Menu - a complete navigation system
for Proficy iFIX Navigation system for *Proficy iFIX, with a familiar Windows look-and-feel,
all easily user-configurable without programming.
Menu is immediately intuitive to any
Microsoft user, with familiar functions
like “Back”, “Forward”, “Home” and
“Favorites” as standard. Users can
navigate to any iFIX picture, plus
standard iFIX functions like Workspace
configure, Database Manager and
Mission Control. They can also include
standard iFIX operations, for example
alarm horn on/off, login and print
picture. Menus can even be configured
to run VBA scripts.
Menu even provides automatic picture
inclusion, so new pictures can be
immediately and automatically added
into just the right place in the menu.
Navigation Functions
Menu provides common Windows and
Internet navigation functions that are
instantly familiar:
• Back - Recalls previously displayed
picture or pictures
• Forward - Returns after using ‘Back’
• Home - Displays your chosen home
or start-up picture
• Favorites - Lets each user add/
organize quick access to their
personal favorite displays
Active X Control
Menu is an ActiveX Control inserted
into an iFIX picture during configure
mode in the iFIX Workspace. The
menu is delivered with useful default
settings, but is easily user-configured
without programming.
Standard iFIX Function Support Multi-tier Menus Run VBA
Menu supports the following iFIX Any top level menu can have multiple Configure menus and sub-menus to
functions: levels of nested sub-menus. trigger your VBA scripts.
• Acknowledge picture
• Alarm horn toggle
• Alarm horn silence Menu is available for Proficy iFIX
• Close picture systems version 4.5 and later.
• Database manager
• Exit workspace *Proficy and iFIX are trademarks of
• Login/Logout GE Intelligent Platforms, Inc.
• Mission control
• Operator message Menu is developed by Catapult
• Open picture Software Limited, automation software
• Open picture group developers since 1991 and developers
• Print picture of Proficy iFIX applications since 1999.
• Switch to configure
• VBA script

Automatic Picture Insertion

You can configure Menu to
automatically include any new pictures
into the appropriate location in your
menu structure. Different types of
pictures can be easily directed into
different menus or sub-menus, based
simply on how you name them. It is
easy to set up, 100% flexible and
completely automatic.

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