Configuration

Configuration Menu How the configuration navigation is organized and how to reach the configuration pages from the Envision editor and from the configuration pages themselves. 3 min read / updated 28 Oct 2026 Configuration Tables How to search, filter, sort, and arrange columns in the configuration and viewer tables. 3 min read / updated 10 Jul 2026 Parameters Manual for the Parameters configuration page in the configuration area. 27 min read / updated 30 Oct 2026 Pages Manual for Pages configuration in the configuration area. 4 min read / updated 13 Oct 2026 Translations Manual for the Translations configuration page: the operator texts of the project and their translation per project language, edited in a table, imported and exported as CSV. 7 min read / updated 9 Oct 2026 Network Topology Manual for the Network Nodes, Network Links and Network Node Types configuration pages: the project-wide network picture that the Network Topology object draws, in which every device is a node automatically. 8 min read / updated 28 Oct 2026 Variable Status Reference for the status that every runtime variable carries next to its value, where it is shown, and the Unknown status of a point that has not delivered a value yet. 4 min read / updated 22 Sep 2026

Modbus TCP Manual for Modbus TCP devices and variables in the configuration area. 15 min read / updated 28 Oct 2026 EthernetIP Manual for EthernetIP devices and variables in the configuration area. 12 min read / updated 17 Jul 2026 EtherNet/IP Generic Manual for generic EtherNet/IP device and variable configuration using CIP explicit messaging in the configuration area. 13 min read / updated 27 Oct 2026 Beckhoff ADS Manual for Beckhoff ADS device and variable configuration for TwinCAT systems in the configuration area. 14 min read / updated 27 Oct 2026 OPC UA Manual for OPC UA devices and variables in the configuration area. 17 min read / updated 24 Oct 2026 DNP3 Manual for DNP3 device and variable configuration in the configuration area. 18 min read / updated 28 Sep 2026 BACnet Manual for BACnet/IP device and variable configuration in the configuration area. 15 min read / updated 28 Oct 2026 IEC104 Manual for IEC 60870-5-104 device and variable configuration in the configuration area. 17 min read / updated 29 Sep 2026 IEC61850 Manual for IEC 61850 (MMS client) device and variable configuration in the configuration area. 46 min read / updated 27 Oct 2026 MELSEC Manual for Mitsubishi MELSEC device and variable configuration in the configuration area. 14 min read / updated 27 Oct 2026 Omron FINS Manual for Omron FINS device and variable configuration in the configuration area. 20 min read / updated 28 Oct 2026 S7 Manual for Siemens Simatic S7 device and variable configuration in the configuration area. 13 min read / updated 29 Sep 2026 S7 Plus Manual for Siemens S7 Plus (S7CommPlus) device and variable configuration in the configuration area. 13 min read / updated 29 Sep 2026 MQTT Manual for MQTT clients, devices, and variables in the configuration area. 18 min read / updated 24 Oct 2026 Kafka Devices Manual for Kafka devices, the variables linked to them, and the Kafka Variables page in the configuration area. 15 min read / updated 24 Oct 2026 ICMP Devices Manual for ICMP devices in the configuration area. 2 min read / updated 14 Jul 2026 Local Variables Manual for Local Variables configuration in the configuration area. 14 min read / updated 23 Oct 2026

MQTT Publishers Manual for MQTT Publishers configuration in the configuration area. 33 min read / updated 24 Oct 2026 MQTT Broker Manual for the embedded MQTT broker, its users, and topic access control. 7 min read / updated 24 Oct 2026 Data Forwarders Manual for Data Forwarders configuration in the configuration area. 10 min read / updated 9 Oct 2026 Database Connections Manual for the Database Connections configuration page: named connections to external databases used by Data Grid objects and Data Forwarders. 7 min read / updated 22 Oct 2026

Python Scripts Manual for Python Scripts configuration in the configuration area, including reusable modules, calling scripts from other scripts, runtime status variables, and the execution timeout watchdog. 28 min read / updated 25 Oct 2026 Converters Manual for Converters configuration in the configuration area. 2 min read / updated 22 Jul 2026 Report Designer Manual for the Report Designer: building graphical reports from live data, Historian data, alarms, events, the audit trail, and project SQLite files, with PDF and Excel output, multi page templates, banded and free canvas layouts, calculations, and Python hooks. 34 min read / updated 5 Oct 2026

Asset Manager Manual for the Asset Manager plant hierarchy in the configuration area. 10 min read / updated 8 Aug 2026 UDT Manager Manual for UDT definitions and instances in the configuration area. 37 min read / updated 28 Oct 2026 UDT Tokens and Expressions Reference for the tokens and compute expressions used in UDT definitions, parameters and the Add Instance dialog. 5 min read / updated 1 Aug 2026

Alarms Manual for Alarms configuration in the configuration area. 13 min read / updated 22 Oct 2026 Events Manual for Events configuration in the configuration area. 4 min read / updated 28 Sep 2026 Schedules Manual for Schedules configuration in the configuration area. 7 min read / updated 3 Sep 2026 Special Days Manual for Special Days configuration in the configuration area. 2 min read / updated 3 Sep 2026

Users Manual for Users configuration in the configuration area. 3 min read / updated 14 Jul 2026 User Groups Manual for User Groups configuration in the configuration area. 5 min read / updated 13 Oct 2026