No HMI alarm table? HMI side scripting?
Hello people
First off, I understand at the moment there is no built-in alarm table/display for HMI running as webserver from PLC, correct? I see it's listed on the roadmap as "next on the list" and not "work in progress", is there an estimate timeframe on when that is going to come? It's a bit of an important thing for many projects trying to use PLCNext as the HMI too.
On the other hand, I'm trying to implement my own, but I haven't found a good way to do HMI side scripting. Normally with other products you'd have the PLC and the HMI as separate products and thus HMI scripting would be a separate thing. Now, I realize here they're the same device (and it has some advantages), so I'm trying to implement it using PLC programming with IEC-61131 languages we all know, but obviously they're meant for PLCs so they aren't so good for handling what would be front end code.
What's the best way to go about making HMI oriented front end code for implementing, say, an alarm table or similar UI that would require some coding and not just grouping basic elements? Any examples?
I tried to do a quick test using C# programming but it seems the instructions are outdated? It mentioned there was suppossed to be a Windows installer then you use Visual Studio, but I could only find Linux compressed files. And I'm trying to see how to get some basic HMI scripting done without reinventing the wheel or having to spend many months learning a huge workflow (which I can't afford right now), so that's a factor too.