NEW PanelView Plus 6 with NEW

FactoryTalk View ME V6.0 and ViewPoint

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NEW PanelView Plus 6 with NEW FactoryTalk View
ME V6.0 and ViewPoint

Contents

Before you begin ......................................................................................................................................... 6

About this lab ................................................................................................................................................ 6

Tools & prerequisites .................................................................................................................................... 6

Document conventions .................................................................................................................................. 7

FactoryTalk® View Machine Edition ............................................................................................................. 8

PanelView™ Plus 6 ....................................................................................................................................... 8

FactoryTalk® ViewPoint ................................................................................................................................ 9

Chapter 1: Demo ............................................................................................ 10

Global Objects with Parameter Passing ..................................................................................................... 11

Recipe ActiveX with FTP Server Data Storage........................................................................................... 12

HMI Faceplates and PDF Viewer ................................................................................................................ 19

Retrieving Data logs using the FTP Server................................................................................................. 25

Symbol Factory Library ............................................................................................................................... 27

FactoryTalk ViewPoint ................................................................................................................................ 27

Chapter 2: FactoryTalk View Machine Edition - Beginner ............................. 29

Creating a FactoryTalk ME Application ....................................................................................................... 29

Adding Content to a Display........................................................................................................................ 34

Creating the Runtime Application File ......................................................................................................... 36

Downloading a runtime MER to a PanelView Plus terminal ....................................................................... 38

Running an Application on a PanelView Plus Terminal .............................................................................. 40

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Animating a Display with Control System Data ..................................................................................... 43
Configuring Communications ...................................................................................................................... 43

Adding ‘Live’ Objects to a Display ............................................................................................................... 52

Testing an Application on the Desktop ....................................................................................................... 68

Adding Alarms to an Application ............................................................................................................ 71

Configuring Alarms...................................................................................................................................... 71

Testing Alarms ............................................................................................................................................ 79

Chapter 3: FactoryTalk View Machine Edition - Advanced ........................... 82

Using Symbol Factory graphics .................................................................................................................. 83

Animation enhancements............................................................................................................................ 96

Running the application on a PanelView Plus terminal ............................................................................ 103

Chapter 4: FactoryTalk ViewPoint Machine Edition - Beginner .................. 109

About this Lab ........................................................................................................................................... 109

Setting up a FactoryTalk ViewPoint ME application ................................................................................. 109

Publishing a FactoryTalk View ME Application ......................................................................................... 112

Configuring FactoryTalk ViewPoint ME Security ...................................................................................... 114

Creating a runtime file with ViewPoint content.......................................................................................... 115

Running an application in a browser ......................................................................................................... 119

Using browser features with FactoryTalk ViewPoint ................................................................................. 124

Chapter 5: FactoryTalk ViewPoint Machine Edition - Advanced ................. 126

Trending .................................................................................................................................................... 127

Symbol Factory ......................................................................................................................................... 130

Enhanced Color Animation ....................................................................................................................... 132

Parameter Files ......................................................................................................................................... 135

Inactivity Timeout ...................................................................................................................................... 138

Chapter 6: FactoryTalk Machine Edition - Pick and Choose ...................... 144

Integrating other applications (10 minutes) ............................................................................................... 144

Recipe Management (15 minutes) ............................................................................................................ 152

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Working with security (15 minutes) ........................................................................................................... 170

Additional Alarming Features (20 minutes) ............................................................................................... 183

Language Switching (20 minutes) ............................................................................................................. 196

Improving productivity with parameter passing (30 minutes).................................................................... 213

Logging data (20 minutes) ........................................................................................................................ 232

Appendix A: Configuration/Setup Guide ........................................................ 247

Lab Setup and Configuration Information ............................................................................................ 248

Lab Information ......................................................................................................................................... 248

Hardware Configuration per Student ........................................................................................................ 248

Computer/Host Settings ............................................................................................................................ 249

Basic Setup Diagram ................................................................................................................................ 249

Application/Programming .......................................................................................................................... 250

Additional Equipment Required per Workstation ...................................................................................... 250

RSLinx - DDE/OPC Topic Configuration................................................................................................... 250

RSLinx - Driver Configuration ................................................................................................................... 251

RSLinx Enterprise - Shortcut Configuration .............................................................................................. 251

Application Versions .................................................................................................................................. 251

Required Pre-Lab Configuration ........................................................................................................... 252

Additional Information ............................................................................................................................... 254

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Before you begin

During this lab, you can choose to learn about the FactoryTalk® View Studio for Machine Edition (ME)
skills that are needed to create FactoryTalk View Machine Edition applications. By using an empty
project, you will learn how to add application content and configure communications to create a working
system that can both read and write information from a Logix controller. Basic alarming functions are also
covered.

You will review some of the more advanced capabilities and new functionality in FactoryTalk View ME
v6.0 and have an opportunity to explore the features of FactoryTalk View ME within FactoryTalk®
ViewPoint, our “thin client,” or browser-based, HMI solution. FactoryTalk ViewPoint ME is used to publish
web applications for FactoryTalk View ME projects that run on PanelView™ Plus terminals.

Lastly, a set of optional topics are available where you can pick and choose which FactoryTalk View ME
features you wish to work with and learn more about.

All chapters take advantage of the new PanelView Plus 6 terminals that are located at each workstation.

About this lab

Chapter 1 is a demonstration of features for both hardware and software. Using a paint shop application
developed in FactoryTalk View ME v6.0, you will see firsthand how features like global objects, the recipe
ActiveX control, a PDF file viewer, a FTP server and more can improve maintenance and runtime
productivity.

Chapter 2 is for new users and provides a basic overview of FactoryTalk View ME. This chapter can be
skipped for those who have a general working knowledge of the product.

Chapter 3 expands your FactoryTalk View ME knowledge and explores what new features are available
in the v6.0 release.

Chapters 4 and 5 will take you through the basic and advanced features of FactoryTalk ViewPoint ME
including what new features are available with the v1.2 release.

Chapter 6 allows you to pick and choose any section, in any order, to cater to the areas of FactoryTalk
View ME you would like to concentrate on.

This lab takes approximately 2 hours to complete.

Tools & prerequisites

Hardware
This hands-on lab does not require a Logix5000 controller however it could be used in place of SoftLogix
5800.

A PanelView Plus 6 terminal is required.

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Software
To complete this lab you must use the following hardware and software:

A Microsoft Windows XP SP3 computer

A Microsoft Windows® CE 6.0-based PanelView Plus 6 terminal.

Ethernet connection between computer and PanelView Plus 6 terminal

FactoryTalk View Machine Edition Studio v6.00 (CPR9 SR3)

FactoryTalk ViewPoint ME v1.20 (CPR9 SR3)

FactoryTalk Services Platform 2.30 (CPR9 SR3)

RSLinx Enterprise v5.30 (CPR9 SR3)

RSLinx Classic Lite v2.57 (CPR9 SR3)

RSLogix 5000 v18.00

SoftLogix 5800 v18.00

Document conventions
Throughout this workbook, we have used the following conventions to help guide you through the lab
materials.

This style or symbol: Indicates:

Words shown in bold italics Any item or button that you must select, click on, or a
(e.g., RSLogix 5000 or OK) menu name from which you must choose an option or
command. This will be an actual name of an item that you
see on your screen or in an example.
Words shown bolded, An entry that you must type in the specified field. This is
underlined and enclosed in information that you must supply based on your application
single quotes (e.g., a variable).
(e.g., 'Controller1')
Note: When you type the text in the field, remember that
you do not need to type the quotes; simply type the words
that are contained within them (e.g., Controller1).
Text that appears inside of a gray box is supplemental
This is sample text. information regarding the lab materials or learning goals;
the information is not required for you to complete the lab
exercises. The supplemental text may provide you with
helpful hints that can make it easier for you to use this
product..
This icon denotes new FactoryTalk View Machine Edition
v6.0 or new FactoryTalk ViewPoint ME v1.2 functionality.

Note: If the mouse button is not specified in the text, you should click on the left mouse button.

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FactoryTalk® View Machine Edition
FactoryTalk® View Machine Edition (ME) is a machine-level HMI product that supports both open and
dedicated operator interface solutions for monitoring and controlling individual machines or small
processes. It provides a consistent operator interface across multiple platforms, including Microsoft®
Windows® CE and 32-bit Microsoft® Windows® 7, XP, Vista solutions.

FactoryTalk View Machine Edition contains two components:

FactoryTalk View® Studio - This is the development environment containing the tools you need for
creating all aspects of a human-machine interface (HMI), including graphic displays, trends, alarm
reporting and real-time animation. It also provides tools for testing individual displays and entire
applications. When development is completed, a run-time (.MER) file created to run on a PanelView
Plus or personal computer.

FactoryTalk View® Machine Edition Station - This is the run-time environment. FactoryTalk View
Machine Edition Station executes the run-time (.MER file) application. FactoryTalk View Machine
Edition Station is embedded in PanelView Plus terminals. Run-time applications may also be
executed on a personal computer. Executing run-time applications on a personal computer requires
additional software licenses.

PanelView™ Plus 6

The PanelView Plus operator interface terminals are designed to optimize system development,
performance, and efficiency. The PanelView Plus 6 line is the latest addition to Rockwell Automation’s
versatile family of Allen-Bradley PanelView operator interface displays for machine level operator terminal
applications in industrial environments.

Enhancements to the hardware platform, embedded operating system and development environment
enable users to:

Take time and costs out of application development - PanelView Plus 6 dramatically reduces
development, setup time and troubleshooting time through features like tag re-use, complete Symbol
Factory graphic library and pre-built face plates.

Run their processes more effectively - Improved hardware performance delivers up 30% faster
screen response, enabling operators to navigate through screens more quickly, and can help avoid
maintenance calls resulting from mistakenly pressing inputs multiple times. In addition, new
capabilities wring more value from your process.

Reduce maintenance costs - New features like on-board pdf capability and remote user access
enable context-sensitive help and can avoid on-site visits to get processes back up and running faster
when things go wrong.

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FactoryTalk® ViewPoint
FactoryTalk® ViewPoint is an add-on to FactoryTalk View ME running on PanelView Plus that provides
for a fully scalable, fully animated, read-only view of existing applications from a Web browser.

To make information about your plant or process available on demand from a Web browser in your office,
home, or hotel, all you have to do is select the FactoryTalk View graphic displays you want to make ready
for the Web, and then publish the displays to the FactoryTalk ViewPoint Server which runs on a
PanelView Plus.

There is no installation of any Rockwell Software products on the browser computer: all you need to
connect to a published FactoryTalk ViewPoint Web application is the name (or IP address) of the
PanelView Plus hosting the FactoryTalk ViewPoint Server that stores the application.

Once you enter a simple address directly into your Web browser using the name or IP address, the
browser will connect to the published web application and open the initial display selected. Use navigation
buttons in the application to view other published displays, or use the web browser's navigation tools.

Displays in a FactoryTalk ViewPoint application are read-only. Graphic objects in the displays are fully
animated; however, you cannot use the objects to write to tags or to start and stop HMI components. For
example, a numeric input object with a tag connection will display the tag's current value, but will not
permit downloads.

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Chapter 1: Demo
Completing this section requires approximately 10 minutes.

This chapter simulates an automotive paint shop application to provide a quick look at features offered by
FactoryTalk View ME v6.0 and the new PanelView Plus 6 terminals.

The Demo will quickly showcase the following features on the PanelView Plus terminal:

Global Objects with Parameter Passing

Recipe ActiveX with FTP Server Data Storage

HMI Faceplates and PDF Viewer

Retrieving Data logs using the FTP Server

Symbol Factory Library

FactoryTalk ViewPoint

As you navigate through the application, you will get a sense of a machine operator‘s typical day with
focus on Runtime Productivity and Maintenance Productivity.

Load the Demo application on the PanelView Plus Terminal

Execute the following steps to run the PVP6_Demo.MER application required for the demonstration.

1. If FactoryTalk View ME Station is not already running on the PanelView Plus terminal, double-tap the

FTView ME Station icon on the desktop.

2. Press the Load Application [F1] button.

3. Select the PVP6_Demo.MER file from those available from the terminal’s Internal Storage.

4. Press Load [F2] to load the runtime file in to memory.

5. When prompted, press Yes [F7] to overwrite the terminal’s current communication configuration with
the configuration contained within the PVP6_Demo.MER file.

6. Once successfully loaded, press the Run Application [F2] to start executing the runtime file.

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 While the terminal is starting the application, an update dialog is displayed.

After the start-up processing completes you should see your applications startup display.

Global Objects with Parameter Passing

Global objects save development time by linking the appearance and behavior of a base graphic object to
multiple references of the object throughout an application. Using parameter passing with Global objects
lets you define a unique data source for each reference and still make changes to other aspects of the
global object.

1. Press on Cell #0 to open the paint cell display for the first cell.
Each of the available cells represents an instance where a Global Object uses specified parameters
to pass into a display.
Global Object Display

Cell #0
Parameters
Passed

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 Data for 4 different cells can be viewed however; only one Global Object and one graphic display
needed to be developed to provide this data.

3. Close the display by selecting the X button.

4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for each of Cell #1, Cell #2 and Cell #3 to note how responsive display
switching can be on the new terminals.

Recipe ActiveX with FTP Server Data Storage

The Recipe ActiveX allows a user to remotely control recipe functions from the controller, via tags and
read and write recipes to CSV files. These recipes can be managed over the network using the FTP
Server. We will explore these features during the next section.

Creating a new Recipe file

1. Press again on Cell #0 to open the display.

2. Select Recipe .

3. Use the arrow button to scroll down to the YELLOW recipe and Enter to
display its values.

The values for the Yellow recipe are displayed under the Recipe Value column and are maintained
in a recipe file. The values from Current Value column represent the values that are currently in the
controller.

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4. Select Enter New Recipe Name to create a new recipe file.

5. With the on-screen keyboard, type in ‘Black’ and press Enter.

6. Press the Flow Rate Value to enter a new setting.

7. Enter the value of ‘20’ and press Enter .

8. Press the Pressure Value to enter a new setting.

9. Enter the value of ‘50’ and press Enter .

10. Press the Paint Color Value to enter a new description.

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11. Enter the name of ‘Black’ and press Enter.

