Horizontal pipe

Who it’s for

Anyone drawing a SCADA mimic where the connections matter as much as the equipment — a process line where an operator needs to see not only that a pump is running but that fluid is actually moving through the pipe it feeds, and whether that pipe is leaking.

What it does

The Horizontal pipe widget renders a pipe symbol with fluid and leak visualizations bound to live data. As a preconfigured SCADA symbol, it ships pointed at the platform’s own horizontal pipe SVG, and its behaviors bind flow and leak state to whatever keys the process reports.

• Pipes as first-class elements — a mimic where the connections animate reads as a process, whereas one with static lines between animated equipment reads as a diagram.
• Fluid visualization shows movement, so a running pump feeding a closed valve is visibly different from one feeding an open line.
• A leak visualization gives a fault its own representation on the diagram rather than only in an alarm list.
• A 1×1 default footprint, because pipes are laid out in runs of tiles rather than placed as single large widgets.
• Being a SCADA symbol, it takes the same behaviors as any other — values that drive appearance, actions that command, and widget actions that navigate.
• The Horizontal pipe draws one horizontal segment: corners, junctions and vertical runs need their own symbols placed alongside it.

How to set up

Data keys

The Horizontal pipe takes its data through the symbol’s behaviors rather than through a fixed key list.

Attribute	Scope	Operation	Description
Flow key	Any	Read	Bound to a Value behavior, this drives the fluid visualization — whether the pipe shows movement.
Leak key	Any	Read	Bound to a Value behavior, this drives the leak visualization.

Bind the flow behavior to something that actually indicates flow — a flow meter, a pump run state, a valve position — rather than to the presence of pressure. A pressurized static line looks identical to a flowing one on the instrumentation, and the pipe will animate as though fluid is moving when it is not.

Symbol

Setting	Default	Effect
SCADA symbol	The platform’s horizontal pipe SVG	The symbol rendered
Behavior	Empty	Bindings from the symbol’s flow and leak elements to data
Properties	Empty	The symbol’s own configurable settings, exposed per instance

How to customize

• To animate flow — add a Value behavior bound to the key that indicates movement.
• To show leaks — add a Value behavior bound to the leak detection key.
• To make the pipe navigate — add a Widget action behavior, so clicking a run opens the state covering that section.
• To match the mimic’s background — set the card Background and Card padding so adjacent pipe tiles join without a visible gap.
• To adjust the symbol’s own appearance — set its exposed Properties.

Tips

• Set the padding to zero and match the backgrounds on every pipe tile in a run. Any padding leaves gaps between segments, and a mimic where the pipes visibly do not connect undermines the diagram it is meant to be.
• Bind the leak visualization even when there is no leak sensor, using a derived condition instead — a pressure drop across a section, or a flow imbalance between two meters. A leak that only exists in an alarm list is not visible on the diagram where the operator is looking.