Data Driven Graphical User Interface in
Vacuum Control Applications

L.Kopylov, M.Mikheev, N.Trofimov
Institute for High Energy Physics
Protvino, Russia

P.Strubin, M.Steffensen
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland


It is always a serious challenge to develop a synoptic based Graphical User Interface for the large installations due to unhomogeneous equipment distribution, large variety of equipment and huge facility size. The solution proposed in this report is based on automatic configuration of the graphical user interface using the description of the equipment and of the topology stored in the database. This approach was used to develop the applications for vacuum equipment control for the SPS and LEP accelerators at CERN. As a result an impressive quality of synoptic was reached with very efficient maintenance procedure.