Your recipe values should now look like this:

12. Press on Save and notice that the new recipe has been added.

13. Now that a new recipe file has been created, push Download to Controller to send
the newly entered values to the controller. You will see that the Current Value data has been
updated and now matches the Recipe Value column.

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Use a new Recipe file

1. Press Overview to return to the Paint Cell #0 display.

The new recipe values are also displayed on this graphic.

2. Press Start to begin painting, as circled above. Animation is used to give the operator indication that
painting is in process.

3. Press Stop to end painting.

In order to continue, an authorized user must log in to restart the painting cycle.

4. Press on the lock button , then Login.

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 The Login display is opened. Press the User (F2) button and use the keyboard to enter
‘ENGINEER’. Leave the Password (F3) field blank. It should look like this:

5. Press Enter to complete the login process.

6. Close the Login display by selecting the X button.

7. The Reset button is now visible since our Engineer user has the proper permissions. Click on Reset

8. Press on the lock button , then Logout. Close the Login display by selecting the X
button.

9. Close the Paint Cell #0 display by selecting the X button.

10. Cell #0 is now indicating that it is painting the vehicles Black.

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Transfer recipe files over network to FTP Server
Turn to your desktop computer to start this next section. You will be connecting to the PanelView Plus
terminals using Internet Explorer to explore how recipe files can be transferred over a network.

1. Launch Internet Explorer from the desktop icon and enter the following address: ftp://192.168.1.20
where 192.168.1.20 is the IP address of your PanelView Plus and you are using the ftp:// syntax.

Your window is now updated to show you the files from the PanelView Plus terminal.

2. Click on My Documents then the Recipe folder.

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3. All the recipes files, including the new Black recipe, are available on the PanelView Plus FTP Server.

4. The FTP Server can be used to transfer files over the network to and from your terminal when viewed
within Windows Explorer. Click on Page in the upper right hand corner, then Open FTP Site in
Windows Explorer to see the new view.

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HMI Faceplates and PDF Viewer
Faceplates are pre-built visualization components, designed to save time and provide easier integration
with Integrated Architecture-based motion, drives, and process control such as Logix I/O, Control
Devices, Networks, and Process Applications.

In this next section we will manually trigger a fault and quickly obtain system diagnostics, use the PDF
viewer to launch an instruction guide on how to handle faults, control a PowerFlex drive and see its
diagnostics using the Logix I/O and Device faceplates and the new PDF Viewer utility.

Turn once again to your PanelView Plus terminal and return to the Main display if the application does
not already have this open.

Logix I/O and Device Faceplates plus the PDF Viewer

1. Press on Cell #0 to open the paint cell display and select Maintenance .

2. Press the DC Out module to launch its Logix I/O faceplate.

Now we will manually trigger a fault.

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3. Press the I/O Fault Trigger button and notice that the faceplate is updated with the
fault.

4. In order to get information on troubleshooting the fault, we will launch an Instruction Guide using the

PDF Viewer. Press the Instruction Guide (PDF Viewer) button .

5. Close the Troubleshooting document by selecting the X button.

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6. Press the I/O Fault Clear button to clear the fault condition and verify that the faceplate
has been updated.

7. Close the I/O Module Faceplate by selecting the X button.

8. Now press the PowerFlex object to launch its faceplate.

We will once again manually trigger a fault.

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9. Press the Drive Fault Trigger button and notice that the faceplate is updated with the
fault.

10. In order to get information on troubleshooting the PowerFlex fault, we will again launch the Instruction

Guide using the PDF Viewer. Press the Instruction Guide (PDF Viewer) button .

This time the file was configured to open to a predefined bookmark.

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11. Close the Troubleshooting document by selecting the X button.

12. Press the Drive Fault Clear button to clear the fault condition and verify that the
faceplate has been updated.

Control a Device using a Faceplate

1. Press the Drive Speed field to enter a new value.

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2. Enter a value of ‘8000’ and press Enter .

3. Press Start to control the PowerFlex drive.

The faceplate automatically updates as the drive ramps up to reflect the new drive speed.

4. Close the PowerFlex Faceplate by selecting the X button.

5. Return to the Main display.

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Retrieving Data logs using the FTP Server
Turn to your desktop computer to start this next section. You will be connecting to the PanelView Plus
terminals using Internet Explorer to explore how data log files can be managed over a network using the
FTP Server.

1. If Internet Explorer is not already open from a previous section, launch it using the desktop icon and
enter the following address: ftp://192.168.1.20 where 192.168.1.20 is the IP address of your
PanelView Plus and you are using the ftp:// syntax.

Your window is now updated to show you the files from the PanelView Plus terminal.

2. Click on My Documents then the Datalogs folder.

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 The date and time stamp indicate that there has been no data log activity for a period of time. This is
because there is currently no data log model running that is logging to this location. We will now go
start one.

3. Turn to your PanelView Plus terminal and press the Start Datalog button .

4. Press the Stop Datalog button .

5. Return to your Internet Explorer window on your desktop computer and click on View > Refresh.

A datalog file is now available on the PanelView Plus FTP Server. The FTP Server can be used to
transfer files over the network to and from your terminal when viewed within Windows Explorer.

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Symbol Factory Library
Symbol Factory is a new graphics library interface that can be launched from FactoryTalk View Studio
v6.0. It is built on Software Toolbox’s Symbol Factory, and contains over 5,000 graphical objects.

In this section you have the opportunity to browse through various categories to see what objects are
available.

1. Press the Symbol Factory Objects button .

2. Explore the different Symbol Factory objects available by pressing each of the available category
buttons.

3. Press Back to return to the above display when finished with each category.

FactoryTalk ViewPoint
FactoryTalk ViewPoint supports fully scalable and animated Web displays of PanelView Plus applications
from the office, home, or on the road via an Internet browser. This section will quickly show how to
remotely connect to an application that is running on your PanelView Plus with published displays
available for a FactoryTalk ViewPoint client.

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1. Launch Internet Explorer from the desktop icon and enter the following address:
http://192.168.1.20/FTVP where 192.168.1.20 is the IP address of your PanelView Plus.

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Chapter 2: FactoryTalk View Machine Edition -
Beginner
Completing this section requires approximately 20 minutes.

In this section you will learn how to create a ‘Hello World’ application by:

Launching FactoryTalk View Studio for Machine Edition

Creating a new project, configure project settings, and add content to the project

Running the project on a PanelView Plus terminal

When you have successfully completed this section, you will be able to interact with a running application
on a PanelView Plus terminal.

Creating a FactoryTalk ME Application

1. Using the Start menu select All Programs >Rockwell Software >FactoryTalk View > FactoryTalk
View Studio item.

After FactoryTalk View Studio for Machine Edition opens you will see the following:

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 Exploring FactoryTalk View Studio for Machine Edition Interface
The FactoryTalk View Studio for Machine Edition Application Windows is divided in to several key elements

Application Menu Graphics Toolbar

Used to interact with Provides easy
the application; access to tools
Open/ Close/ Create that are used to
new applications; manipulate objects
Import/ Export on a display.
information. Ex. Rotate, Group,
The menu changes Ungroup, etc.
context based on
what project object is
open in the Work Objects Toolbar
Pane Provides easy
access to objects
that are used on
Explorer Pane
displays to create
Contains all objects
the user
related to an
interaction. Ex.
application project.
Numeric Input,
Application objects
String Display,
are opened in the
Ramp button, etc.
Work Pane.
The Explorer’s
content is described
in more detail on the
next page.

Work Pane
Diagnostic List
Open project object contents
Contains status and error
are display in this area.
messages related to
system, application and In this example, an untitled
project. display has added to the
application.

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Now let us take a close look at the objects in the Explorer Pane.

contains computer-scoped components,

FactoryTalk View Data Server and FactoryTalk Services
Platform objects.

contains application-scoped components like the

FactoryTalk View HMI Server and RSLinx Enterprise
configurations. . The FactoryTalk View Data Server object is
used to add additional data servers (Ex. OPC) to an
application project. This is an advanced operation and not
covered in the manual.

contains all information scoped to the HMI server

such as, Project Settings, HMI Tags, Graphic files, Alarms,
Information Messages, Macros, Data Logs, and Recipes.

contains project-scope settings such as

Resolution, Security settings, Startup graphic files, Diagnostic
configuration

contains all tags resident in the memory of the

HMI Server. Applications for Logix Controllers use direct tag
referencing eliminating the need to create HMI tags to
communicate with the PLC

contains all graphic images used in the

application as displays, or contained within displays and
parameter files. Parameter files are one way to enable
graphic reuse between applications.

Symbol Factory provides access to thousands of stock

images organized in an easy to use library.

contains the application’s alarm configuration

including triggers and messages.

contains the application’s information

message configuration

contains the application’s macros

contains any Data Log Model configured for the

application

contains the Recipe management system

configuration and any configured recipes

contains communication shortcuts used

by the application

contains FactoryTalk Services Platform related

configuration. This is primarily used to manage users and
groups in a FactoryTalk Machine Edition application.

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2. Click the New tab to activate the tab.

3. In the Application name field, enter ‘L15’.

The Import button is used to import:

PanelBuilder application files for PanelView
Standard or PanelView Enhanced.

PanelView Standard or Enhanced runtime files

Other FactoryTalk Studio for Machine Edition
applications

This is analogous to using Application Manager
to copy the project.

4. Next, click the Create button .

After creating the application, FactoryTalk View Studio for Machine Edition opens the application:

If you are unfamiliar with FactoryTalk View Studio for Machine Edition, please review the information
in Exploring FactoryTalk View Studio for Machine Edition on page 30.

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5. Maximize FactoryTalk View Studio by clicking the maximize button in the upper right-hand corner.

6. Double-click the Project Settings item located in the System container to open its dialog.
By default, new projects in FactoryTalk View Studio for Machine Edition are configured for a
PanelView Plus 700/1000 terminal with a 640x480 resolution. In this lab, you are using PanelView
Plus 1000 terminals so these settings do not need to be changed.

7. Click the Cancel button to proceed. There is no need to change any setting on this dialog.

Upon creation of a new project, FactoryTalk View ME 6.0 now automatically creates a default display
called Main which is also defined as the initial startup display. Let’s open this now

8. To open existing displays, open

the Displays container by
clicking the expander from
the Explorer Pane window.

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9. Double-click on the Main
display.
The display will open in the
Work Pane of FactoryTalk View
Studio for Machine Edition.
You will notice that a Shutdown
button has automatically been
created for you. You are now
ready to add objects to the
display.

Adding Content to a Display

All objects in FactoryTalk View Studio have properties. The properties are organized by function on to
tabs on a property dialog. At a minimum, all objects provide a General and Common tab.

Tab Name Purpose

General Configure the operation and appearance of the object.

Common Configure the object’s size (Height and Width) and display position.
Display top-left corner is {0,0} coordinate.

Each object provides a set of tabs that vary with the object type. For instance, most objects that display
static text (e.g. Text, Shutdown button) have a Label tab.

Tab Name Purpose

Label Configure an object’s caption font, font size, font color.

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1. Select the Text tool
, and add a text box
to the display.

When you release the

mouse button, the
Text Properties dialog
will immediately open.

2. Click the Text field and

enter ‘Hello World!
This is my new
application.’

3. Click the OK button

.

This display should now look similar to this

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8. Close the display using the File > Close menu item.

9. When prompted, click Yes to save the changes.

10. Now that you have created objects on the Main display, verify that it is configured as the application’s
Startup graphic.

To open the Startup dialog, double-click on the Startup item in the System container.

11. Click OK to close the dialog.

Creating the Runtime Application File

1. Next, you must build the runtime application; select the Application > Create Runtime Application
menu item.

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2. Using the Create Runtime Application dialog save the runtime project using the suggested name
‘L15.mer’ by clicking the Save button .
The Conversion to development
application options allows later
recovery of the design files from the
runtime project using the Application
Manager, if allowed.
Always allow conversion
[Default]
The design information is always
included with the runtime, so that it
may be restored from the MER.
The resulting MER requires more
terminal memory to store the file.
Never allow conversion
Design information cannot be
recovered from an MER created
with this option selected.
The MER created requires the least
While FactoryTalk View Studio for Machine Edition is amount of terminal memory.
creating the runtime MER file a progress dialog will
Conversion protected by
appear
password
When using Application Manager to
extract the design information from
the runtime file, the user will be
prompted for the configured
password.
The resulting MER requires more
terminal memory to store the file.

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Downloading a runtime MER to a PanelView Plus terminal

1. To download the runtime MER to the PanelView Plus 1000 terminal at your workstation, first, select
the Tools > Transfer Utility menu item.

The Transfer Utility will open.

2. Click the Source File Browse button to select the runtime MER file to download.
This opens the Select File to Download dialog.

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3. Click on the L15.mer file to select the project. The File Name box should update to reflect the
selection.

4. Click the Open button to complete the project selection.

5. Double-click the EtherNet, Ethernet driver to expand the item.

6. Select the 192.168.1.20, PanelView Plus CE_6 1000, PanelView Plus CE_6 1000 item by clicking
on it once.

7. To initiate the download process, click the Download button

During the download, a progress dialog will update. An example is shown below:

When the download process completes a confirmation dialog is shown.

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8. Click the OK button to acknowledge the dialog.

9. Click the Exit button to close the Transfer Utility.

Running an Application on a PanelView Plus Terminal

In this lab section, you will work with a PanelView Plus terminal. Execute the following steps to run the
FactoryTalk Machine Edition application you just completed.

1. If FactoryTalk View ME Station is not already running on the terminal, double-tap the FTView ME

Station icon on the desktop.

2. Press the Load Application [F1] button.

3. Select the L15.MER file from those available from the terminal’s Internal Storage.

4. Press Load [F2] to load the runtime file in to memory.

5. When prompted, press Yes [F7] to overwrite the terminal’s current communication configuration with
the configuration contained within the L15.MER file.

6. Once successfully loaded, press the Run Application [F2] to start executing the runtime file.

While the terminal is starting the application, an update dialog is displayed.

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 After the start-up processing completes you should see your applications startup display.

7. Click the Shutdown button to terminate the application.

Congratulations!!

