Facility Control

I have a custom timer dashboard panel that I am running full screen, capturing and displaying in a multiviewer window in our control room so the entire crew can see it. To start and stop one of the timers, the operator uses a mouse to click start/stop. That works ok, but I'm wondering if it's possible to build an additional panel with timer control buttons that control the timer on the other panel?

When I create a new panel, the timers I've created for my other panels are not available. Is there a way to get a button on one panel to control a timer on another?

You cannot control the timer directly from another panel, but you can create a button in your timer panel that turns it on/off, and trigger that button from another panel.

1. Make a button in your timer panels that turns on the timer.   Give that button a TiggerID.   You can also make that button invisible if you prefer to not have it onscreen, by adding "visible=false" in its definition.

In your other panel, create a button, and use the "Fire GPI" visual logic block, like this:

That should trigger your other button.   Here are the 2 panels I used to test this out.

Timer Panel (with no actual timer, just an invisible button that would turn on a hypothetical timer.  That button prints "ON" in the debug console when triggered) 

<abs contexttype="opengear" id="_top" keepalive="false">
<button buttontype="push" gpi="TIMERON" height="62" left="101" name="Turn On" top="56" visible="false" width="144">
<task tasktype="ogscript">

/*! block id=1000 !*/
ogscript.debug("ON");
/*!!
&lt;block id="1000" type="ogscript_debug" x="10" y="100" w="243" MESSAGE="ON" /&gt;
!!*/
/*!!&lt;checksum&gt;a1d91dcf454f56f916ac0898484ba7da&lt;/checksum&gt;!!*/</task>
</button>
</abs>

Other Panel:

<abs contexttype="opengear" id="_top" keepalive="false">
<button buttontype="push" height="96" left="162" name="remote on" top="190" width="223">
<task tasktype="ogscript">

/*! block id=1001 !*/
ogscript.fireGPI("TIMERON", "", true);
/*!!
&lt;block id="1001" type="ogscript_gpio" x="10" y="100" w="243" GPI="TIMERON" STATE="" GLOBAL="true" /&gt;
!!*/
/*!!&lt;checksum&gt;0b55b984ba449a36f92d0750bc1411b8&lt;/checksum&gt;!!*/</task>
</button>
</abs>

That is brilliant Ben! Works perfectly and solves several workflow conundrums. Thanks so much