Remote object data property replication method and system
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1. A method, comprising:
- storing an object correlating to at least one parameter of an industrial automation device on a human machine interface configured to monitor, control, or monitor and control processes of an industrial automation system affected by the industrial automation device;
designating a visual representation of the object in a display screen of a remote workstation;
accessing, from the human machine interface, any properties, connections, and text associated with the object in response to a trigger event, the trigger event originating from the remote workstation;
storing, on the human machine interface where the object is stored, an entity configured to store any accessed properties, connections, and text wherein the entity is smaller than the object; and
creating, via the entity, an identical copy of the object in response to a second trigger event originating from the remote workstation, wherein the identical copy includes any accessed properties, connections and text associated with the object.
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In one embodiment, a method is provided that includes designating a visual representation of an object in a display screen of a human machine interface, accessing any properties, connections, and text associated with the object in response to a trigger event, and creating an identical copy in response to the trigger event, wherein the identical copy includes any properties, connections and text associated with the object. An interface system that includes a machine readable medium having programming code implementing the method. An industrial automation device is also provided.
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1. A method, comprising:
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storing an object correlating to at least one parameter of an industrial automation device on a human machine interface configured to monitor, control, or monitor and control processes of an industrial automation system affected by the industrial automation device; designating a visual representation of the object in a display screen of a remote workstation; accessing, from the human machine interface, any properties, connections, and text associated with the object in response to a trigger event, the trigger event originating from the remote workstation; storing, on the human machine interface where the object is stored, an entity configured to store any accessed properties, connections, and text wherein the entity is smaller than the object; and creating, via the entity, an identical copy of the object in response to a second trigger event originating from the remote workstation, wherein the identical copy includes any accessed properties, connections and text associated with the object. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. An interface system, comprising
a tangible, non-transitory, machine readable medium, comprising machine-readable instructions to: -
designate a visual representation of an object correlating to a parameter of an industrial automation device in a display screen of a remote workstation; and create an identical copy of the object by; generating an entity based upon the object, wherein the entity is smaller than the object at a location where the object is stored; creating the identical copy from the entity at the location where the object is stored, wherein the identical copy includes any properties, connections and text associated with the object. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. An industrial automation, comprising:
a workstation comprising; a display configured to present a user viewable screen displaying a visual representation of an object correlating to a parameter of an industrial automation device, wherein the object comprises a plurality of properties, connections, and text associated with the object; and a processor configured to; receive, via an entity smaller than the object, the plurality of properties, connections, and text associated with the object from a remote human machine interface where the object is stored in response to a trigger event originating from the user viewable screen; and provide a request to create an identical copy of the object on the remote human machine interface in response to the trigger event, wherein the identical copy includes any properties, connections and text associated with the object, and wherein the identical copy is created from the entity. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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