You have successfully created a FactoryTalk View Studio for Machine Edition application; added
application content; created a runtime file; downloaded the runtime file to a terminal; and, finally, ran the
application on a PanelView Plus terminal.

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Animating a Display with Control System Data

Completing this section requires approximately 30 minutes.

In this section you will learn how to:

Configure RSLinx Enterprise Communications for an application

Add ‘Live’ objects to a display

Test an application on the Desktop

This application simulates a two-button pump control station.

Configuring Communications

1. Double-click the RSLinx Enterprise item to expand.

2. Right-click on the Communication Setup item and select Open to launch the RSLinx Enterprise
Configuration Wizard.

3. Select the Create a new configuration option; this is the default.

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 The purpose of the different options is described here:
Create a new configuration

Generates an empty communication configuration scheme for the application.

Copy an existing configuration from a previously created project

Reuse a communication configuration from a different application file.

Copy the configuration that is currently running on this workstation

Infrequently used; copies the communication configuration from an application currently being hosted using
FactoryTalk Machine Edition Station on the same workstation.

4. Click the Finish button . The Communication Setup dialog opens.

You may need to resize the dialog.

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 Exploring the Communication Setup Dialog
The Communication Setup dialog has three main areas.

Network Path
Displays the
network topology
Device Shortcuts path to the device
A list of shortcuts associated with the
defined on the selected shortcut.
workstation in RSLinx Also used to create
Enterprise. a new shortcut to
the select network
device.

Offline Tag File

Displays the hard drive path to the ACD file
associated with the selected shortcut. The offline
ACD file is used for tag browsing when disconnected
from a network.

You will notice that the Network Path dialog area has two tabs, Design (Local), and Runtime (Target). The
definitions below should help you to understand how to use these tabs, and why there provide powerful flexibility
when designing an application. These tabs allow you to develop and debug an application while at your desk,
working on the shop floor, or some other location that is not co-located with the control system.

The tabs can be used as described below

Design (Local) Configure the network and device path(s) for the development
environment in which the application will be designed and
debugged. This network topology and device path(s) may be
different than the production environment where the application
will ultimately run.

If the development and production environments are identical,

you can copy the Design (Local) configuration to the Runtime
(Target) configuration using the Copy from Design to Runtime
button .

Runtime (Target) Configure the network and device path(s) for the production
environment in which the application will run (e.g. customer
facility). The network topology and path(s) may be completely
different than those defined using the Design (Local) tab.

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5. To create a new shortcut, click the Add button in the Device Shortcuts area. When you click the
Add button, a new shortcut is created. The shortcut’s name field is open and ready to be edited.

6. Name the shortcut L15 by typing ‘L15’ and then pressing the [Enter] key on the keyboard.
If you have successfully completed these steps, the Communication Setup dialog will look like this:

7. Expand the EtherNet, Ethernet driver by clicking the expander once.

8. Click the expander once, to open the 192.168.1.1, SoftLogix 5800 EtherNet/IP, EtherNet/IP
item.

9. Click the expander to open the 1789-A17/A, 1789-A17/A Virtual Chassis item.

10. Select 3, 1789-L60/A, 1789-L60/A SoftLogix 5860 Controller by clicking on it once. The dialog
should now look like this after completing the last few steps.

11. Click the Apply button to associate the selected device (e.g. SoftLogix 5800 Controller) with the
selected communication shortcut (e.g. L15).

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12. Click the Yes button to confirm the association.

13. Click the Verify button to confirm the association.

Note, that for shortcut L15 only the Design path is assigned.

14. Close the Shortcut Verifier dialog by clicking the Close button .

In this lab, the design and production environments are identical. To proceed you have two options:

1. Use the Copy from Design to Runtime button to copy the design
environment topology and device paths to the production environment (e.g. Runtime (Target)
tab).
It is estimated this option will require less than 5 minutes to complete.

The Copy button should be used with care. All devices shown in the Design tab will be copied to the
Runtime tab.
The only devices required in the Runtime configuration are the controller(s) the PanelView Plus is
communicating with.

2. Manually configure the production environment so that you understand how this functionality
works.
It is estimated manual configuration will require 5 to 10 minutes to complete.

For Option B proceed to page 49.

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Option A

1. Click on the Runtime (Target) tab to select it and note there are two available
drivers and no devices.

2. Switch back to the Design (Local) tab to click the Copy from Design to Runtime button
. This copies the communication configuration from the Design (Local) tab
to the Runtime (Target) tab.

2. When prompted click Yes button to confirm the operation.

3. Click on the Runtime (Target) tab to view the devices that have now been copied over.
Using the expanders open the topology items (e.g. drivers and devices) to confirm that the Design
(Local) configuration have been replicated.

4. Proceed to Step 19 page 52 to continue and skip Option B.

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Option B

1. Click on the Runtime (Target) tab to select it.

2. Right-click on EtherNet, Ethernet item to open the context menu.

3. Click Add Device which opens the Add Device Selection dialog

4. Expand the EtherNet/IP Devices item by clicking the expander

5. Scroll down and expand SoftLogix 5800 EtherNet/IP item by clicking the expander . Select the
only SoftLogix 5800 EtherNet/IP option in this list.

6. Click the OK button to accept the selection. This action opens the Device Properties
dialog.

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7. Enter ‘192.168.001.001’ in the Address field to set the device’s TCP/IP address.

8. Change the selected Slot to ‘4’.

9. Click the OK button to add the device to the Runtime (Target) configuration.

10. Use the expander to open the 192.168.1.1, SoftLogix5800 EtherNet/IP, SoftLogix 5800
EtherNet/IP device.

11. Right-click the 1789-A17, 1789-A17 Virtual Chassis item and select Add Device.

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12. Expand the 1789-L60/A, 1789-L60/A SoftLogix 5860 Controller item by double-clicking.

13. Select the 1780-L60/A, 1789-L60/A SoftLogix 5860 Controller, Major Revision 18 item.

14. Click the OK button to accept the selection.

15. Change the controller’s Slot property to ‘3’.

16. Click the OK button to add the device to the Runtime (Target) configuration.

17. Click the Apply button in the Device Shortcuts pane.

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18. Click the Yes button to apply the changes to the L15 shortcut.

19. Click the Verify button to confirm the Design and Runtime associations.

Confirm both the Design and Runtime devices are assigned for shortcut L15.

20. Close the Shortcut Verifier dialog by clicking the Close button .

21. Click the OK button to complete the communication setup and close the Communication
Setup dialog.

Be sure to use the OK button! If you close the dialog with the Close button , the communication setup
will not be committed to the application. You will need to repeat the communication setup process.

Adding ‘Live’ Objects to a Display

Now that a communication path to a controller is configured, you are ready to add objects (buttons,
numeric displays, etc.) to the display that use information from the controller. The lab uses a variety of
different buttons, data displays, and images to illustrate FactoryTalk Machine Edition functionality and
application capabilities.

1. Double-click the Main display in the Explorer to open the display.

2. Right-click over the existing Text object with the caption ‘Hello World! This is my new application.’
and select Delete.

3. Select the Maintained Pushbutton tool from the Objects toolbar.

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4. When you move the cursor over the Main display frame, the mouse cursor will change to

5. Move the mouse cursor near the lower left-hand corner of the Main display frame; click and hold the
left mouse button, and then drag down and to the right to create a Maintained Pushbutton object.

6. Position the cursor over the Maintained

Pushbutton and double-click the mouse to
open the Maintained Pushbutton
Properties dialog.

7. Click the Common tab to activate.

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8. Change the Height, Width, Top, and Left fields to size and position the Maintained Pushbutton
exactly.
Height 60
Width 120
Top 400
Left 20

9. Click the Apply button to commit these changes. The button should move and resize on
the display to match these settings.
If you’ve accidently clicked OK button, simply reopen the button’s property dialog by double-clicking
the button.

10. Click the States tab to activate.

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 States are explicit events that occur when the value
of the configured Connection: Value tag equals the
value defined in the Value for the selected state. If
the Connection: Value tag value does not equal
any defined state the Error state occurs.

Pushbuttons have three states: State0, State1, and

Error. By default, State0 is configured to occur
when Connection: Value tag value is zero; State 1
when the tag value is one. You can set a State’s
Value to any valid integer that the tag will assume.
Most common are zero and one. You can create a
Normally Closed pushbutton by setting State0
Value to one, and State1 Value to zero.

There are other more complex state-based objects

that you configure the operation for multiple states.
These are called multistate objects; there are two:
Multistate Pushbutton and Multistate Indicator.

The Multistate Indicator is useful for depicting or

emulating lamps, stack-lights, etc. The Multistate
Pushbutton is useful for emulating multi-position
selector switches, etc.

11. Select State0 in the Select state: field.

12. Enter ‘Start Process’ in the Caption field.

13. Click the Back color color swatch in the General group. This will open a color picker.

14. Select a shade of Green.

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 The dialog will update to reflect
your selection.

15. Click the Apply button to commit these changes. The button will update to match the entry
you made, a green button with the caption “Start Process”.

16. Select State1 in the Select State: field.

17. Click the Back color color swatch in the General

group. Select a shade of Red.

18. Enter ‘Stop Process’ in the Caption field.

19. Click the Apply button to commit these changes.

20. Click the Connections tab to activate.

21. In the Value row, click on the Browse button in the Tag column

This action opens the Tag Browser

Understanding the Tag Browser

The Tag Browser is used to view and select tags from the application’s configured data sources.

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 Understanding the Tag Browser
When you configured RSLinx Enterprise earlier in this lab, you were configuring a data source.
Other data sources might be a PLC5 or SLC500 processor, or a device accessed using available
KEPware drivers.

Tag Area
Used to select a
specific tag from the
Folder List selected folder
Used to browse a
shortcut’s Controller
and Program tags
and UDTs Tag Filter
Shows only those tags that start with
the user-entered filter. Press [Enter] to
apply a filter to the Tag Area.

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Understanding the Tag Browser

The following further defines and highlights the uses and functionality provided in the Tag Browser.
Folder List

HMI Server (e.g. )

Contains tags defined in the HMI Server;
referred to as memory tags. The FactoryTalk
Machine Edition runtime manages and
updates these tags.

System
Contains default HMI tags for system
information, such as, time of day, date, etc.

<Communication Shortcut> (e.g. L15)

Contains tags that exist in the memory of the
device the shortcut represents.

Diagnostic Items
Predefined diagnostic and troubleshooting
tags useful for monitoring communication and
controller status.

Online
Tags contained in a Logix Controller’s
memory; the tags are directly referenced by
the FactoryTalk Machine Edition runtime.
Tag Area
Name
Column containing the tag’s name. Use the
Tag filter function to quickly find tags that
start with the user-entered filter.

Access Rights
New! In V18 firmware, Logix Controllers
implements Access Rights for tags. This
column displays a tag’s Access Rights
property. Tags are either ReadOnly or
ReadWrite.

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22. Right-click on the L15 item in the Folders list; select the Refresh All Folders item.

23. Double-click the L15 folder to expand.

24. Double-click the Online item to expand.

25. Select the Program:MainProgram item.

26. In the Tag Area, locate and select the tag HMI_Start_Process.

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 Note that the Selected Tag text box reflects your selection.

27. Click the OK button to

complete the connection
configuration.

28. Click the OK button to

complete the button’s properties
configuration. You can now see a
red colored button in the lower left-
hand corner of the Main display.

29. Select the Numeric Display tool from the Objects toolbar.

30. Move the mouse near the right-hand margin of the Main display frame; click and hold the left mouse
button, then drag down and to the right to create a Numeric Display box.

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31. Position the cursor over the Numeric
Display box and double-click the mouse to
open the Numeric Display Properties
dialog.

32. In the Value Settings group decrease the Number of Digits from 5 to ‘3’.

33. Click the Common tab to activate.

34. Change the Height, Width, Top, and Left fields to size and position the Numeric Display exactly.
Height 40
Width 120
Top 180
Left 75

35. Click the Connections tab to activate.

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36. In the Value row, click the Browse button in the Tag column to open the Tag Browser.

37. In the Folder List, expand the path L15 > Online > Program:MainProgram > Tank1 and select the
Pump item.

38. Select Flow_HMI_Entry tag.

39. Click the OK button to

complete the connection
configuration

40. Click the OK button to

complete the Numeric
Display’s properties
configuration.

This display now looks like this:

To save time, you will now import additional display content. Importing content from XML files is one
way to reuse displays and objects between different FactoryTalk View Machine Edition applications.
Some of the content will not be fully configured; once successfully imported you will complete the
configuration of several objects.

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41. Save the Main display using the File > Save menu item.

42. Close the Main display using the File > Close menu item

43. Right-click the Displays item in the

Project Explorer and select Import
and Export…

44. This opens the Graphic Import

Export Wizard dialog.
Select Import graphic information
into displays item, and click the
Next button .

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45. There is no need to backup the
display that will be modified during
the import. Select No item, and click
the Next button .

46. For the lab, you will be importing a

single display. Select Single display
import file item, and click the Next
button .

47. You must select the file to be

imported. Click the Browse button
.

This opens a standard Microsoft

Windows File Open dialog.

48. Navigate to C:/Lab Files/ViewME - ViewPoint/ViewME/Beginner folder

49. Select the file Pump Content for Main Display.xml

50. Click the Open button .

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51. Using the dropdown Select
the display to import to list,
select the display named
Main. This is the display, to
which the content must be
added.

52. The When importing option should remain unchanged.

The default setting Create new objects on the display adds unique objects to the display during the
import operation; it does not overwrite or update existing objects.

53. Click the Finish button to begin the process.

While the import is occurring a status dialog appears

When the process completes a results file is displayed.

54. Close the results file.

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 55. Open the Main display from the Project Explorer.

Momentary Pushbutton Gauge

Activates only while Displays numeric data
depressed

Numeric Input Enable button

Opens a keypad for entering numbers.

The import process has added two momentary pushbuttons, a gauge, a numeric input enable button
and a pump. You will need to complete the properties for some of these objects.

The Numeric Input Enable Pushbutton needs both its Minimum and Maximum connections
configured. During this lab, you have used an object’s properties dialog to configure an object. In
FactoryTalk View Studio for Machine Edition, there are many ways to change an object’s properties. No
one way is best; and which method you choose to use is a personal preference. To complete
configuration of the Numeric Input Enable Pushbutton, you will use the Property Panel.

