Automatic application wizard

• US 10,127,056 B2
• Filed: 03/05/2015
• Issued: 11/13/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: D'Souza, Aaron Francis, Bhadriraju, Lavanya, Ramesh, Soumya, Shivanagendra, Thejasvini, Sanghamitra, Gutha Stalin, Nagaraj, Subramanya Tavarekere, Moore, Kevin B.
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Tuyetlien T
• Application Number:
  US14/639,939
• Publication Number:
  US 20150248300A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,349 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/453 Help systems

Abstract

A system to automate creation of a configuration wizard from, for example, an underlying control application. In one instance, a complex application may be represented with a simple configuration view such as that of a configuration wizard. When an application is being created, a user may be provided with a feature that defines the configuration wizard. Some aspects of the present approach are that a wizard user interface may be automatically generated, a standard approach may be provided to define the wizard, and, for changes which are performed in the application, the wizard may easily be edited and regenerated.

Claims

1. A method for creating a wizard for a variable air volume (VAV) system, comprising:

creating an application for the VAV system in a computer based programming tool and saved within a memory of a controller, the application operably coupled to and configured to control, at least in part, the VAV system;

launching a utility for creating a VAV system wizard from the application, the utility displayed on a display;

discovering parameters from the application which can be exposed to a user in the wizard, at least one parameter of the parameters being a control variable for the VAV system;

obtaining a new template;

selecting, using a user input, which discovered parameters are to be exposed to the user in the wizard;

defining attributes including at least a data type, a limit or range for the selected parameters;

creating two or more steps;

re-ordering the two or more steps;

assigning selected parameters to at least one of the two or more steps;

rearranging the selected parameters under each step;

defining rules;

previewing the template; and

saving the template as the wizard which is retrievable from a library in the application and configured to be displayed on a display and executed in response to a user input to configure one or more parameters of the VAV system; and

wherein the utility is launchable from a work station, a building controller, and a multi-client operating system.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

launching a utility which opens the wizard for an application;

customizing settings according to needs of the user;

saving the settings; and

loading the application to a controller.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

launching a workstation;

dropping an application from the library to a worksheet upon which the wizard automatically appears;

customizing settings;

saving the settings; and

loading the application to a controller.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the customizing settings is according to needs of the user.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

launching a utility for using the wizard in a multi-client network operating system;

importing the template into the multi-client network operating system upon which the wizard automatically appears;

customizing settings; and

saving the settings.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the customizing settings is according to needs of the user.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein creating two or more steps comprises selecting at least one step from a standard block.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein defining rules comprises selecting rules from a library of rules.