Reference Pages

This section is for various reference pages that may fall outside of a specific section in the User Manual.

📂 Gateway Configuration File Reference

📄️ Charting - Right Click Menu

Learn more about the right-click menu on Vision's Easy Chart Component

📄️ Gateway Port Reference

The following table describes the default ports an Ignition server may use for communication.

📄️ Color Selector Reference

Learn more about the color selection interface here

📄️ Ignition Database Table Reference

Ignition has a lot of systems built in that will query the database automatically without requiring you to build a query. These systems automatically create the necessary tables in the database, insert the relevant data, and even query it back out for you. However, because this data is all stored in simple database tables, it can be manually accessed using queries to customize how you see the data.

📄️ Perspective Event Types Reference

Learn more about events available under the Configure Events menu on Perspective components.

📄️ Style Reference

Learn more about the style user interface used in Perspective

📂 Symbol Reference

📄️ Data Type Formatting Reference

This page formatting patterns for dates, numbers, and strings.

📄️ Scripting Object Reference

This page describes several common scripting objects

📄️ Crontab Formatting Reference

This page provides an overview on using crontab

📄️ Logback XML File Reference

This page describes the logback.xml file located in the installation directory

📄️ Gateway XML File Reference

This page describes the gateway.xml file located in the installation directory

📄️ resource.json File

This page describes the contents on resource.json files

📄️ System Name Usage Reference

Learn more about how the system name property on a gateway is referenced by other systems within Ignition