56. Select the Numeric Input Enable Pushbutton

with the caption Flow Rate visible.

57. Select Property Panel menu item from the View

menu.

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 The Property Panel presents an object’s properties as an
alphabetically sorted list. Some people find this arrangement
for efficient to work with than the ‘regular’ tabbed Property
dialog associated with each object.

With the Property Panel, it is possible to simultaneously

change a property common to a group of selected objects
(e.g. BackColor, Left, Width) by selecting the Shared
Properties radio button.

Once the Property Panel opens confirm the

Properties tab is active.

58. Using the Property Panel locate the property

UseVariableMinMax. You will have to use the
vertical scrollbar to find the property.

59. Using the UseVariableMinMax dropdown

control select True.

60. Click the Connections tab to activate.

61. Click the Browse button in the Tag column

of the Minimum row.

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62. Using the Tag Browser select the tag
::[L15]Program:MainProgram.Tank1.Pump.
Flow_Min

63. Click the OK button to complete the

tag selection process.

64. Click the Browse button in the Tag column

of the Maximum row.

65. Using the Tag Browser double-click the tag

::[L15]Program:MainProgram.Tank1.Pump.
Flow_Max. This selects the tag and closes the
Tag Browser in one step.

66. Click the Close button (upper right-hand corner) to close the Property Panel.

67. Save the Main display using the File > Save menu item.

Testing an Application on the Desktop

There are two methods available to test an entire application. One is to download the application to a
PanelView Plus terminal. The other is to use the terminal emulation capability that is included with
FactoryTalk Studio for Machine Edition. You will be testing the application on the desktop using the
terminal emulation functionality.

1. From the Application menu, select the Test

Application item.

The system will build the runtime MER just

as if the application were going to be
downloaded to a PanelView Plus terminal.

When the runtime MER file is built, the system loads the runtime MER in to an emulation mode. The
application will appear in the upper left-hand corner of the computer display.

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2. To evaluate the application click on the Start Process button, . The button color and
caption change.
The color is now red and the caption reads Stop Process. If the button is already in this state,
proceed to the next step.

3. Click the Numeric Input Enable Pushbutton Flow Rate.

This will open a numeric keypad.

4. Set the Flow Rate to ‘230’ and click the Enter button
Note, that the minimum (10) and maximum (250) are
displayed using the tags you had configured earlier.

The Numeric Display updates to reflect your entry.

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5. Click the green Start button to start the pump. Several things happen at once.

The pump image will turn green with a shaded fill.

The gauge needle will begin to move.

Take a few moments, but not too many, and exercise the application you created.

Change the flow rate (ex. 75), what happens to the gauge?

Press the Stop button to turn off the pump. What happens to the pump image? The gauge?

6. When you are done, click the Stop Process button to end the simulated process.

7. Click on the Shutdown button to end the emulation.

Congratulations!!

You have successfully created your second FactoryTalk View Studio for Machine Edition application;
added ‘live’ content; configured communications with a controller, created a runtime file; and, exercised
the application on your desktop.

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Adding Alarms to an Application

Completing this section requires approximately 20 minutes;

Annunciating irregular system or process events to operators is a critical component of many HMI
applications. FactoryTalk View Machine Edition provides an intrinsic alarming function that can be used
for this purpose.

In this section you will:

Learn about Alarms.

Configure several alarms for the pump application

Learn how to import alarms from reusable XML format

When you have completed this section the application will appear as it did at the end of the last section,
however, as the application executes simulated alarms will occur.

Configuring Alarms
In the simulated application, you are building an application where each Tank contains a User-Defined
Data Type; referred to as a UDT. The UDT is custom built by the control system designer using basic
data types supported by a Logix controller (Boolean [Bool], Double Integer [DINT], etc.) and other UDTs.
The UDT for a Tank contains a Pump. The Pump UDT contains a Fault UDT. You will be using tags from
the TankX.Pump.Fault UDT structure.

1. Double-click the Alarm Setup item in the Alarms container within the Project Explorer.

This action opens the Alarm Setup dialog

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Understanding the Alarm Setup dialog
The native Alarm subsystem is a powerful feature available to every FactoryTalk View Machine Edition
application. The subsystem allows the designer to react to and annunciate irregular application events
(e.g. motor overload, hi level conditions, etc.). The alarm system can be configured to be entirely self-
contained to the application runtime, or it can be configured to coordinate and communicate with the
control system.

Used to define and manage the

events that will ‘trigger’ an alarm
to occur.

The designed can also configure

the system for alarm coordination
with the control system.

For each defined alarm event,

the designer can configure the
message that corresponds with
the alarm.

Allows the configuration of the

system display on which to show
alarms, the alarm history, and
additional remote connections for
control system coordination.

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2. Click the Add button to begin the process of creating an alarm trigger. This will
open the Trigger dialog.

3. Click on the Browse button in the Tag column to open the Tag Browser.

4. Expand the L15 > Online > Program:MainProgram > Tank1 > Pump folder structure and select the
Fault container.

5. Double-click on the FlowRateWarning tag. This selects the tag and closes the Tag Browser.
Ensure that you selected the correct tag by verifying the tag in the Tag or expression column

6. Click the OK button to complete trigger selection.

7. Confirm the Trigger type is set to Value. This is the default setting.

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8. Enter ‘Tank1 FlowRate’ in the Trigger label field to identify the trigger.

9. Check the Use ack all value checkbox; enter ’1’ as the Use ack all value. The FactoryTalk View
Machine Edition application sends this value to the control system, via a configured Ack tag, when
the operator depresses the Ack All button.

10. Click on the Browse button in the Tag column of the Ack row to open the Tag Browser.

11. Click on the Pump container in the path L15 > Online > Program:MainProgram > Tank1 to select.

12. Select the Alarm_Ack tag by clicking on it once.

13. Click the OK button to complete Ack tag selection.

14. Click the Add button to begin the process of adding the next trigger.

15. Click on the Browse button in the Tag column to open the Tag Browser.

16. Expand the L15 > Online > Program:MainProgram > Tank1 > Pump folder structure and select the
Fault container.

17. Click on the HiFlowWarning tag.

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18. Click the OK button to complete trigger selection.

19. Confirm the Trigger type is set to Value. This is the default setting.

20. Enter ‘Tank1 HiFlow’ in the Trigger label field to identify the trigger.

21. Check the Use ack all value checkbox; enter ‘1’ as the Use ack all value

22. Click on the Browse button in the Tag column of the Ack row to open the Tag Browser.

23. Click on the Pump container in the path L15 > Online > Program:MainProgram > Tank1 to select.

24. Double-click the Alarm_Ack tag to select.

Next, you must configure the message to be displayed for each alarm trigger you defined.

25. Click on the Messages tab to activate.

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26. First, you need to resize the Trigger column so that you can read the complete trigger name. Move
the mouse cursor so it is between the Trigger and Trigger value columns. The cursor will change to
a when you have the mouse properly positioned.

27. Click and hold, then drag the mouse to the right. This will enlarge the Trigger column. Release the
mouse button when you are done.

28. Click in the Trigger column to start the process. You will notice that a dropdown list control is
enabled within the column. Using this dropdown list, you can select from among the defined
Triggers for which you will define a message.

29. Click on the Trigger dropdown control of Row 1 to show a list of the defined triggers.

30. Select the trigger ::[L15]Program:MainProgram.Tank1.Pump.Fault.FlowRateWarning.

31. Click in the Trigger Value column of Row 1 and enter ‘1’. This configures the alarm system to
generate an alarm when the tag Tank1.Pump.Fault.FlowRateWarning is set to one.

32. Click in the Message field of Row 1 and enter ‘Tank 1 Flow Obstructed’.

33. Click on the Trigger dropdown control of Row 2 to show a list of the defined triggers.

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34. Select the trigger ::[L15]Program:MainProgram.Tank1.Pump.Fault.HiFlowWarning.

35. Click in the Trigger Value column of Row 2 and enter ‘1’. This configures the alarm system to
generate an alarm when the tag Tank1.Pump.Fault.HiSpeedWarning is set to one.

36. Click in the Message field of Row 2 and enter ‘Tank 1 High Flow’.
There is no need for you to change the default settings of any other column in the Alarm Setup
dialog Messages tab.

37. Click the OK button to complete the Alarm Setup.

To save time in the hands-on lab environment you will now import additional triggers and messages for
Tank1, Tank2 and Tank3. Just as FactoryTalk Studio for Machine Edition supports reusability for
displays, it also provides reusability of Alarm setups via XML files.

38. Right-click on the Alarm Setup item in the

Project Explorer and select the Import and
Export… item.

39. Select the Import alarm configuration into

application radio button.

40. Click the Next button to proceed.

41. Select No when asked about backing up the

existing configuration and click the Next button
to proceed.

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42. Click the Browse button . This opens the
Choose alarm configuration file to import
dialog.

43. Navigate to C:\Lab Files\ViewME -

ViewPoint\ViewME\Beginner

44. Select the file Alarm Content for Tank2 and

Tank3.xml.

45. Click the Open button .

46. Click the Finish button to start the

import.

The FactoryTalk Studio for Machine Edition alarm importation process is destructive. During
the import, any existing alarm setup is replaced with the setup being imported. Normally you
would export the current alarm setup and manually merge with the alarm setup that will be
imported.

47. Close the AlarmImportLog.txt file by clicking the button.

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48. Double-click the Alarm Setup item in the Alarms container within the Project Explorer.
There should be twelve defined triggers;

and, twelve defined messages.

49. Click the OK button , or the Cancel button , to close the Alarm Setup dialog.

Testing Alarms
Next, you need to exercise the Alarm configuration in a running application. To accomplish this you will
once again use FactoryTalk Studio for Machine Edition’s Test Application function.

1. Click the Test Application button in the

toolbar or use the Application > Test
Application menu.

The system will build the runtime MER just

as if the application were going to be
downloaded to a PanelView Plus terminal.

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When the runtime MER file is built, the system loads the runtime MER in to an emulation mode. The
application will appear in the upper left-hand corner of the computer display.

To observe how alarms work:

2. To evaluate the application click on the Start Process button . The button color and
caption change.
The color is now red and the caption reads Stop Process. If the button is already in this state,
proceed to the next step.

3. Click the Flow Rate button

4. Enter a value of ‘15’ using the keypad.

5. Click the Start button.

A Flow Rate setting below 20 that persists for more than ten seconds generates a Low Flow Rate
fault. After approx. ten seconds, the Alarm Banner should appear.

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 This is FactoryTalk View Machine Edition’s simplest alarm display. By default, it only shows you the
most current alarm. FactoryTalk View Machine Edition provides additional Alarm objects to provide
more functionality. For example, later in this lab you have the option to add an Alarm History to this
application.

6. Click the Ack Alarm [F1] button , or depress the F1 key on the keyboard to acknowledge the
“Tank 1 Low Flow Rate” alarm.

7. Quickly press the Flow Rate button and enter a value of ‘25’.
You must act quickly because if you are slow the Low Flow Rate alarm will re-occur.

8. After approx. ten seconds, press the Flow Rate button again and enter a value of ‘245’.
While the flow rate is ramping up, after a few seconds the system should display a
“Tank 1 Flow Obstructed” alarm.

9. Approx. ten seconds later, the system should display a “Tank 1 High Flow Rate” alarm.

10. Click the Ack Alarm [F1] button , or depress the F1 key on the keyboard to acknowledge the
“Tank1 High Flow Rate” alarm.
Remember, in its default configuration the Alarm Banner displays the most current alarm. Thus, the
‘Tank 1 High Flow Rate’ alarm superseded the ‘Tank 1 Flow Obstructed’ alarm.

11. Click the Stop Process button to end the simulated process.

12. Click the Shutdown button to end the FactoryTalk View Machine Edition Test Application
emulation.

Congratulations!!

You have successfully created a FactoryTalk View Studio for Machine Edition application that uses
alarms, created a runtime file; and, exercised the application on your desktop.

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Chapter 3: FactoryTalk View Machine Edition -
Advanced
Completing this section requires approximately 25 minutes.

Symbol Factory is a new graphics library interface that can be launched from FactoryTalk View Studio
v6.0. It is a common library between FactoryTalk View ME and SE. Symbol Factory is built on Software
Toolbox’s Symbol Factory, and contains over 5,000 graphical objects. Approximately 4,000 of these are
vector graphics, the remainder are static bitmaps. The Symbol Factory library supports drag-and-drop and
copy/paste onto a native FactoryTalk View display.

In addition to the addition of the Symbol Factory graphics library, FactoryTalk View ME v6.0 also provides
improved color animation. Color animation now has a Shaded fill type which gives depth to the object’s
current state by using a tight dot pattern to give the appearance of shades. While choosing the new
Original fill type option allows you to keep the look and feel of the original object.

In this section you will get a look at the following new features available in v6.0 of FactoryTalk View ME:

Symbol Factory library

Enhanced color animation

Opening FactoryTalk View Studio

You need to start FactoryTalk View Studio to work with a FactoryTalk View Machine Edition application.

1. On the Windows Start menu, select Programs > FactoryTalk View Studio:

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 Note that you can also select Programs > Rockwell Software > FactoryTalk View > FactoryTalk
View Studio on the Start menu.

2. Select the InstantFizz Advanced project in the existing application list. Verify that English is the
selected Language and click Open.

FactoryTalk View Studio loads the application – it will take a few seconds.

3. Click the Maximize button to maximize FactoryTalk View Studio.

Using Symbol Factory graphics

In this section you will create a new display, add a Multistate Pushbutton and Multistate Indicator to the
display and edit those objects to display graphics from the new Symbol Factory library. This will allow you
to get a look at the types of graphics that can be found in the Symbol Factory library, as well as how the
library fits into the FactoryTalk View Studio interface.

