When you develop a global object for an AOI, you are developing a re-usable component that can be
developed once and referenced mutiple times in your HMI application. Child reference objects can have
difference data sources while still maintaining the link to all other aspects of the parent global objects.
Your global object will be mapped to different parameters of your AOI. When deployed, the user only has
to reference the AOI tag and does not have to care what the “guts” of the global object are.
Note: This is an advanced lab and it’s presumed you are proficient in making screens. This lab will not
give details as to how to add graphic objects to the screen, such as buttons or multi-state displays. A
library file is provided that contains all the graphical components used in this lab – you may use the
components from the library or draw the components yourself. It’s up to you!
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