DeltaV Operate Single Monitor

I have a Horizontal 2 monitor Setup. I want Deltav Operate to only open on a single Monitor (preferably the right monitor).

I have tried manipulating the UserSettings.grf File and layout files. 

I got Graphics to only load on 1 monitor but the Operate Program still takes up both monitors. The other monitor just has a blank gray background and no graphic.

I can resize the window to only 1 monitor but when i switch between Edit and Run mode the Operate Program goes back to using both monitors. 

Is there any way to limit DeltaV Operate to only 1 monitor?

  • Hi

    You are having horizontal two monitor setup .
    Means second monitor is nothing but the extension of first monitor . So both monitor will dispaly same thing.
    If we did different graphics or any thing , for different monitors . Then it will become acts as two operator station .

    Hope this will be usefull.

    Regards

    Prashant.
  • The software detects the number of monitors when it launches and determines the size of the Operate window, which if the dimensions create a supported "size", it fills the available monitor space. I'm not aware of a setting that will allow Operate to always open on a single monitor. But I wonder if you set one monitor to a different size than the other, would it some how force Operate to initialize to only use the first monitor.

    If you were to use a Thin Client to RDP to the Operate computer, you can set the RDP session to only use one monitor. That works well for Remote access clients, but you would need to change your basic hardware setup.

    Another approach is to run DeltaV as a VM on your computer. The VM can be handled as a single monitor application. Not something I would do for the main Operator stations, but this sounds like a secondary user station and you want to run other applications on the computer. Isolating DeltaV Operate in its own VM keeps it separate and avoids unexpected OS and application issues and you are not Installing/Running those apps in the same OS as the DeltaV station.

    There may be a way to modify the initialization scripts to always set the number of monitors to 1. However, I don't know if that is possible and may not be supported. you might end up with other unexpected behaviors. This would be a science project and need a lot of testing, and in the end many not yield results desired.

    Andre Dicaire

  • There's a setting in Usersettings that forces Operate to only one monitor. It has worked for me on my Simulate system. Never tried it on a Production system.

    ' Multi-Monitor INITIALIZATION
    '
    ' Note: You can ignore this section for single monitor systems (i.e. multi-monitor
    ' functions will already be disabled).
    '
    ' To disable multi-monitor functionality when using dual-monitor or quad-monitor
    ' hardware, uncomment the following line. This results in DeltaV Operate opening
    ' pictures only on one monitor. Only one toolbar, alarm banner, and main picture
    ' appear. You can still use the other monitors for other applications.
    '
    ' frsVariables.gn_mh_disabled.currentvalue = 1

  • In reply to JoshC:

    One thing I forgot to mention. You need to maximize Operate in order for it to fit one screen (i.e. remove the unused grey area). You can either do this manually or add the following VBA on startup:
    Application.WindowState = 3