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Overview of the FactoryTalk View Studio interface

FactoryTalk View
Studio menu bar and
toolbar(s)

Workspace

Explorer window

Diagnostics list

Status bar

Menu bar – contains the menus for the active window. Available windows depend on which type of
editor or window is active.
Toolbar(s) – contains buttons for commands commonly used in the active window.
Explorer window – displays folders containing FactoryTalk Directory structure and FactoryTalk View
Studio editors. At the top is the local computer and local directory, below them are application-specific
folders, and at the bottom are system and security folders. The Explorer includes the Application
window and the Communications window, accessible through tabs at the bottom.
Workspace – graphic displays and various editors are displayed in this area, depending on what is
selected in the Explorer. If Workbook Mode is selected on the View menu, this pane displays tabs
that allow you to switch between each currently open display or graphic.
Diagnostics list – the exact information displayed here depends on how FactoryTalk Diagnostics
has been set up, but generally this list displays messages from FactoryTalk Diagnostics.
Status bar – provides information about the active window or selected tool or command.

Create a new display

1. Expand the Graphics folder in the Explorer pane. Right-click Displays and select New to create a
new Display.

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 A new display is opened in the workspace area.

Add and configure a Multistate Pushbutton

1. Select the Multistate Pushbutton object in the Objects toolbar,

then click and drag the mouse to draw a square on the display:

When you release the mouse button, a Multistate Pushbutton is drawn on the display.

2. Double-click the new Multistate Pushbutton to open its properties window.

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3. On the General tab you can configure general properties of the Multistate Pushbutton, such as its
appearance and the number of states. Set the Border style to None and the Back style to
Transparent:

4. Click the States tab to configure button states. Select State0 to configure a graphic image to display
on the button for the “off” or 0 state. Click the browse button to select an image as shown below.

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 The Image Browser is opened:

5. Images listed on the Image Browser are in the FactoryTalk View ME Image library. To select an
image from the new Symbol Factory graphic library, click the Launch Library… button as shown
above. The Symbol Factory library is opened, with 3-D Pushbuttons Etc displayed:

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 Select a pushbutton graphic in the “off” state, such as:

6. Click the Copy button to copy the selected button to the Windows clipboard:

The Symbol Factory library window is automatically minimized.

7. Click the Paste from Library button to paste the graphic you selected from Symbol Factory into the
project’s Image library. You will be prompted for a unique image name; leave the default name of ‘3-D
red button (not pressed)’ and click OK. The selected image is shown in the Preview box:

Note that images are copied from the Symbol Factory library to the project’s Image library so that they are
included when you back up the project and move it to another location. You can see the Symbol Factory
image in your project’s Image library by opening the Images folder in the application Explorer and looking for
the 3-D red button (not pressed) image.

8. Click OK to apply the image to your pushbutton.

9. Click the Image scaled checkbox to scale the State0 graphic to the size of your pushbutton:

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10. Now repeat these steps for pushbutton State1.
Select State1 to configure a graphic image to display on the button for the “on” or 1 state. Click the
browse button to select an image:

11. Click Launch Library… to select an image from the new Symbol Factory graphic library.

12. This time, select a pushbutton graphic in the “on” state, such as:

13. Click the Copy button to copy the selected button to the clipboard:

The Symbol Factory library window is again automatically minimized.

14. Click the Paste from Library button to paste the graphic you selected from Symbol Factory into the
project’s Image library. You will be again prompted for a unique image name; this time give the
graphic a name of ‘3-D red button (pressed)’ and click OK. The selected image is shown in the
Preview box:

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15. Click OK to apply the image to your pushbutton.

16. Click the Image scaled checkbox to scale the State1 graphic to the size of your pushbutton.

17. Click the Connections tab to select a tag for your pushbutton.

18. Click the tag browse button for the Value property (as shown above) to open the Tag Browser:

A Boolean tag called mybool has been created for you. Click InstantFizz Advanced in the Folder
list, and select the mybool tag in the list as shown below. Click OK.

19. Click OK on the Multistate Pushbutton Properties dialog to accept all of your changes.

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Add and configure a Multistate Indicator

1. Select the Multistate Indicator object in the Objects toolbar,

then click and drag the mouse to draw a square on the display next to the Multistate Pushbutton you
already added. When you release the mouse button, a Multistate Indicator is drawn on the display:

2. Double-click the Multistate Indicator to configure its properties.

On the General tab, set the Border style to None and the Back style to Transparent. Set the Number
of states to 2:

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3. On the States tab, select State0, then click the browse button to select an Image for the ‘off’ state:

4. Click Launch Library… on the Image Browser to select a graphic from the Symbol Factory library.
The Symbol Factory library is opened, with 3-D Pushbuttons Etc displayed. Browse the list of
Categories to find the Gadget Lights 1 category:

Select a light graphic in the “off” state, such as:

5. Click the Copy button to copy the selected button to the Windows clipboard:

The Symbol Factory library window is automatically minimized.

6. Click the Paste from Library button to paste the graphic you selected from Symbol Factory into the
project’s Image library. You will be again prompted for a unique image name; this time give the
graphic a name of ‘Pilot light (Red Off)’ and click OK. The selected image is shown in the Preview
box.

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7. Click OK to apply the image to your Multistate Indicator.

8. Click the Image scaled checkbox to scale the State0 graphic to the size of your Multistate Indicator
object:

9. Now repeat these steps for State1. Select State1. Click the browse button to select an Image for the
‘on’ state:

10. Click Launch Library… on the Image Browser to select a graphic from the Symbol Factory library.
The Symbol Factory library is opened, with the Gadget Lights 1 category still displayed. Select a
light graphic in the “on” state, such as:

11. Click the Copy button to copy the selected button to the Windows clipboard. The Symbol Factory
library window is automatically minimized.

12. Click the Paste from Library button to paste the graphic you selected from Symbol Factory into the
project’s Image library. You will be again prompted for a unique image name; this time give the
graphic a name of ‘Pilot light (Red On)’ and click OK. The selected image is shown in the Preview
box.

13. Click OK to apply the image to your Multistate Indicator.

14. Click the Image scaled checkbox to scale the State1 graphic to the size of your Multistate Indicator
object.

15. Click the Connections tab to select a tag for your Multistate Indicator. Click the tag browse button

to open the Tag Browser for the Indicator property.

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16. Select the Boolean tag called mybool on the tag list and click OK.

17. Click OK on the Multistate Indicator Properties dialog to accept all of your changes.

Add a shutdown button

At runtime, the Shutdown button is used to stop the running application, stop all project components, and
return to Windows.

1. Select the Shutdown button object on the Objects toolbar,

then draw a Shutdown button at the bottom of the display so that the display looks like this:

Double-click the Shutdown button to open its Properties dialog.

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2. Click the Label tab and Enter ‘Exit’ for the shutdown button caption:

3. Click OK to accept your changes.

Test the application

Now that you have added Multistate Pushbutton and Indicator objects, you can test your application.

1. Click the Test Display button on the toolbar.

The display switches to test mode.

2. Click the pushbutton on your display. Watch as the pushbutton and the indicator light change to the
‘on’ state. You should see the different Symbol Factory graphics you selected for each state.

3. When you are finished, click the Edit Display button on the toolbar to return to edit mode.

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Animation enhancements
In this section you will add a Symbol Factory graphic to your display and configure enhanced color
animation for it.

Add graphics to the display

1. Click the Objects menu item and select Symbol Factory. (You must click in the display to give it
focus and make the Objects menu visible.)

The Symbol Factory library is opened or restored from being minimized if it was not closed from a
previous instance.

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2. Browse the list of Categories and select Pumps. The available types of Symbol Factory pump
graphics are displayed:

3. Look for the graphic called Centrifugal Pump 4, as shown below:

4. You can drag-and-drop graphics from the Symbol Factory library directly to a display; click the pump
and drag and drop it on your display. Minimize the Symbol Factory window when finished and resize
the pump graphic to make it larger. Your display should now look something like this:

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5. For comparison, you will also add a graphic from the existing FactoryTalk View ME graphics library.
In the FactoryTalk View Studio application Explorer, expand Graphics and then Libraries. Find and
double-click the Motors Reliance graphics library:

6. Select the motor graphic shown circled above, and drag and drop it to your display. Resize it to be
about the same size as the Symbol Factory pump graphic. Your display should now look something
like this:

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Configure animation for the graphics

1. Right-click on the Symbol Factory pump graphic. Select Animation, then Color. The Animation
dialog is opened to the Color tab:

2. First you must select the tag that the graphic will reference for its animation value. Click the Tags
button to select a tag. The Tag Browser is opened.
Select the mybool tag you used for the Pushbutton and Indicator objects and click OK. The tag
name is shown in the Animation dialog.
The default animation colors are red for a value of 0 and green for a value of 1. You will set the 0 (off)
color to be the graphic’s “original” color and leave 1 (on) at green.

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 Leave the A) 0 state selected and choose Original for the Fill Style:

Note that the custom color selections are disabled when you select the Original Fill Style. This is
because the graphic is displayed in its original colors for the selected state.

3. Select the B) 1 state to configure its color animation. You can leave the color selections for the B) 1
state as is.

4. For the B) 1 state Fill Style, select Shaded.

5. Click Apply to apply your animations, then Close to close the dialog.

6. Now configure the color animation for the FactoryTalk View ME library graphic. Right-click the motor
and click Animation, then Color. The Animation dialog is opened.

7. Just like with the Symbol Factory graphic, you first need to select the Tag that will be referenced for
the graphic animation. Click the Tags button to select a tag. The Tag Browser is opened.
Select the mybool tag you used for the Pushbutton and Indicator objects and click OK. The tag name
is shown in the Animation dialog.
The default animation colors are again red for a value of 0 and green for a value of 1. You will set the
0 (off) color to be the graphic’s “original” color and leave 1 (on) at green.
Select the A) 0 state and choose Original for the Fill Style.

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8. Select the B) 1 state to configure its color animation. You can leave the color selections for the B) 1
state as is.
For the B) 1 state Fill Style, select Shaded. The Animation Color tab should look like this:

9. Click Apply to apply your animations, then Close to close the dialog.

Test the graphic animation

1. Click the Test Display button on the toolbar to try your animation.

The display switches to test mode.

2. The pushbutton, indicator, and two graphics should be in the ‘off’ state. The motor and pump should
be in their original colors.
Click the pushbutton on your display to see the color animations. The Symbol Factory object
shading should be retained but with its color changed to green. The FactoryTalk View ME graphic
shading should also be retained. In previous versions of FactoryTalk View ME, shading was not
retained for graphic color animations.

3. When you are finished, click the Edit Display button on the toolbar to return to edit mode.

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Test the application
Recall that there are two methods available to test an entire application. One is to download the
application to a PanelView Plus terminal. The other is to use the terminal emulation capability that is
included with FactoryTalk Studio for Machine Edition.

You will be testing the application on your PanelView Plus terminal but before the application can be
executed on either the desktop or on a terminal, you must set the Startup configuration. This
configuration allows you to specify which project components to start at run time. It is very important to set
the initial display for an application.

Set the startup configuration

1. First, save the new display you created in the last section. Click the Save button:

You are prompted for a name for the display. Enter ‘SFDisplay’ and click OK.

2. Now find and double-click Startup in the application Explorer:

The Startup configuration dialog is opened.

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3. Select the SFDisplay in the Initial graphic list:

All other settings can remain at their default. Click OK to accept your configuration.

Running the application on a PanelView Plus terminal

Now you will test the entire application on your PanelView Plus terminal. To do this, you have to build a
run time application and transfer it to the PanelView.

Build the .MER

1. Select Create Runtime Application on the Application menu:

2. On the Create Runtime Application dialog, verify that the runtime file name is ‘InstantFizz
Advanced.mer’.
The file is saved to the default Runtime file location, C:\Documents and Settings\All
Users\Documents\RSView Enterprise\ME\Runtime.

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The Conversion to development application options on the Create Runtime Application dialog allow later
recovery of the design files from the runtime project using the Application Manager, if allowed. Options are:
Always allow conversion [Default]
The design information is always included with the runtime, so that it may be restored from the .MER.
The resulting .MER requires more terminal memory to store the file.
Never allow conversion
Design information cannot be recovered from an MER created with this option selected.
The .MER created requires the least amount of terminal memory.
Conversion protected by password
When using Application Manager to extract the design information from the runtime file, the user will be
prompted for the configured password.
The resulting .MER requires more terminal memory to store the file.

The FactoryTalk ViewPoint version option allows the user to specify whether or not published displays will
be included in the MER file.
Include ViewPoint Content

Must be selected for the application to include the ViewPoint published displays.

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3. On the Select Languages dialog, make sure that English is selected as the initial runtime
application language and click Finish:

A progress dialog will be displayed while the runtime file is being created.

Download the runtime .MER to a PanelView Plus terminal

1. To download the runtime .MER to the PanelView Plus terminal at your workstation, click Transfer
Utility on the Tools menu:

Note that you can also click the Transfer Utility icon on the toolbar.

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 The Transfer Utility is opened:

2. Click the Source File browse button to select the runtime .MER file to download. Select the
InstantFizz Advanced.mer file you created in the last step and click Open.

3. Double-click the EtherNet, Ethernet driver to expand the item.

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4. Select the PanelView Plus found at IP address 192.168.1.20 by clicking on it once. (It may look
different from the screen shot below.)

5. Click Download to transfer the runtime file to your PanelView Plus terminal.

If you are asked if you want to overwrite the existing file, click Yes.

6. You will see a progress bar, and when the download process completes a confirmation dialog is
shown:

Click OK to acknowledge the dialog.

7. Click the Exit button to close the Transfer Utility.

Run the application on a PanelView Plus terminal

In this section, you will work with a PanelView Plus terminal. Follow the steps below on your terminal to
run the FactoryTalk View ME runtime application you just created.

1. If FactoryTalk View ME Station is not already running on the terminal, double-tap the FTView ME

Station icon on the desktop.

2. Press the Load Application [F1] button.

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3. Select the InstantFizz Advanced.mer file from those available from the terminal’s Internal Storage.

4. Press Load [F2] to load the runtime file into memory.

5. When you are prompted, press Yes [F7] to overwrite the terminal’s current communication
configuration with the configuration contained within the InstantFizz Advanced.mer file.

6. Once successfully loaded, press the Run Application [F2] to start executing the runtime file.

7. While the terminal is starting the application, an update dialog is displayed:

8. After the start-up processing completes, you should see your application’s startup display.

9. Click the pushbutton on your display to see the color animations on the PanelView Plus terminal.
The Symbol Factory object shading should be retained but with its color changed to green. The
FactoryTalk View ME graphic shading should also be retained. In previous versions of FactoryTalk
View ME, shading was not retained for graphic color animations.
When you are finished, press the Exit button to terminate the application.

