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Human Machine Interface
This chapter explains what a Human Machine Interface (HMI) is and how 
you can monitor and control tags from your HMI. This chapter also 
describes several general principles of HMI programming in G, and 
provides activities that illustrate how to accomplish the following: 
Build your HMI using the HMI G Wizard
Customize front panel objects with imported graphics
Note
To understand the concepts, and to complete most tasks associated with building 
an HMI, you should be familiar with the basic functionality of G programming. 
If you have not completed the 
 section of this manual, you should do 
so now. 
The example diagrams shown in this chapter are taken from several HMI 
examples you can find in the 
BridgeVIEW\Examples\HMI Examples
 
folder.
What Is an HMI?
An HMI is the interface through which an operator interacts with the 
BridgeVIEW system and with the outside environment that BridgeVIEW 
monitors and controls. The operator is the end user of the system.
To monitor the changes in configured tags in real time, you can build one 
or more Human Machine Interface (HMI) applications.
BridgeVIEW includes a set of VIs with which you can control your HMI, 
access the Real-Time Database and Citadel, perform calculations and logic, 
and switch between different displays. The BridgeVIEW VI library 
includes Alarms and Events VIs, Historical Data VIs, System VIs, Tags 
VIs, and Tag Attributes VIs. For more information about these VIs, see 
Appendix A, 
. For more information about the 
G VI Library, see the Online Reference.