About Easy Templating

Easy Templating allows you to use the Easy Template widgets to create templates for Niagara px pages. A template is a collection of graphical symbols, that can be animated depending on the status of the data points connected to the graphics. They can be used to create PX pages.

These templates use an intelligent engine that can associate the datapoints on the template with actual datapoints on the system based on the datapoint name. When a group of points that belong to the same piece of equipment is used on a schematic page, it will automatically bind with all the existing datapoints with limited, or no manual intervention.

There are two types of templates you can create with Easy Templating.

• Simple Template – A simple template is a created by adding required datapoints and graphics to a px page.
• Complex Template – A complex template is created by adding multiple simple template (.etso template) to a px page.

Easy Templating features

• Allows a px page template to be created for specific equipment type.
• Template can be used on equipment of similar type.
• Helps to reduce the engineering required to create complex schematics page.
• Allows complex and normal templates.
• Templates can be easily shared between users.
• Templates are version controlled.
• Allows easy maintenance of the projects to match the templates.

Relative Links

• Installation Requirements and Licensing

• Creating a Template

• Using a Template

• Common Operation of Easy Templating