TouchVue Overview
TouchVue is a mobile application that displays information about PcVue variables, and alarm notifications, on a mobile device such as a smart phone or tablet. The information is supplied by the PcVue Web & mobile back end server. The variables that are eligible for display are primarily selected by matching their Browse Level to the Browse Level configured in the profile of the TouchVue user. 
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See Web and Mobile Client Applications Overview for an overview of Web & Mobile client applications, including their common requirements and common deployment steps.
The configuration steps specific for TouchVue access to PcVue are as follows:
- Make sure you have properly configured the Mobile server settings available in the Application Explorer. It includes the variable and alarm properties that should be displayed in the TouchVue App detailed views, and the default filter for alarm notification,
- Make sure the variable Browse level matches your need, so that the proper variables and alarms are accessible to the intended users via TouchVue,
- Have users install the TouchVue mobile application on their mobile device.
This book includes detailed information about how to design your project so that users can successfully take advantage of the TouchVue mobile application:
- For information about developing a project for TouchVue, see the book Mobile server.
- For information about TouchVue user configuration, see the topic Properties that affect access to Web Apps and Web Services in the Application Explorer book and Configuring mobile applications users.
- For information about using TouchVue, see the book Starting TouchVue.
Summary of the main TouchVue views
The views are all accessed from the drawer menu opened by a swipe from the left border of the screen, or from the menu tool found at the top left of most views.
- Inbox - List of recent alarm notifications from all connected accounts. See the Inbox view topic.
- Watch list - List of watched variables from all connected accounts. See the Watch list view topic.
- For each configured account
- Browsing - The root of PcVue variables, from where you can navigate to the views that display the variables lists and individual variable details for the account. See the Browsing view topic.
- Watch list - A list of the watched variables for the account. See the Watch list view topic.
- Alarmlist - A list of current alarms for the account. See the Alarm list view topic.
- Logs - Selection of a log list and the display of the events it has recorded. See the Logs view topic.
- Settings - TouchVue user configurable settings. See the Settings view topic.
- Accounts - Configure user accounts and display their status. See the Accounts view topic.
TouchVue makes use of the Notification Area to notify the user of the status of selected alarms.
Licensing TouchVue
The components necessary to run TouchVue are included on the PcVue distribution media or the Windows distribution media.
The maximum number of simultaneous TouchVue sessions is license-protected.
Terminology
For readers not familiar with mobile platforms terminology here are some of the terms in common use:
- View - The term used for a graphic display page occupying the entire screen.
- Notification area - A small area, not used by any app's views, reserved for notifications requiring the user's attention. Normally at the top of a smart phone or the bottom of a tablet.
- Gestures - The finger movements to interact with a touch screen:
- Touch or Tap - Touch the screen Press and lift immediately.
- Long touch or Long tap - Touch the screen, wait, lift.
- Swipe - Touch the screen, move, lift.
- Drag - Long touch, move, lift.
- Double touch or Double tap - Two touches in quick succession.
- Pinch open - 2-finger touch, move outwards, lift.
- Pinch close - 2-finger touch, move inwards, lift.
- Drawer menu - A menu generally opened by a left swipe. Known as a drawer because of the way in which it opens.