General

The General settings page controls application-wide behavior through six collapsible sections. Click any section header to expand it.

Languages

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

Drag the handles (⠿) to reorder languages in the selector. 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.

Startup Screen

Component — The HMI view or report page that opens automatically when users log in. Leave blank to show the default Welcome screen. Set this to a specific component (a report view, a live data dashboard) to send all users directly to their working view after login.

To assign a startup screen, drag a view or component from the main component tree into the Component field and save the settings.

This is the project-level default. Individual users can have their own startup screen set in Users.

User interventions

Records all manual changes made by users — tag writes, report triggers, configuration edits — with a timestamp and the username. Useful for shift handover documentation, audit trails, and troubleshooting.

Enable — Turn user intervention logging on or off.

Storage — How long the intervention log is retained (default: 1y 0m 0d 0h = 1 year). After this period, old entries are automatically deleted.

Security

Anonymous Autologin — When enabled, users can access the application without entering credentials. Suitable only for closed, controlled environments (dedicated operator panels with no network exposure). Disable for any installation accessible from a shared network.

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

Permanently deletes the entire project configuration — all connections, tags, report templates, users, and settings. Historical data and generated report files may also be affected depending on storage configuration.