 Helsinki Finland Fax 358 9 349 9863 Trade Reg No 678 356 User Manual 6 18 COBA Editor 2 New Project Creation 2 Getting Started Start creation of a new project by selecting File New Project The following window will be opened Select the folder for the project files Write the name of the project e g DemoProject in the File Name field and press Open Create project file Look In a DemoProject il K ical BB Ez File Name Files of Type Compressed Project File The program creates automatically a file to the project folder with name projectname zip where the project name is the name you ve selected e g DemoProject In add
11. ing Model by right clicking on an object Lom bri Users enini my Late EL fg New Estate m DemoEstate 9 DemoBuilding1 a G f DemoBuilding2 B 4 Roof Upper Level Lower Level 2nd Floor 4st Floor A Ground Floor Basement B a Building 18 A S AL AirHandlingUnits lew Ji FAHU2 RA ChillerSystem Chiller1 amp Chiller amp Chiller3 18 e secondaryPumps j Add Building part BE Add Control System Remove New Building Fei DemoBuilding3 When viewed in the COBA Client software only those Control Systems and Building Parts with any graphics added to them or a system under them are shown 2 3 Adding Control Groups It is recommended to create all new Control Groups under the corresponding Control Systems If needed you can then later create copies of the Control Groups and paste them under estates buildings building parts and spaces Right click on a Control System and select Add Control Group A dialog is opened to see all available Control Groups grouped in libraries e g dedicated libraries for Lonix Automation and Lonix Security Control Groups Double click the library tree to see its contents Depending on your project you may need Control Groups from all libraries or from a single library only LONIX LTD Teollisuuskatu 33 Tel 358 9 349 9853 VAT 1043054 9 www lonix com FI 00510 Helsinki Finland Fax 358 9 349 9863 T
12. is sometimes a need to change the unit or range of a measurement for example The unit of measurement is defined with the Type ID property the measurement range with the OEM Value Conversion property To change the type ID to a more suitable unit you can check the file coba types xml located in COBA installation folder gt config ctrls for available measurement units This file can be modified by editing any of the existing type IDs that are not needed in the project To change the range of a measurement in COBA define a value for the OEM Value Conversion property Note that this only affects how the measurement is displayed in COBA Ul not the actual measurement Al object Example A differential pressure transducer with a range of 0 to 500 Pa is connected to an Al object in a Lonix Controller The Al objects nvo Al Sensor outputs a value of O to 100 according to the active 0 10V signal from the transducer For example when the pressure difference is 300 Pa the value of nvo Al Sensor of the Al object is 60 Without any OEM Value Conversion the reading in COBA UI would also be 60 But if a value of 5 is defined in the OEM Value Conversion property of the outMeasure Data Point COBA will multiply the value of nvo Al Sensor with 5 thus giving a reading of 300 Pa 60 5 2 300 in COBA User Interface If the Al object is also an alarming point with HiHi Hi Lo and LoLo alarm limits and these may be changed through a dialog in COBA UI
13. ition the program creates a folder with name res for the image resources This folder will contain project specific image files such as floor plans for example These images will be included automatically in the res file which is exported from COBA Editor for the COBA UI Client Go to Project Properties and define the resolution of the Client PC Define also the installation path directory of PCT and the LXP file of the project The following figure shows an example Properties C Documents and Settings kosonsam My Doc 5 Target screen area Width 1024 Height 768 Enviroment PCT directory path am FilesXCOBAIPCT 1 Ti LXP file path noProjectibemoProject LONIX LTD Teollisuuskatu 33 Tel 358 9 349 9853 VAT 1043054 9 www lonix com FI 00510 Helsinki Finland Fax 4358 9 349 9863 Trade Reg No 678 356 User Manual 7 18 COBA Editor 2 2 Creating the Project Structure The project structure Building Model and Control Systems are created with COBA Editor You can use the same structure as in Lonix PCT project but sometimes you may want to make them look a bit different for simplicity An estate can have many buildings a building can have many building parts and a building part can have many building parts and spaces Control Systems can only be placed under a building object The following figure illustrates a Building Model You can add buildings building parts and spaces with the Build
14. l Properties 51 51 51 m Raised The Background color of a label can be changed only if opaque is tagged or a border Dialog Plain 12 is selected 355 255 255 You can change the shape of the border with rammei er the options empty etched lower raised or line zm SS yerticalAliqn Center e Font opens a font selection dialog and aient Foreground changes the color of the font y LONIX LTD Teollisuuskatu 33 Tel 358 9 349 9853 VAT 1043054 9 www lonix com FI 00510 Helsinki Finland Fax 358 9 349 9863 Trade Reg No 678 356 User Manual 16 18 COBA Editor Height and Width values indicate the limits of the Control Group i e size of the active area of the object when the mouse is dragged on top of the object The attributes can be changed either in the Properties editor press Enter for the values to update or by dragging the borders of the label HorizontalAligment and verticalAligment change the position of the text within label X and Y values indicate the position of the Control Group in the drawing area The position can be altered also by dragging the object Press the Image Tool button to add an image Image Resources into the Control Group The functionality of the egenen Projectimages I image tool is all available while editing the iD due n anm tem plate 3 sccait 3 TC unconfigured c 3 scLett git C TE gif Place the label and the image in the upper left aum Bu
