Active Workflow Banner

The Active Workflow Banner displays information about Interactive Workflows which are currently displaying content from either a Display, File or Decision block. This is used to inform the operator of any Interactive Workflows currently queued or running.

To use an Active Workflow Banner in your Display Layout, follow the steps below.

  1. In the Project Explorer, double-click the Display Layout to edit. Alternatively, right-click to Add a new one.
  2. Drag and drop the Active Workflow Banner from the Toolbox into the work area.
  3. In the Properties grid, click the Columns button to open the Column Header Editor.
  4. You can remove or reposition the following columns:
    Workflow Title The Title of the active Workflow.
    Timestamp The date and time of when the Workflow was triggered.
    Priority The assigned Priority number for the Workflow.
  5. Select a column to change its properties:
    Table 1. Column Header Settings
    Background The Background color of the header.
    Font Settings — Font Name The Name of the Font used in the column header.
    Font Settings — Font Size The Size of the header text.
    Font Settings — Is Bold Check this to Bold the header text.
    Font Settings — Is Italic Check this to italicize the header text.
    Font Settings — Line Spacing The spacing between lines of text in the header.
    Font Settings — Strikethrough Check this to add a Strikethrough to the header text.
    Font Settings — Text Alignment The Alignment of the column header text.
    Font Settings — Text Color The Color of the column header text.
    Font Settings — Underlined Check this to underline the column header text.
    Title The text for the column header.
    Width The Width of the column in pixels.
    Row Background Color The Background Color displayed on the rows.
    Minimum Row Height The smallest height the rows can have. If the font size of the row text requires more space, the row will automatically resize to fit the text.
    Table 2. Row Font
    Font Name The Font used for the rows.
    Font Color The Color used for the row text.
    Font Size The Size of the text in the rows.
    Is Bold Check this to Bold the row text.
    Is Italic Check this to italicize the row text.
    Table 3. Runtime Settings
    Allow Runtime Filtering Check this to allow filtering on this column in Runtime.
    Allow Runtime Sorting Check this to allow sorting on this column in Runtime.
    Note: If conditional formatting is used, the above settings will be overridden.
  6. Once you have configured your columns, click OK.
  7. To apply conditional formatting to the rows, select Format in the Properties grid to open the Conditional Formatting Rules Manager.

The Active Workflow Banner will by default display Workflows in the order to be executed. This is determined by the priority of the Workflow, unless it was triggered from another using the Execute Workflow block. In that case, it will be executed after the Workflow it was called from.