Congratulations!!! You have successfully used the new Symbol Factory library and enhanced color
animation feature of FactoryTalk View 6.0.

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Chapter 4: FactoryTalk ViewPoint Machine Edition
- Beginner
Completing this section requires approximately 20 minutes.

FactoryTalk® ViewPoint is an add-on to FactoryTalk View ME running on PanelView Plus that provides
for a fully scalable, fully animated, read-only view of existing applications from a Web browser.

To make information about your plant or process available on demand from a Web browser in your office,
home, or hotel, all you have to do is select the FactoryTalk View graphic displays you want to make ready
for the Web, and then publish the displays to the FactoryTalk ViewPoint Server which runs on a
PanelView Plus.

There is no installation of any Rockwell Software products on the browser computer: all you need to
connect to a published FactoryTalk ViewPoint Web application is the name (or IP address) of the
PanelView Plus hosting the FactoryTalk ViewPoint Server that stores the application.

Once you enter a simple address directly into your Web browser using the name or IP address, the
browser will connect to the published web application and open the initial display selected. Use navigation
buttons in the application to view other published displays, or use the web browser's navigation tools.

Displays in a FactoryTalk ViewPoint application are read-only. Graphic objects in the displays are fully
animated; however, you cannot use the objects to write to tags or to start and stop HMI components. For
example, a numeric input object with a tag connection will display the tag's current value, but will not
permit downloads.

About this Lab

This chapter focuses on developing and running web applications for FactoryTalk View ME, using
FactoryTalk ViewPoint ME.

1. First, you will learn how to create a FactoryTalkViewPoint ME web application that will run on the
FactoryTalk ViewPoint server installed on PanelView Plus.

2. Second, you will run the application by connecting the ViewPoint client to the PanelView Plus.
You will also explore other FactoryTalk ViewPoint features and capabilities, and use some of the
advanced FactoryTalk View ME features from within FactoryTalk ViewPoint.

Setting up a FactoryTalk ViewPoint ME application

In this section, you will follow step-by-step instructions to complete the publishing process. This process
involves taking an existing FactoryTalk View ME application and creating a Web application using the
FactoryTalk ViewPoint Administration tool.

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You will learn how to:

Publish displays from an existing FactoryTalk View ME application

Configure FactoryTalk ViewPoint ME Security

Transfer the published application to the PanelView Plus terminal

FactoryTalk ViewPoint Administration

FactoryTalk ViewPoint’s configuration is done through the FactoryTalk ViewPoint Administration tool,
launched from FactoryTalk View Studio. Here, the desired displays are selected and published so that
they will be available to any browser client connecting to your operator interface terminal.

With FactoryTalk ViewPoint ME, the Administration tool runs on the same computer as FactoryTalk View
Studio and is installed using the FactoryTalk ViewPoint ME install available on the ViewPoint CD. The
FactoryTalk ViewPoint ME Administration tool is separate from the ViewPoint ME server that runs on
PanelView Plus because the components used to convert and publish ViewPoint displays are not
supported on the PanelView Plus and are too large to store on the terminal.

For the purpose of this lab, FactoryTalk ViewPoint ME is already installed. The install is available from
the FactoryTalk ViewPoint CD or as a stand-alone install. See Answer ID 66110 on the Rockwell
Automation knowledgebase for more details.

1. From the Start menu, select Programs > Rockwell Software > FactoryTalk View > FactoryTalk
View Studio or Programs > FactoryTalk View Studio as shown below.

If FactoryTalk View Studio is already open, select File > Open Application…, then Yes when asked
to Close the application that is currently open. Skip to step 3.

2. Select Machine Edition on the Application Type Selection screen:

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3. Open the existing project called InstantFizz Advanced VP.

4. Select ViewPoint Administration from the Application menu to launch the tool.

The Administration tool should now be displayed.

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Publishing a FactoryTalk View ME Application
Use the FactoryTalk ViewPoint Administration tool to publish the displays that will be included in the web
application. You can easily select all displays or choose the displays on an individual basis. These
selected displays are then published and will be included with the runtime file when created.

Let’s go ahead and publish the application.

1. Maximize the FactoryTalk ViewPoint Administration tool window.

2. A list of displays within the InstantFizz Advanced VP application will be displayed.

3. Depending on the size and number of displays, the publishing process may take several minutes
when performed for the first time. Subsequent publish actions are optimized to analyze and prepare
any displays that have been changed or selected to be published. In the interest of time, a majority of
the displays have already been published and are currently selected in the Web Enable column.

However, the 5 Packaging display is not currently published so let’s add it to the list and complete
the publishing process. To publish the application, change the initial display to 3 Filling, select the
checkbox next to 5 Packaging and click the Publish displays button.

Observe progress as the tool analyzes the selected displays and prepares these displays to be
hosted in the browser. This will take a few minutes.

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4. When the publishing process is complete, you will be provided with a link to the publishing report
which will describe any errors or warnings that may have occurred during publication. Any objects
which are not supported in FactoryTalk ViewPoint will be listed as a warning.

Feel free to open this report and review its content. Close the report when finished.

You have successfully published the FactoryTalk View ME application. Before we learn how to transfer
the published displays to the PanelView Plus terminal, let’s configure security.

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Configuring FactoryTalk ViewPoint ME Security
FactoryTalk ViewPoint ME security allows you to secure access to the published web application.

1. Select Security Settings on the red navigation bar in the FactoryTalk ViewPoint Administration tool
window.

2. From the Security Settings area you can change FactoryTalk ViewPoint security for currently
configured FactoryTalk users of the Machine Edition (Local) directory. There are currently 3 users
(Maintenance, ShiftManager & PlantManager) that have been configured in FactoryTalk Security for
this application. Additional users can be added using FactoryTalk View Studio or the Administration
Console. Let’s start by giving the users, Maintenance & Plant Manager, access to the published web
application. Check the Viewer checkbox next to the Maintenance and PlantManager users.

3. Since security is optional and disabled by default in FactoryTalk ViewPoint, we can enable security by
clicking the: Require users to log on to open the published Web application checkbox. When
you are done, your security should be setup as follows:

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4. Finally, you need to save the security settings. Click the Save button.

5. Close the FactoryTalk ViewPoint Administration Tool window by clicking on in the upper right-
hand corner.

Creating a runtime file with ViewPoint content

Now that the selected displays have been published and security is configured, when the runtime file
(*.MER) is created, the published displays and security settings will automatically be included in this file.
The transfer of the MER file to the terminal will download the FactoryTalk View ME application as well as
the published displays and security settings.

In subsequent creation of the runtime application, FactoryTalk ViewPoint will automatically check to see if
any of the selected published displays have been modified since their last publish. If they have, the newer
version of those displays are re-published in the background before being included in the MER file. There
is no need for you to launch the FactoryTalk ViewPoint Administration again!

FactoryTalk ViewPoint is supported on the PanelView Plus 700-1500 terminals and allows one client
connection in the FactoryTalk ViewPoint 1.1 release. Additional client licenses may be sold in a future
release. The PanelView Plus terminals must have a minimum of 64MB Flash and 128 MB RAM to use
ViewPoint.

As of 5.10.01 firmware (or higher), FactoryTalk ViewPoint is available as an option to load on the
supported PanelView Plus terminals and is embedded into the firmware. The firmware upgrade wizard is
used to upgrade terminals in the field.

The firmware can be downloaded from - http://support.rockwellautomation.com/ControlFlash/FUW.asp

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1. Now let’s create our runtime application that you will download to the PanelView Plus. Select
Application > Create Runtime Application.

2. Make sure Runtime 6.0 Application is selected for the MER type. Make sure the Include
ViewPoint Content checkbox is selected; this will ensure that the ViewPoint published displays and
security settings are included in the MER. Click Save.

3. Select Yes if prompted to replace existing file.

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4. Verify English is the only language selected to include in the runtime application. Click Finish.

The selected default language of the application in the FactoryTalk View ME Language Configuration
editor, will determine which language is published in FactoryTalk ViewPoint. Support for multiple
languages is available as of FactoryTalk ViewPoint 1.1. However, only one language can be
published at a time.

5. As the runtime file is created, you will see the different stages. ViewPoint is one of the stages in this
process and it may take some time to incorporate all of the published displays.

6. When the runtime file is finished compiling, launch the File Transfer Utility from the tool bar.

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7. Click on to browse for the runtime file. Select InstantFizz Advanced VP.mer runtime file and
click Open.

8. Select the PanelView Plus at 192.168.1.20 and Download your application to the terminal.

9. If prompted, click Yes to overwrite the existing file.

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10. Once the download completes, click OK and close the Transfer Utility

11. Now, turn to your PanelView Plus. Launch FactoryTalk View ME Station from the desktop icon on

the PanelView Plus if it is not already running.

12. On the FactoryTalk View ME Station configuration screen, click Load Application [F1] and select
InstantFizz Advanced VP.mer. Then click Load [F2] and Yes [F7] to replace the existing
communication settings.

13. When the application is finished loading, click Run Application [F2] to start the Project. If you are
unfamiliar with this project, please take a few minutes to explore the project on PanelView Plus before
running it in FactoryTalk ViewPoint.

Running an application in a browser

The next two sections involve running the ViewPoint ME application in a browser.

You can connect to an existing FactoryTalk ViewPoint application from any computer running a supported
Web browser. All you need is the name or the IP address of the operator interface terminal (PanelView
Plus 700 -1500) running the FactoryTalk ViewPoint Server for the application.

What is Silverlight?
FactoryTalk ViewPoint uses Microsoft’s Silverlight technology to visualize FactoryTalk View content in a
browser. Microsoft Silverlight is a new Web presentation technology that was created to run on a variety
of platforms to deliver applications for the Web. It enables the creation of rich, visually stunning and
interactive experiences that can run everywhere: within browsers and on multiple devices and desktop
operating systems.

If Silverlight is not installed on a client computer that connects to the PanelView Plus and the client
computer is connected to the internet, the client computer is automatically redirected to the Microsoft
Silverlight installation site for download. If the client computer is not connected to the internet,
instructions for installing Silverlight are automatically provided in the browser.

For the purpose of this lab, Silverlight has already been installed.

Connecting a Client

1. Launch Internet Explorer from the desktop icon and enter the following address:
http://192.168.1.20/FTVP where 192.168.1.20 is the IP address of your PanelView Plus.

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2. Earlier, you had enabled Security and you are now required to login to access the ViewPoint
application. Login using the username ShiftManager and password ShiftManager.

3. Remember that you did not grant “viewer rights” to ShiftManager. An error is displayed on the log on
page.

4. Login using the username PlantManager and password PlantManager. The PlantManager has
viewer rights to the application.

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5. In Internet Explorer, you will be redirected to the InstantFizz Filling display since we had selected this
as our initial display in the FactoryTalk ViewPoint Administration tool. The FactoryTalk ViewPoint
screens automatically scales to fit the size of the browser window.

6. Maximize the browser window if it is not already at full size.

FactoryTalk ViewPoint provides a thin client solution for FactoryTalk View. There is no need to install
and maintain any Rockwell Software on the client machine. This lowers total cost of ownership,
minimizes downtime and improves security. FactoryTalk ViewPoint also provides convenient access
to FactoryTalk View applications from anywhere (central office, home, internet) which extends the
reach of visualization to remote, casual and mobile users such as plant managers, central
maintenance engineers, OEMs and System Integrators.

7. FactoryTalk ViewPoint provides a rich, interactive browser user experience. All of the navigation built
into the FactoryTalk View ME InstantFizz Advanced VP application also works in the browser.
In Internet Explorer, navigate from the Filling display to the Packaging display to observe how the
navigation functionality works in FactoryTalk ViewPoint.

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8. The Packaging display was added to the published displays list earlier on and should now be shown
in the browser. Observe that the animation used to simulate the boxes moving along the line is fully
functional in FactoryTalk ViewPoint. FactoryTalk ViewPoint supports full animation of FactoryTalk
View ME displays without the need to refresh your browser.

9. Navigate from the Packaging display to the Labeling display.

10. The Labeling display should now be shown in FactoryTalk ViewPoint. Once again, observe that the
labeling line is used to show line status and is updating dynamically. FactoryTalk ViewPoint is fully
interactive and does not use static “screen captures” to display information in the browser.

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11. Now, turn to your PanelView Plus and navigate to the Labeling display. Use the ‘Product_Name’
Label button to change the product label currently used in the line. Note how quickly the ViewPoint
client updates back on the desktop computer. Since FactoryTalk ViewPoint does not currently
support tag writes, this change cannot be made from the ViewPoint client.

12. Returning to your browser, resize the window by clicking on the bottom right hand corner of the
Internet Explorer window, while holding down the left mouse key and dragging the window to a new
size. If the Internet Explorer window is maximized, you can double-click on the top blue Internet
Explorer title bar to re-size the window.
Notice the screen resizes at runtime. This allows you to develop a single display and run it on a wide
variety of client devices with different screen sizes and resolutions (including wireless, mobile
devices).

13. Navigate from the Labeling display to the Languages display.

14. The Languages display is now shown over the navigation button that was just clicked on. This
display has been configured in FactoryTalk View ME as a “pop-up” display and is supported by
FactoryTalk ViewPoint.

You’ll see a blank area where it appears as if some objects have been removed from the “pop-up”
display. Any objects which are not supported by FactoryTalk ViewPoint are removed from the
displays during the publishing process.

15. Turn to your PanelView Plus terminal and navigate to the same Languages display. Note that the
Language Switch Button objects, with flag images, exist within FactoryTalk View ME on the terminal
but not within FactoryTalk ViewPoint on the desktop. This is due to the fact that these objects are
unsupported in FactoryTalk ViewPoint.

Support for language switching and alarming is targeted for a future release.

16. In Internet Explorer on the desktop PC, click on the Close button to shut down the
Languages display.

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Congratulations! You have successfully published the FactoryTalk View ME InstantFizz Advanced VP
application and can now connect to it using your web browser. Note that FactoryTalk ViewPoint
automatically converted and published the displays to be included in the ME application; you did not need
to make any modifications to the FactoryTalk View ME application to accomplish this.

