Redesigned Ignition Software Open for Public Testing

Announced last fall during Inductive Automation’s Ignition Community Conference, version 8 of the company’s principal software platform has moved out of initial beta testing and is now open for public beta testing atinductiveautomation.com。10月以来，超过1,000个私人测试博物馆一直在为4月8日开展点火，其积极的结果是LED归纳自动化在2019年弧行业论坛上正式宣布的，该软件的新版本将在4月份全面发布。

During a presentation at the event, Carl Gould, co-director of development at Inductive Automation, provided more information about the new version, expanding on最初在点火社区会议上提供的详细信息。这些额外的见解很大程度上集中在点火8的企业级架构，安全性和移动方面。

“We’ve made it easier for large teams to work together building projects in Ignition in collaborative, concurrent development with no designer lockouts,” Gould said in reference to the enterprise architecture capabilities of the new software. “This allows for big projects to be completed more quickly. And with the addition of project inheritance capabilities, when you make a project, it can inherit resources from other projects. This means that you can define and reuse templates across multiple projects, and even create corporate standard templates that can be customized for each site.”

一个组件架构的大调的所做的更改ing the redesign of Ignition involved the software’s underlying tag system. Gould said Inductive Automation added User Defined Types (UDTs—a tool used in Ignition to build and update tag models) on top of the software’s existing tag system in version 7.4. This addition, and the ease it brought to tagging in Ignition, led more of the company’s customers to move past the million-tag mark.

The problem with this, Gould explained, is that when you use UDTs in such a large system—i.e., a million plus tags—rolling out changes takes time, which can cause slowness. “So, in planning for the future, we rebuilt the tag system for development at scale,” he said.

This change means Ignition can handle tag editing 190x faster, move tags 90x faster, and enable 18x faster tag browsing and 15x faster tag importing.

Another enterprise-level enhancement to Ignition involves source control. Gould said this capability has been a major request of customers who like to use source (or version) control tools from sites like Github. “This required a ton of work and difficult changes to the core of the platform,” Gould noted. “But the software is now fully compatible with source control systems to help users manage deployment and automated testing. As difficult as it was to enables this, we love positioning Ignition so it can work with state-of-the-art tools.”

要了解有关归纳自动化对源控制的关注，以及一般开源软件，阅读：“开源软件正在更改自动化。”

Our earlier关于点火宣布的文章8详细说明点火为新的可视化模块周围的功能，称为透视图。“这不是一个楼梯的桌面移动应用程序，这已经弥合了网络，”古尔德说。“它是从头开始设计的，以提供真正的移动体验，可以在任何浏览器上运行 - 甚至可以在能够加入移动设备本机应用程序，如相机，传感器和GPS功能。”

他指出，视觉应用程序（以前的点火性可视化工具）将继续在点火器8中工作，但不会成为透视应用程序。

Explaining how Perspective was optimized for speed, Gould highlighted the fact that no polling is involved in the visualization process. “It’s all done via push, so there’s no delay,” he said. “And any new capabilities users add to the software are available as soon as they hit save.”

A demo of Perspective is available in Apple’s App Store, Google Play, and atdemo.inductiveautomation.com。

Gould还注意到，透视不仅仅是一个基于Web的仪表板系统，而​​是一个具有“完整的双向功能来设置食谱和控制设备的工具。将我们带到点火8的安全更新的功能集。

According to Gould, Ignition 8 now offers federated identity capability. This refers to the way in which a person'selectronic identity can be stored across multiple distinctidentity management systems. As an example of this, Gould referenced how it’s possible to sign in to different systems using a Google ID. Essentially, this capability enables single sign-on and two-factor authentication security features.