Project Life Cycle

The process of defining and publishing a project consists of the following stages:

Creating a New Project: Click New to create a new project.

Configuring the Project Definitions: The process of defining a project involves defining each of the branches in the project tree:

Validating a Project for Errors:, Click Validate to validate the main project by analyzing the project's objects and to display a list of erroneous objects that describes each object's error (see Validating Project Errors

Generating a Project: Click Generate to generate the project files locally on the Real-Time Designer machine. The files that are generated are described in Projects. This option is for testing purposes only. When you publish the project, it is generated again.

Running a Project: Click Run Real-Time Client to run the project locally for testing purposes.

Monitoring a Solution: Click Monitor to debug a running project as a Real-Time Client by viewing and affecting its values and processes behind the scenes.

Publishing a Project: Click Publish to upload the project files to the Real-Time server. The server prepares tables for such things as the data collection aspect of the project.

Assigning Solutions: Use the Solution Assignment branch in the tree to specify which solutions are downloaded by the Real-Time server to which users of the Real-Time Client when it launches. Refer to the System Administration Guide for details.