Keep the browser open and move to the next exercise to learn how to run the InstantFizz Advanced VP
application using standard browser features.

Using browser features with FactoryTalk ViewPoint

We all use the internet frequently as a daily part of our work and home lives, so most people are familiar
with how to use Browser functionality. Many applications run in the browser but do not utilize the
features of the browser. One of the major advantages of using FactoryTalk ViewPoint is that it allows you
to use the features of the browser that you are already familiar with and does not require the installation
of any Rockwell Software. This section focuses on exploring your FactoryTalk ViewPoint project using
the features in the browser.

Using Browser Features

1. If the Internet Explorer on your PC is not currently open to ViewPoint, connect to the FactoryTalk
ViewPoint server by typing the following link in Internet Explorer: http://192.168.1.20/FTVP where
192.168.1.20 is the IP address of your PanelView Plus.

2. You will be instructed to enter this URL several more times throughout the remainder of the lab. If
you get tired of manually entering the URL, just use the Address Bar located at the top of the Internet
Explorer window. FactoryTalk ViewPoint supports all of the standard browser features!

3. Navigate to several displays. Use the Back, then Forward buttons in your browser. You will see that
this allows you to navigate through your browser history just as if you were viewing any other website.

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4. Select Favorites, then Plant Overview. The use of pre-configured Favorites provides quick, on-
demand access to important FactoryTalk ViewPoint displays.

5. Select Favorites again and under the InstantFizz - PanelViewPlus folder to select Packaging.
Browser folders can help organize multiple Favorites to different applications.

Congratulations!!! We hope you have enjoyed using some of the features present in Internet Explorer
that help make using FactoryTalk ViewPoint an intuitive and enjoyable experience. You can keep your
browser open and move to the next exercise.

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Chapter 5: FactoryTalk ViewPoint Machine Edition
- Advanced
Completing this section requires approximately 25 minutes.

This section focuses on using some of the advanced features that FactoryTalk View ME has to offer with
FactoryTalk ViewPoint.

In this section you will learn about the following FactoryTalk ViewPoint features:

Trending

Parameter Files

Symbol factory

Color animation

Inactivity Timeout

If the InstantFizz Advanced VP application and your Internet Explorer browser are already open, you can
skip to the next section, Trending.

If not, please follow the steps below before proceeding to the next section.

Opening the application

1. Turn to your PanelView Plus and launch FactoryTalk View ME Station from the desktop icon on the

PanelView Plus if it is not already running.

2. On the FactoryTalk View ME Station configuration screen, click Load Application [F1] and select
InstantFizz Advanced VP.mer.

3. Click Load [F2] then Yes [F7] to replace the existing communication settings.

4. When the application is finished loading, click Run Application [F2] to start the Project. If you are
unfamiliar with this project, please take a few minutes to explore the project on PanelView Plus before
running it in FactoryTalk ViewPoint.

5. To run the application in FactoryTalk ViewPoint, launch Internet Explorer from your Desktop.

6. Type in the following link in Internet Explorer address field: http://192.168.1.20/FTVP where
192.168.1.20 is the IP address of your PanelView Plus.

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Trending
FactoryTalk View ME trending is now supported in FactoryTalk ViewPoint. During the publishing process,
the FactoryTalk View ME trend control is replaced by a compatible Silverlight Web control developed by
Rockwell Automation. Therefore, the control will look differently in your browser than it does on the
PanelViewPlus terminal.

The FactoryTalk ViewPoint trend displays real-time data for the pens defined in FactoryTalk View Studio
for the original trend object. Support for FactoryTalk View ME historical data is not available in this
version. The properties that are retained in a FactoryTalk ViewPoint trend, if they were configured in the
original FactoryTalk View ME trend object, are:

General tab
Chart style (Standard only), Chart update mode (Automatic only)

Display tab

No display settings are supported.

Pens tab
Tag or Expression definition, Visible (On or Off), Width, Min and Max values

X-Axis tab
Chart time span, Major grid lines (number).

Y-Axis tab
Automatic (Use best fit for data), Preset (Use pens' Min and Max) and Custom (Actual min/max) value
options, Major grid lines (number), Draw pens on independent scale (only).

Common tab
Size (overall) and Position settings.

Connections tab
Pen connections (tags or expressions) only.

1. In the ViewPoint client, navigate to the Trend display.

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2. A FactoryTalk ViewPoint trend consists of the trend chart, the pens, a current value legend, a value
bar, an X and Y axis, play and pause buttons, and a pan and zoom slider. Note all the components
that make up the trend control.

Trend chart
Current value legend

Value bar with

pen markers

Pan and
Zoom slider Play and pause

Y and X axes

3. The current value legend on the right edge of the trend chart lists all the pens defined in the original
FactoryTalk View trend object. It indicates the tag name or pen description, the value and color.
Clear or select the pen’s checkbox to hide or show the associated pen.

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4. Click on the Good pen to: display its value range on the Y-axis, highlight it in the trend chart and if it
intersects the value bar, its tooltip will be larger than others on the value bar.

5. Drag the value bar across the trend data in a FactoryTalk ViewPoint trend to display values
associated with specific trend data points. Note the pen values in the tooltip and current value legend
also update to the value where the pen intersects the value bar

6. Click Play to resume viewing data from the point where the trend was paused

7. The horizontal slider beneath the X-axis or the chart itself can be used to pan and zoom data.
Click and drag the left handle on the slider to zoom into the trend data.

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8. Click and drag the slider to pan the trend data.

9. Pause the trend by clicking on the Pause button under the legend and click anywhere on the trend
chart to drag back and forth as another method to pan the data.

Symbol Factory
Symbol Factory is built on Software Toolbox’s Symbol Factory, and contains over 5,000 graphical objects.
Approximately 4,000 of these are vector graphics, the remainder are static bitmaps. The Symbol Factory
library is now available in FactoryTalk View ME 6.0 and supported by FactoryTalk ViewPoint.

1. In FactoryTalk View Studio, open the 8 Inventory display.

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2. Right click on the pallet stack located on the conveyor and select Animation then Horizontal
Position to view how animation is applied to a Symbol Factory object.

The pallet is just one of the thousands of Symbol Factory graphic objects that FactoryTalk ViewPoint
supports when used within your FactoryTalk View ME 6.0 application. Object arrangement, such as
grouping, and animation are an example of the functionality that can be applied to these graphic
objects in the same manner they are used with native FactoryTalk View ME objects.

3. Click Close to shutdown the animation window.

4. Switch to your internet browser and navigate to Packaging, then click on the Pallet Inventory button.

5. Now, turn to your PanelView Plus terminal and also navigate to Packaging, then Pallet Inventory.

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6. Click on the Start or Stop Motor Control buttons to start and stop the conveyor motor. These button
images are also part of the Symbol Factory library and have been used with a Maintained pushbutton
object.

Note how quickly the ViewPoint client updates back on the desktop computer. Since FactoryTalk
ViewPoint does not currently support tag writes, this change cannot be made from the ViewPoint
client.

Enhanced Color Animation

FactoryTalk View ME color animation has been enhanced and now has a Shaded fill type which gives
depth to the object’s current state by using a tight dot pattern to give the appearance of shades. While
choosing the new Original fill type option allows you to keep the look and feel of the original object.
These new options are now supported in FactoryTalk ViewPoint.

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1. In FactoryTalk View Studio, open the 8 Inventory display if it is not already open from the previous
section.

2. Double-click on the Conveyor Motor Control and Status object group, then single click on the motor
object.

3. Right click on the motor and select Animation, then Color to view how the new Shaded and
Original color animation options have been used.

4. Click on A) 0. The Original fill type has been selected so that the motor will remain displayed with its
original colors while in the ‘Off’ state.

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5. Click on B) 1. Note that the Shaded fill type will be during the motors ‘On’ state.

6. Click Close to shutdown the animation window.

7. Navigate to Packaging, then click on the Pallet Inventory button in both Internet Explorer running
on your desktop and on your PanelView Plus terminal.

8. On your PanelView Plus terminal, click on the Start or Stop Motor Control buttons to start and stop
the conveyor.

FactoryTalk ViewPoint updates between the motor’s Original coloring and the new Shaded option as
it changes states.

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Parameter Files
Parameter Files are used with Display navigation buttons to load parameter files for a display. This
FactoryTalk View ME functionality is supported in FactoryTalk ViewPoint.

1. In FactoryTalk View Studio, open the 2 Blending display.

2. Double-click on the Information button , for Blending Tank 1 (far left) and view the Goto
Display button properties.

Note that the Tank1 Parameter file has been selected and will be passed to the 2A Blending – Tank
Info display when the button is pressed. Click Cancel to close the properties window.

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3. Double click on the Information button, , for Blending tank 2 (middle) and view the Goto
Display button properties.

Note that the same display has been selected here as it was for Tank 1, however, the Tank2
Parameter file has been chosen so that the tags defined in that specific file will be passed when the
button is pressed. Click Cancel to close the properties window.

4. Under Graphics > Parameters in the Explorer window, double click on the Tank1 parameter file.

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 Here we can see what tag is being passed into parameter #1.

5. Repeat the previous step for the Tank2 parameter file and note the new tag that will be passed for
Blending Tank 2.

6. Switch back to your internet browser and navigate to the Blending display. Click on any of the Tank
info buttons to call the display and its associated parameter file.
We can see how tag data is successfully being passed into this pop-up display. The behavior of
parameter files is the same in both FactoryTalk View ME Station and FactoryTalk ViewPoint. Also
note that the title bar text uses Embedded Variables which are also supported by FactoryTalk
ViewPoint.

7. Close your internet browser window.

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Inactivity Timeout
FactoryTalk ViewPoint contains an inactivity timeout setting. If a web browser has been inactive for a
period of time, a message is displayed stating that the session has expired. The inactive period is
defined by a browser connected to the terminal with no display changes. When the session expires, the
client access license is released which allows another client to connect to the terminal. If the application
is secure, the currently logged on user will also be logged out.

1. Connect to the FactoryTalk ViewPoint server by typing the following link in Internet Explorer:
http://192.168.1.20/FTVP/ADMIN where 192.168.1.20 is the IP address of your PanelView Plus. Pay
special attention to include the /admin at the end of the URL.
Log on with the User Name: PlantManager and Password: PlantManager

2. The FactoryTalk ViewPoint Administration is served from the PanelView Plus to your browser. The
default inactivity timeout is 20 minutes. The inactivity timeout can be disabled or you can modify the
inactivity timeout period.

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3. Change the inactivity timeout to 2 minutes and click the Apply button.

4. Connect to the running ViewPoint application by typing the following link in Internet Explorer:
http://192.168.1.20/FTVP/ where 192.168.1.20 is the IP address of your PanelView Plus (hint: you
can avoid typing the URL by using the address bar at the top of the browser window).

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 nd
5. Before the session expires, open a 2 tab or browser instance and try to connect to the terminal by
typing the following link in Internet Explorer: http://192.168.1.20/FTVP/. Note that you are unable to
connect to the terminal because the client license is already in use by tab 1.

6. Switch back to the first tab and wait for the session to expire. Remember, the session will not expire
if you switch between displays. When the session expires you will see the message below in your
browser.

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7. After the session expires, the currently logged in user is logged off and the client access license is
nd
now available for another client to connect. Go back to the 2 tab and refresh the browser.

8. You can now log on with the User Name: PlantManager and Password: PlantManager

After log on, you can access the FactoryTalk ViewPoint application.

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9. Connect to FactoryTalk ViewPoint Administration again by typing the following link in Internet
Explorer: http://192.168.1.20/FTVP/ADMIN where 192.168.1.20 is the IP address of your PanelView
Plus. Pay special attention to include the /admin at the end of the URL.

10. Change the Inactivity Timeout back to Default settings and click Apply

11. Close Internet Explorer (including all open tabs).

Congratulations!! You have successfully used FactoryTalk ViewPoint advanced features, like trending,
parameter files, symbol factory, enhanced color animation and inactivity timeout.

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Chapter 6: FactoryTalk Machine Edition - Pick and
Choose
This section of the lab is a collection of several smaller exercises designed to guide the user through
additional features of FactoryTalk ME. The format allows you to select the features you want to work with
and you can complete these sections in any order. To help you choose, we have estimated the time it
should take for each of them.

The following table lists the available sections and the page number each starts on.

This feature… Starts on page…

Integrating other applications (10 minutes) 144

Recipe Management (15 minutes) 152

Working with security (15 minutes) 170

Additional Alarming Features (20 minutes) 183

Language Switching (20 minutes) 196

Improving productivity with parameter passing 213

(30 minutes)

Logging data (20 minutes) 232

Integrating other applications (10 minutes)

Completing this section requires approximately 10 minutes.

Sometimes, to integrate functions or restrict access to the desktop on a PanelView CE, the task of
launching other programs needs to be done from within a FactoryTalk View ME application. This can be
easily accomplished by using the Program Launcher ActiveX control.

The Program Launcher ActiveX control allows the operator to launch an .EXE (executable) program from
within a FactoryTalk View ME application. This tool allows users to view manuals, CAD drawings,
spreadsheets, websites, even videos, without having to browse to the desktop or storage card. For more
information on the Program Launcher ActiveX control, refer to answer ID 20474 in the Rockwell
Automation Knowledgebase.

With the new Foxit .PDF viewer, you can view files created with current versions of Adobe. It gives a clear
and crisp view of all pictures and font styles on PanelView terminals, and navigation is by touch for zoom,
next page/previous page, goto page, and rotate functions. From a FactoryTalk View ME application, you
can also open a .PDF to a particular page number, bookmark, or named destination, as well as zoom and
fit width.

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or Internet Explorer. The executable files for each of these file viewers are installed with FactoryTalk View
Studio and Station on the desktop, and are pre-loaded and registered on the PanelView terminal.

In this section you will:

Look at how the Program Launcher ActiveX control can be used to view a .PDF with the new Foxit
file viewer that is installed on PanelView Plus.

Have the option to see how the Program Launcher opens files in Word and Excel viewers, a media
player, or Internet Explorer.

Open the InstantFizz Advanced application

If you already have the InstantFizz Advanced application open from a previous section, you can move on
to the next section, Adding a graphic display to a project.

