Web.

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InfoPlus.21 Foundation Course

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 What is Web.21?
• An AspenTech solution that allows you to manage real-
time and historical process data within a web
environment (Company Intranet or public Internet)
• Benefits:
– No need for special programs – just use a web browser – so
available on any workstation connected to the web
– Present process data in the same context as other important
business information
• Features:
– Rich set of out-of-the-box functionality
– Development toolkit for creating custom applications

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 Web.21 Users
• General Users
– “Out of the box” template can be
deployed for general users –
immediate generic functionality
with no scripting or programming
necessary
• Content-Developers
– Need only limited knowledge of
scripting and DHTML
• Component-Developers
– Need detailed knowledge of
scripting and DHTML

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 Architecture
• Web.21 employs a “three-tier” architecture
Internet Explorer Web.21 server InfoPlus.21
supplies “active” web
pages in the
Business Logic tier
Web
page data

User visualizes data on InfoPlus.21, Aspen

web pages using Web Calc and relational
browser (e.g., Internet databases in the
Explorer) and Web.21 Data Server tier
ActiveX controls in the Web.21 Server supply data
Data Visualization
Client tier
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 Overview of Web.21 Features
• Out of the box, Web.21
comes with the ability to:
– Trend process data
– Search for tags
– View tags in alarm
– View CIM-IO transfer
records
– View Aspen Calc Information

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 Web.21 Trend Plot
• Trend plots are a
useful tool for
displaying recent or
historic process
behavior

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 Point Detail Page (1)
• Information can be obtained
from additional fields than
those presented in the legend

• Choosing this menu option will

open another window with the
Point Detail Page

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 Point Detail Page (2)
Fields can be viewed and modified if the user has valid permissions

Data can be
manually
entered from A table is
the detail provided with
page historical data
for the
For example, selected tag
and alarm
can be
acknowledged

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 Alarm Summary

A dynamic
list of tags
in an alarm
state

Values
update in
real-time

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 Alarm Log
• The Alarm Log
page is for viewing
historical
information on
records that have
been in an alarm
condition
• The Alarm Log
page shows the:
– Time of the alarm
– Tag name and
description
– Tag value
– Alarm state

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 IO Status Summary
• Allows the user to view CIM-IO transfer record information

Helpful for trouble

shooting CIM-IO
problems remotely
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 IO Status Log
• A historical view of CIM-IO messages

• Helpful for troubleshooting

• The alarm summary view offers the current status

of CIM-IO transfer records, whereas the alarm log
is a view with detailed CIM-IO messages
throughout a period of time

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 Aspen Calc (1)
• Web.21 provides a viewer to the Aspen Calc server

• What can be viewed?

– Formulas for existing calculations
– When calculations were last executed
– Errors that occurred in calculations
– Function libraries

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 Aspen Calc (2)
• The main features of the Aspen Calc pages are:
– Calculation Summaries and Error displays
– Formula Summaries and Libraries
– Schedule Summary
– Unit Summary

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 Calculation Summaries
• Display of all
calculations on the
Aspen Calc server

• Clicking a
calculation name
will take you to the
Calculations Detail
page

• Libraries and
formulas can also
be used as hotlinks
to a detail page

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 Error Display
• Display of all calculations currently in error on the Aspen
Calc server

Helpful for
trouble-
shooting
remotely

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 Customizing Web.21
• Web.21 content developers are now able to extend the
basic functionality of Web.21 using the controls delivered
as part of the development kit

• The installation of the Web.21

components includes a set of
Microsoft FrontPage add-ins. This
allows users to create new Web.21
pages and add components with only
a few clicks of the mouse

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 The FrontPage Add-ins
• The Microsoft FrontPage add-ins are a set of design time
controls that allow development of Web.21 pages without
any scripting

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 Design-Time Controls
• The add-ins are considered
Design-Time Controls (DTCs)
• The DTCs are essentially
Web.21 object “wrappers” that
allow content developers to
create custom pages, without
scripting
• These DTCs are configured
using a GUI. Scripting can be
used for added functionality,
but is not required

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 Viewing in the Web.21 Browser
• In this sample ASP
page, several Design
Time Controls are
configured to display
real-time data for the
tag ATCL101
• When this page is
saved from the
FrontPage Editor, it
can be viewed in the
Web.21 site

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 Web.21 Graphics Studio
• Web.21 now features a full graphics editing and
publishing capability
• The Graphics Studio is able to deliver a powerful and
flexible process graphics capability, using Java
technology, direct to the web browser

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 Graphics Studio Features
• Ability to represent a process via a schematic
constructed with static and dynamic objects
• Data for dynamic objects can be updated in real-time

• Complex objects, or symbols, can be built by grouping

several primitive objects together
• Libraries of pre-configured graphics are provided

• Graphics are compiled into Java applets and are easily

implemented on the Web.21 site

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 Graphics Studio Environment

Object
Toolbar

Project
Manager
Graphic
Building Area

Symbol
Manager

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 Building Graphics

• In the Graphics Studio there are two kinds of objects:

– Static objects (do not change at run time)
– Dynamic objects (can change during run-time)

Static Objects Dynamic Objects

examples are line, examples are data fields,
polyline, rectangle, bar graphs, command
polygon, ellipse, buttons
arc, images, or text
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 Dynamic Actions
• Actions can be scripted for dynamic objects that are
triggered by specific events
• Action scripts are based on Java

• The available events are:

– OnLoad
– OnUnload
– OnClick
– OnEnter

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 Viewing the Graphic in the Browser
• Once the graphic
has been saved
from the Web.21
Graphics Studio
application, it can
be compiled and
viewed in the
Web.21 browser
• Graphics are
compiled into a
Java class and
added to the
navigation bar of
the Web.21 site

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 Web.21 Provides Two Security Models
• Level-Based Security
– For Securing the Web Server so that data isn’t written to
InfoPlus.21 version 2.5.1 and 3.0 systems

• Role-Based Security
– Which utilizes the security provided with InfoPlus.21 version
3.1 and higher

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 Where to Find Out More
• Attend the Web.21 Introductory Course (3 days)

• Manuals and Knowledge Base articles are available on

the Technical Support Website
http://support.aspentech.com

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