Installed project item Templates

 

Control Architect provides a set of Templates to facilitate Control Conversion type tasks.  Control Conversion is basically defined as taking a source of data such as an Excel Spreadsheet file, converting the data values, and exporting the converted data files to a known data format such as a Honeywell Exception Build (EB) file or a Honeywell Cxxx XML configuration file.

 

The current release of Control Architect supports conversion of source data located in an Excel file to Honeywell C300 XML based configuration files for importing control strategies into an EPKS Server Engineering Repository Database (ERDB).  Typically this data will represent an engineering database or Hiway based configuration that has been parsed from Honeywell Exception Build (EB) files to an Excel file Data Source.  Control Architect supports parsing of EB files to Excel using a Workflow based task execution.

 

 

Control Architect provides a set of templates that provide configurable views for defining a Control conversion task.

 

 

The Control Property Template provides a view for defining Control properties or parameters.

 

 

The Control Binding Template provides a view for defining property binding relationships or mappings between source and target Control properties.  Binding transformation expressions written in C# language script are also supported to define how a source property value is converted to its target property value.

 

 

The Control Conversion Template provides a view for defining Control conversion tasks.  A Control conversion task allows you to attach an Excel file as a Data Source to a Control Binding template.  This Control conversion task when executed will generate a Data Collection view that specifies how Control strategies and their properties (parameters) will be updated.  A Workflow task can be defined that will attach to this generated Data Collection view and provide the actual Bulk Edit/Build operations.

 

 

This solution for converting Hiway data point configuration to PKS CEE resident Control strategies provides predefined sets of Control Conversion templates that when executed against a Hiway EB based Excel Data Source will convert all its contained Hiway Regulatory Box algorithms and PIU data point configurations.  This project solution is made available from AST and can be downloaded from its website upon request.

 

This solution is packaged into a Zip file that is referenced as the Import file to add as a new item to a Project folder in the Solution View.