Projects Hmi Lifecycle

Goal

Create a PLC with HMI project, author the control logic in the IDE, and design its operator screens in the HMI editor.

Note

The portal alone is enough to build the project. To view the HMI running against live values you also need a runtime — see HMI runtime overview.

Before you start

• Prerequisites: A signed-in account in an organization that allows project creation.
• Required role/permission: An Editor/Admin-level role. Viewers cannot create or edit projects.
• Settings that affect behavior:
  • Project type = PLC with HMI — chosen at creation; this is what enables the HMI screens section (resolution-based views with one or more pages) on top of the PLC elements. See Project types.
  • HMI resolutions — each HMI view is tied to a resolution; add the resolution(s) your target screen needs before laying out pages.
  • Project access and Licensing — as for any project.

Steps

1. Open Projects at /portal/projects and create a new project of type PLC with HMI.
2. Open it in the IDE (/portal/workspace/ide/:id) and author the PLC logic (POUs, tasks) as in the PLC lifecycle.
3. Switch to the HMI section of the project and open the HMI editor (/portal/workspace/visualization/:id).
4. Add a resolution if needed, then add pages and place components, binding them to project/global variables.
5. Build the project (Builds, /portal/workspace/builds/:id).
6. Deploy to a runtime to view it live — see HMI runtime overview.

No captured steps yet. Run make regenerate-flows after a portal-e2e:docflow pipeline run produces docflow-output/projects-hmi-lifecycle.json.

Related

• Project types
• HMI editor
• IDE overview
• HMI runtime overview