15. lick the small button to open a dialog that allows you to select the appropriate I O Object from a list The list will show all l O objects of the correct type that exist in the LXP file of the project If the projects LXP file is not defined in the COBA Editor properties then the mapping cannot be done Also if any changes are made to the LXP then COBA Editor needs to load the file again This is done when the COBA Editor project is opened When an Information Point is mapped to an l O object successfully its name will be shown in green color The following figure illustrates mapping of a Control Group to an l O object w HU object selector Select VO Object from list FAHUT1 A Extract Air Fan Run Status FAHUT1 M2 Extract Air Filter DPS PS30 C2 DI 29 30 FAHU1 Fresh Air Filter DPS PS1 C2 Dl 27128 FAHU1 Mi Supply Air Fan Run Status C2 DI 2728 VO objects from LXP C Documents and SettingsikosonsamiMy Documents PROJECTS DemoProjectiDemo Select UO object LONIX LTD Teollisuuskatu 33 Tel 358 9 349 9853 VAT 1043054 9 www lonix com Fl 00510 Helsinki Finland Fax 358 9 349 9863 Trade Reg No 678 356 User Manual 10 18 COBA Editor An Information Point consists of several Data Points which are used for reading and writing data from the COBA Server Each Data Point is mapped to an input output or configuration network variable visible at its Address property In general the address does not need to be changed There
16. rade Reg No 678 356 User Manual 8 18 GAB Te TH COBA Editor Select an appropriate Control Group as illustrated in the following figure give it a descriptive name and click OK Add Control Group Control Group Properties Control Group ID 1901 Information Point 1 Supply Fan Run Status IndicationOnOff Indication Control Group Library AT SENSU CH Controllers 3 Counters H CH GenericControlGroups H CH Genericlndications Genericindication EJ GenericControls EJ GenericMeasurements J GenericCalculation CC Lighting C Time Scheduler Ei Lonix RM1 Control Group Library When you have added the Control Group you need to define its properties to let COBA Server know which l O object it is mapped to and which driver and NID pipe should be used Otherwise COBA cannot communicate with the l O object The following figure shows definition of Control Group properties Editor 1 007 ef DemoEstate e DemoBuilding1 R I DemoBuilding EN Roof Upper Level Lower Level 2nd Floor 1st Floor Ground Floor P Basement RA Building G A AirHandlingUnits go FAHUT1 5 85 supply Fan Run Status a ft i FAHU2 RA ChillerSystem a Chillers Chiller a Chiller3 a E SecondaryPumps 9 DemoBuilding3 GIG ES PLES SE PEG PES PT PG PES PS PE PS PES SE PT PS PS PS PT PSS PPP PS SS PP PP PP Propert Driver Glass com lonix LonixMultiDriver O Object 1O Object Position
17. spaces or rooms FA Link Tool for creating links between building parts and control systems gd File Reference Tool for making links to external documents The tools are accessed by clicking the icons located in the right hand side toolbar in the bottom of the page Please note that Changeable Image Tool is only applicable when creating Control Group Templates 3 2 Adding Images Select an object in the tree structure of the Building Model where the image will be added The building model object with the currently active view will be displayed with a blue background Then select the Image Tool and press the left mouse button in the drawing area Define the size of the image area by dragging the mouse downwards to the right the image size can be modified later A window pops up where you can choose the image file under the Predefined images or Project images tabs If you want to use your own graphics e g floor plans then use the import functionality in Project images tab The files you import are stored under res folder inside the project file directory and can be later accessed through the Project images tab LONIX LTD Teollisuuskatu 33 Tel 358 9 349 9853 VAT 1043054 9 www lonix com FI 00510 Helsinki Finland Fax 358 9 349 9863 Trade Reg No 678 356 User Manual 12 18 eLoms lt COBA Editor Image Resources Project Images The following figure shows an example about adding graphics File Edit
18. tes for graphics creation to different systems COBA Editor supports creation of new templates as well The model of the building its systems and devices is created using the COBA Editor Features of COBA Editor include the following Drag amp drop and copy paste functionality Templates for user interface creation standard user project Importing floor plans from image files jpg gif png Using defined areas in pictures as links Modeling support This document is meant primarily for system integrators and other automation system professionals LONIX LTD Teollisuuskatu 33 Tel 358 9 349 9853 VAT 1043054 9 www lonix com FI 00510 Helsinki Finland Fax 358 9 349 9863 Trade Reg No 678 356 User Manual 4 18 COBA Editor COBA Editor Functionality Description B General B New Project Creation B Graphics Creation B Control Group Templates B Exporting the User Interface LONIX LTD Teollisuuskatu 33 Tel 358 9 349 9853 VAT 1043054 9 www lonix com FI 00510 Helsinki Finland Fax 358 9 349 9863 Trade Reg No 678 356 User Manual 5 18 COBA Editor GAB Te TH General Information COBA Editor is a software tool for implementation of graphical User Interfaces for COBA connected systems COBA Editor includes a selection of libraries and templates for graphics creation to different systems COBA Editor supports creation of new templates as well The model of the building its systems and devices is cr
19. ugh the Template Library For new kinds of Control Groups also new Templates have to be created The new template is saved and will appear in the User or Project Template Library User Template Library includes templates that can be used in all COBA Editor projects Project Template Library templates can only be used in that particular project Example 1 Select a Control Group in a Control System and drag it to the graphics area A temperature measurement Control Group is used in this example If the active view is any Building Model object except the Control System the Control Group resides in a reference of the Control Group is created under the Building Model object Control Group references have their name in cursive and none of its properties can be changed Click the right mouse button on top of the object in the drawing area and press Edit This will open a new view that is for that particular Control Group only The Label Tool allows you to add a text field Press Label Tool button and drag the left Lane mouse button in the drawing window to give 7 the size of the label set as position label Temperature outMeasure Temperature inMeasure You can write static text e g 1st Floor or text changing with a Data Point value e g a measurement A right click gives you a pop up for the selection of the source Data Point e g temperature measurement Write the text of the label into the DefaultValue mae field of Labe
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