# About controller instruction faceplate displays

Controller instruction faceplates have been organized into different display files based on varying functionalities offered in each display.

- Main Faceplate - generally used for monitoring an instruction.
- Status Faceplate - used in viewing the status and invalid configuration indicators.
- Configuration Faceplate - used to manipulate the settings that determine the instruction's behavior.
- Other supporting Faceplates - provide very specialized functionality or views into the operation of the instruction.

The faceplates have been designed so that security can easily be added at the display level. For example, configuration information will exist on its own display. For a given instruction, a main faceplate will be accessible to everyone. The other faceplates, such as configuration or tuning, may not.

Faceplate displays are built from global objects. For each faceplate display there is a global object file that contains the base objects for the faceplate.

Each faceplate has a toolbar that provides a means of navigating to other displays related to that instruction.

## Use the Displays

When using the Controller Instruction Faceplates consider the following:

- You can add the Controller Instruction Faceplate global objects (*.ggfx), reference displays (.gfx), and image (*.bmp) files to your application automatically by right-clicking the application server name and selecting Add Controller Instruction Faceplates.
- Adding faceplate displays to an application affects the license count. Each added faceplate display (.gfx file) counts as one display for activation purposes. The corresponding global object display (.ggfx file) does not add to the total license count.
- When launching the faceplates, create and specify a parameter file containing the expected parameters for the faceplate even though they may not be used on the main faceplate.
- Parameter file references will need to be specified on the toolbar Goto Display buttons of faceplates used in your application.
- You can make changes to the display or make changes to the global object.
- Global object link property settings for the Controller Instruction Faceplates are:
  - LinkAnimation = Link with Expressions
  - LinkConnections = True
  - LinkSize = True
- Controller instruction faceplates were developed using Arial bold fonts. These fonts are typically not natively found on industrial computers such as the PanelView Plus CE or PanelView Plus. See Answer ID 29044 for information on installing Arial Bold fonts, contained in the arialbd.ttf file.

## See also

About controller instruction faceplates

About controller instruction faceplate global objects

Set global object defaults

Parameter file and parameter list

Controller instruction faceplates tag passing

Add controller instruction faceplates