About Platform Services
Under its Services container, every station has a PlatformServices container.
NOTE: In
Figure 11. Example device station’s PlatformServices
PlatformServices is different from all other components in a station in the following ways:
- It acts as the station interface to specifics about the host platform (whether Edge device or a PC).
- It is built dynamically at station runtime—you do not see PlatformServices in an offline station.
- Any changes you make to PlatformServices or its child services are not stored in the station database.
Instead, changes are stored in other files on the host platform, such as its
platform.bogfile.NOTE: Do not attempt to editplatform.bogdirectly; always use PlatformServices’ views.
Included services are a TcpIpService and LicenseService, providing station (Fox) access to dialogs used in platform views,
for instance the TCP/IP Configuration. These services support installations where all configuration must be possible using only a browser connection (and not