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DeltaV Operate 1920x1200 monitors with different startup picture for each SESSION using Layout file

This is a DeltaV Operate Startup graphics question regarding the Picture layout files for DeltaV 13.3.1. The client uses 1920x1200 resolution monitors (root of the problem) and we had to use the <DefaultVertical_1920x1080.layout> file to position the pictures for vertical monitor orientation. This works fine. But, the client requested that each individual Session should open a different startup graphic but the layout file is connected to the Workstation name, <COMPUTERNAME_Picture.Layout>, not the Session name, so each session will open the same startup graphic. It is possible to setup startup graphics for each Session in the <Usersettings.grf> file by using frsGetTerminalServerName but then the picture positioning is a mess for vertical setup due to the resolution. How do you open individual startup graphic for each session using the Layout files? I tried naming it <SESSIONNAME>_Picture.Layout.

• layout
• DeltaV #DCS
• 13.3.1
• Graphics

EvertZwarts

• 20 May 2022 12:12 PM
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• TreyB

  

  • 8 May 2023 9:05 PM

  Can we get a bump to this? I have 2 remote sessions with different layouts and the alarm banners are not positioned correctly. One is a 2x2 and the other is 4 across. Both on same server.

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• Andre Dicaire

  

  • 8 May 2023 10:09 PM

  In reply to TreyB:

  Don't have a good solution for you. I'm thinking that this is a product limitation iand would not be seen as a software defect to declare a need for a change to the product. The DeltaV Operate Layout files and their link to the host computer were a construct to solve Operator Station issues with display positioning and avoiding pixel level distortion when the picture area on given monitors ends up having different resolutions. The behavior of Operate in RDP with different client layouts on the same server is a different problem.
  
  A couple of ways around this, not elegant, that I can think of are:
  - move to VM's on a HyperV host. Each Remote Client then gets a dedicated Workstation session with layout file for customization. Down side is this eats up additional DeltaV Nodes out of the max 120 nodes for the system. It would also require a suitable server with a bit more capacity than the RD server.
  ( if you already VM the RD Server, standing up a few workstations for the Quad layouts might be a plausible path forward, keeping the RD Server for the common single monitor connections)
  
  - Deploy multiple RD Servers and allocate sessions based on client monitor layouts. i.e., enable RDP on Pro Plus for Engineering support and quad monitor stations for this purpose. Deploy a second Remote Client server for single monitor stations so all of them have a working layout.
  
  - Migrate to Live. Live provides a separate Layout with display sets for each RD Session. You can keep Operate on main stations and co exist on same system. Problem is to migrate all displays, which is a major project activity on its own.
  
  Hopefully someone has solved this natively and can provide a true solution.

  Andre Dicaire

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