Designing a Project
When you launch the Designer, you're asked to select or create a project. The Designer then launches the project and you can set and modify the different types of project settings and resources. In the Designer, you can create any number of projects. Projects that contains viewable elements, such as windows or reports, will have a launch link on the Gateway homepage. Otherwise, the project runs in the Gateway and will not have a Client runtime.
There is no limits to the number of projects that can be created on a Gateway, but each runtime Client or the Designer can operate only on one project at a time.

You use the different tools in Ignition such as components, shapes, images, Symbol Factory graphics, and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVGs) to create the components. Configuring components is the bulk of the designer's work when designing a Vision project. The basic workflow is to take a component from the palette and drop it into a container on a window. you can use the Property Editor panel to alter the component's properties, which changes the component's appearance and behavior.
To make the component do something useful, like display dynamic information or control a device register, you configure property bindings for the component. To make the component react to user interaction, you configure event handlers for it.
It is primarily through property bindings that you bring windows to life, and have them do useful things. A property binding simply links one component's property to another on the same window.
The power of property bindings comes from the variety of different binding types that exist, and the fact that you can bind nearly any property of a component to anything else. Want its foreground to turn red when an alarm is above a certain severity? Bind its LED Lit (glyphForeground
) color to a tag's AlertCurrentSeverity
property. Want it to only appear if a supervisor is on shift? Bind its visible property to the result of a SQL query that joins a personnel table with a shift table. The possibilities are quite literally, endless.