General

The General settings page controls system-wide configuration for the project. Settings are grouped into six collapsible sections: Languages, Alarms, User interventions, AI Engineer, Security, and Delete Project.

Languages

Defines which interface languages are available to users. The project ships with English (en) as the default. Use the Add New Language button to add additional locales — once added, individual users can switch to their preferred language in their own account settings.

Drag the ⣿ handle to reorder languages in the list. Remove an unused language with the × button.

Translating texts

Next to Add New Language there are three more buttons:

Autofill translations with AI uses the AI provider that you set in AI Engineer, so that section has to be enabled and have a valid API key. There is no confirmation question — the translation starts as soon as you click the button, and a window shows the progress:

• Missing translations — the number of texts still missing in each language,
• Translations saved — texts that the AI translated and the project stored,
• Not translated — texts that the AI did not translate,
• Skipped (changed meanwhile) — texts that were changed while the translation was running.

When nothing is missing, the window reports All texts are already translated. Newly translated texts are saved in the project immediately, so create a backup in Settings → Backup before you translate a large project, and have the result checked by someone who speaks the language.

Alarms

Disable Alarm Confirmation — When checked, the confirmation step is skipped when an operator acknowledges an alarm. Operators can silence or acknowledge alarms with a single click instead of going through a confirmation dialog.

Storage — The data retention period for alarm history. Entered in the format Xy Xm Xd Xh (years, months, days, hours). The default is 1y 0m 0d 0h (one year). Records older than this limit are automatically purged.

User interventions

Enable — When checked, the system logs operator actions: tag value changes made through the interface are recorded with a timestamp and the identity of the user who made the change.

Storage — The retention period for the intervention log, in the same Xy Xm Xd Xh format. The default is 1y 0m 0d 0h (one year).

Security

Anonymous Autologin — When checked, the system loads without prompting for credentials. Anyone who can reach the server’s URL is automatically signed in. Intended only for physically isolated, fully trusted networks.

Require Two Factor — When checked, two-factor authentication (TOTP) is mandatory for all user accounts. This enforces a site-wide 2FA policy regardless of individual user settings.

Token Expire (hours) — How long an authentication token remains valid after it is issued. The default is 1 hour. Sessions expire after this period and the user must log in again.

User Authentication/Creation Token — A shared secret token that users must supply when self-registering an account. Click Set token to define the token or Clear token to remove it and disable self-registration.

AI Engineer

AI Engineer brings artificial intelligence into the project design. It consists of two independent parts — you can use either of them or both:

• the built-in AI assistant, a chat panel directly in the Designer,
• the MCP server, through which you connect an external AI tool of your choice to the project.

Built-in AI assistant

The assistant understands the whole project — assets, tags, connections, graphics, logic and data — and turns your instructions into real project components. Describe what you want to build, change or find, for example “Create a view with a gauge for tag 1.Motor.Speed”.

Setting it up

Working with the assistant

The assistant opens from the AI Engineer tab on the right edge of the Designer. Write the request into the field at the bottom (Enter sends it, Shift+Enter starts a new line). While the assistant works, the panel lists the individual steps, for example Reading: views or Creating a tag, and then shows the answer. If a step fails, the assistant usually corrects it and tries again.

At the top of the panel you can start a new conversation and open the history of previous ones. Stop interrupts a running answer, and a conversation can be exported to a PDF.

MCP server

The MCP server publishes the project to external AI tools that support the MCP protocol (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor…). Such a tool can then read and edit the project in the same way as the built-in assistant, but from its own environment — useful when you want to combine the project with other work (files, web, version control) or to make larger batch changes.

Setting it up

"datatalk-project-designer": {
  "command": "npx",
  "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "http://localhost/mcpdesigner"]
}

What the AI tool can do

What it cannot do

• It does not see the result. The tool works with the drawing data, not with a picture of the screen — check layouts and colors yourself.
• It does not read or write live values of tags, manage users and permissions or delete the project. It designs the project; it does not control the running process.
• Its changes are saved immediately as well — make a backup first.

Which one to use

Delete Project

The Delete Project button permanently removes the entire project, including all configuration, historical data, and user accounts. This action is irreversible and cannot be undone.