1. To open FactoryTalk View Studio, click Start > All Programs > Rockwell Software > FactoryTalk
View > FactoryTalk View Studio. If FactoryTalk View Studio is already open, then select File >
Open Application… to switch applications.

2. Select the existing InstantFizz Advanced application, make sure English is selected for the
Language, and click Open:

Adding a graphic display to a project

You have been provided with a ready-to-use display called Program Launcher. You will need to add the
display to the project.

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1. In the application Explorer, right-click Displays and select Add Component Into Application.

2. Browse to C:\Lab Files\ViewME - ViewPoint\ViewME\Pick and Choose folder and select Program
Launcher.gfx. Click Open to add the display to the project.

Configure the Program Launcher ActiveX properties

Now, you will need to configure its properties to allow the program launcher to launch a specific
executable (.EXE) at run time.

1. Find the Program Launcher display in the application Explorer and double-click to open it.

The Program Launcher display opens:

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 New to FactoryTalk View ME v6.0, the ActiveX controls are installed and registered for you. There is
no need to have to register these controls manually.

2. With the Program Launcher display open, click Object Explorer on the View menu.

The Object Explorer is opened. Group 4 includes the push button control and the Program Launcher
control for opening a .PDF file with the Foxit PDF Viewer. Expand Group 4 and double-click
MEProgramLauncher4 to open the Properties dialog for the Program Launcher control.

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3. Click the Connections tab. The following are the available properties for the Program Launcher
control:

ProgramLocation – This is the complete path and filename of the EXE program you wish to
execute (ex. "ctlpnl.exe"). This property can be a string or a string tag. This property cannot be
empty and is not optional.

ProgramParameter – Some programs require a parameter to be typed at the command line (ex.
"\Windows\cplmain.cpl,5"). This property is used with the ProgramLocation. This property can be a
string or a string tag. This property is optional.

FocusEnable – While another program is running, the FactoryTalk View ME project may not be
visible if it is in the background and/or minimized. This property will restore the FactoryTalk View
ME project and bring it to the foreground of Win32 or Win CE. This property is triggered on a zero-
to-one transition. This is a BOOL (i.e. Digital) property and is optional.

LaunchEnable – Although the ActiveX control is a button, you may want to trigger it from a tag
instead. This property will trigger the ActiveX control when the assigned tag goes from a zero to
non-zero transition. This is a BOOL (i.e. Digital) property and is optional.

NewInstance - This property defines what to do if the specified program (ProgramLocation) is
already running. Set this property to 0 to restore the already running program. Set this property to 1
to open a new instance of the program (if the program supports this). This is a digital property and
is not optional if launching multiples of the same application.
Below is a snapshot of the properties of this specific Program Launcher ActiveX Control configured in
FactoryTalk View Studio. Notice the “ProgramLocation” property is set to a tag called
“FoxItProgramLocation”. This tag contains the path name of the new Foxit .PDF viewer’s executable
on the PanelView terminal. The “ProgramParameter” property is set to a tag “FoxItFileLocation”,
which contains the path name (on the PanelView terminal) of the .PDF file to open. These two
properties can also accept the path directly; you can see that configuration on one of the other
Program Launcher controls. Finally, the “LaunchEnable” property is set to the tag associated with
the pre-configured push button. A new instance of the Program Launcher ActiveX will be needed
every time a different executable or parameter needs to be launched. This is a typical property set up
of the Program Launcher ActiveX control. For more technical information regarding these properties,
please refer to answer ID 20474 in the Rockwell Automation Knowledgebase.

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 Each button on the Program Launcher display has its own Program Launcher ActiveX object, with
different property configurations on its Connections tab to open the corresponding .EXE.

4. Now that you have seen how the Foxit Reader is launched with the Program Launcher ActiveX
control, open the properties for each of the other Program Launcher controls on the display and look
at how they call up the different applications.

5. When you are finished looking at the Program Launcher controls’ settings, you need to create a run
time file to download to your PanelView terminal. Before you do that, you need to change the startup
display in the application. Double-click Startup in the application Explorer, check the Initial graphic
checkbox if it isn’t selected already and select 1 Overview as the Initial graphic. Click OK when you
are done.

6. Click Create Runtime Application on the Application menu to create the run time .MER file.

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7. Make sure the file is named InstantFizz Advanced.mer and the Runtime 6.0 application type is
selected, then click Save.

Click Yes if asked if you want to overwrite the existing file. Select English as the initial runtime
language and click Finish.
The run time file is created. It will take a minute or two to compile the application and generate the
.MER file.

8. When it is finished, click the Transfer Utility button on the FactoryTalk View Studio toolbar:

9. Click the browse button for the Source file and select: C:\Documents and Settings\All
Users\Documents\RSView Enterprise\ME\Runtime\InstantFizz Advanced.mer.

10. In the bottom pane, select your PanelView Plus terminal as the destination. The Transfer Utility
should look something like this:

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 Your terminal may look slightly different – look for the PanelView Plus terminal with the IP address of
192.168.1.20.

11. Click Download to download the project to the terminal. If you are asked if you want to overwrite the
destination file, click Yes. You will see a progress bar, and when the download is complete a
message box will tell you the download completed successfully. Click OK.

12. Click Exit to close the Transfer Utility.

Using the Program Launcher on a terminal

1. Move over to your PanelView Plus terminal. If FTView ME Station is not already running, start it by

double-tapping the icon on the desktop:

2. Tap Load Application [F1]. Select InstantFizz Advanced.mer in the file list, then tap Load [F2].

3. Tap Yes to replace the communications setup. When the application is loaded successfully, you will
see the file name in the Current application box. Tap Run Application [F2] to run your project.

4. Tap the Extended Capabilities Lab button on the Overview display, then the Program Launcher
ActiveX Display button. Try each of the Program Launcher buttons to see how they work at run time.
Feel free to work with the Foxit .PDF Reader and try its new features.

5. Tap Exit to close the application when you are finished.

Congratulations!! You have successfully used the Program Launcher ActiveX control with the new Foxit
file viewer to view a .PDF file as well as opened files in Word and Excel viewers, a media player, or
Internet Explorer.

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Recipe Management (15 minutes)
Completing this section requires approximately 15 minutes.

Why do you need to use recipes?

A recipe is a set of numeric and string data values (ingredients) that can be downloaded /uploaded to
their associated tags in a controller. Each ingredient has a pre-set data value assigned to it.

The set of data values for all the ingredients in a recipe is called a data set.

The set of numeric and string tags assigned to the ingredients in the recipe is called a tag set.

The ingredients, data sets, and tag sets are stored together in a recipe file.

You can create different pairs of data sets and tag sets for the same set of ingredients. Each pairing of
data set with tag set is called a unit. Each unit is like a unique recipe.

At run time, the operator can select the unit (recipe) that applies to the current operation.

For example: A factory making soda could use the same ingredients and tag sets (tags in the controller),
but depending on the flavor desired, could use different data sets to specify to use of certain flavor
extracts. As another example, you might want to have multiple blending lines making the same soda. In
this case, the data set for all the production lines will be the same, but the tags receiving the recipe
information would be different for each production line. Units allow you to combine different tag sets and
data sets for the same set of ingredients.

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 RECIPE

Ingredients: Type Min Max

Water Numeric 100 800
Syrup Numeric 10 100
Flavor Extracts String

Data set: Blueberry Unit: Line1_Blueberry Tag set: Line1

Water: 200 Water: PLC1: BlendingL1.water
Syrup: 40 Syrup: PLC1: BlendingL1.Syrup
Flavor extract: Blueberry Flavor extr.: PLC1:BlendingL1.FlExt
Unit: Line2_Blueberry

Data set: Grapefruit Tag set: Line2

Water: 200 Unit: Line2_Grapefruit Water: PLC2: BlendingL2.water
Syrup: 60 Syrup: PLC2: BlendingL2.Syrup
Flavor extract: Grapefruit Flavor extr.: PLC2:BlendingL2.FlExt
Unit: Line3_Grapefruit

Data set: Kiwi Tag set: Line3

Water: 200 Water: PLC2: BlendingL3.water
Syrup: 70 Unit: Line3_Kiwi Syrup: PLC2: BlendingL3.Syrup
Flavor extract: Kiwi Flavor extr.: PLC2:BlendingL3.FlExt

DATA SET UNIT TAG SET

As you can see in this example there are 3 production lines. Line 1 is using its own Controller (PLC1),
Line 2 and 3 are using the same controller (PLC2) but different tags. Each line has its own set of tags
which are grouped in a Tag Set. Each tag in the tag set is linked to an ingredient.

In the recipe there are 3 different Data sets of soda flavors: Blueberry, Grapefruit and Kiwi.

Every data type within the data set is linked to an ingredient.

These three data sets can be used by all the production lines because we use a Unit to combine a Tag
Set and a Data Set

The FactoryTalk® View RecipePlus system overview :

Each recipe file can contain:
− 15,000 ingredients

− 500 data sets

− 50 tag sets

− 2,500 units (Combination of the data sets and tag sets)

When using 1 production line (1 tag set) the maximum number of units is 500.

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Your factory is currently running 3 different types of Soda drinks. The sales of the Grapefruit soda are
going so well they want a separate blending line to make this soda drink.

The company has invested in a new blending line but they want to re-use the recipe from the original
blending line.

In this section you will:

Import and modify recipe models and understand the principles of Recipes.

Review a recipe screen using the standard Recipe Plus components.

Open the InstantFizz Advanced application

If you already have the InstantFizz Advanced application open from a previous section, you can move on
to the next section, Error! Reference source not found..

1. To open FactoryTalk View Studio, click Start > All Programs > Rockwell Software > FactoryTalk
View > FactoryTalk View Studio. If FactoryTalk View Studio is already open, then select File >
Open Application… to switch applications.

2. Select the existing InstantFizz Advanced application, make sure English is selected for the
Language, and click Open:

3. If you are switching applications you will be prompted to close the currently open application, click the
Yes button to proceed.

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Importing RecipePlus tags
Recipes have two tag settings that are used to determine the results of various recipe operations during
run time.

The first tag is called the Status Tag and it shows the results of download, upload, upload and create,
delete, rename, restore and save operations. The result status of these operations can be ‘start’,
‘successful’ or ‘with errors’.

The second tag is called the Percent Complete Tag. The recipe system writes to this tag during any
recipe operation to show what percent of ingredients currently being processed have been completed.

Before we can have a look at these tags we are going to import them.

1. From the Tools menu select the Tag Import and Export Wizard… option.

2. Select Import FactoryTalk View tag CSV files from the drop down list and click Next .

3. To the right of the Project field, select the browse button .

4. Double click the folder InstantFizz Advanced and select InstantFizz Advanced.MED.

5. Click Next , you just selected which ME application you want to import the tags to.

6. Click on browse button , now you are going to select the file that contains the tags that you are
going to import. The file is located at: C:\Lab Files\ViewME – ViewPoint\ViewME\Pick and Choose.

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7. Select the Recipe_Tags.csv file and click .

8. Once the CSV file has been selected click Next.

9. You will be presented with an import options dialog. In this case you can just leave it as default and
click Next.

Skip existing - Means that tags in the import file that are also in the database will not be imported

Update existing - Means that the duplicate tags in the database will be updated with the info from the
import file.

Important : The import wizard will not delete any tags. If you want the remove tags you need to do that in the
tag database builder itself.

10. You will be presented with an overview of the source and destination files. Click Finish to import the
tags into the application.

11. You will see a dialog box showing the status of the import; click the X in the upper right corner of this
dialog to close it.

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Checking the imported recipe tags
Now you can go and verify the tags that you imported.

1. Go to the folder, expand it and double click on .

2. As you can see the 2 tags have been created for you.

Status tag
The status tag shows the results of recipe download and upload operations. The following table indicates
the value of the status tag (in hexadecimal) when certain operations are performed:

Operation Start Successful With Errors

Download 0x01 0x02 0x04

Upload 0x011 0x012 0x014

Upload and Create 0x021 0x022 0x024

Delete 0x041 0x042 0x044

Rename 0x081 0x082 0x084

Restore 0x101 0x102 0x104

Save 0x201 0x202 0x204

Percent complete tag

The recipe system writes to this tag during any recipe operation to show what percentage of ingredients
currently being processed have been completed.

Configuring the RecipePlus components

The RecipePlus feature allows users to read or write a set of values to a set of tags in a single operation.
RecipePlus can also be used to compare two recipes to determine their differences.

The RecipePlus feature consists of several components:

RecipePlus Setup – used to specify whether recipe files will be a part of the HMI project, and where the
files will be stored for retrieval at run time.
RecipePlus Editor – used to create and edit the recipe files by specifying the ingredients of the recipe,
the data sets, the tag sets and the recipe units. The editor can also be used to compare data sets and tag
sets within a single recipe.

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RecipePlus table object – used to display, modify and save the contents of a recipe at run time. The
table also shows the differences between the recipe data values and the tags associated with the recipe
(i.e. data set and tag set).
RecipePlus button object – used to initiate recipe operations at run time (i.e. download, upload, upload
and create, save, restore, delete and rename).
RecipePlus selector object – used to select from a list of created recipes.

Importing the Recipe into your application

Since we are starting from an existing Blending Line we are going to import the recipe file.

1. Right mouse click on RecipePlus Editor and select Add Component Into application….

2. Navigate to the C:\Lab Files\FTViewME – ViewPoint – PVP Pro\ViewME\Pick and Choose folder.

3. Select the Soda recipe.rpp file and click Open.

The recipe has now been imported into the application.

Setting up RecipePlus

1. Under select .

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2. Make sure that the Recipe files are part of the HMI project radio button is selected.

At run time, recipe files can either be a part of the HMI project, or can be stored in some other location. Use
the RecipePlus Setup dialog to specify where the recipe files will be located at run time.

At design time, only recipe files that are within the HMI project can be edited.
Important: If you choose to store the recipe files outside of the HMI project at run time, you must move the
files manually from within the HMI project to the desired location before running the application.
Recipe file location

Recipe files are part of the HMI project

Select this radio button if recipe files will be part of the HMI project at run time. Recipe files appear under the
RecipePlus editor node in the Application Explorer. The recipe folder in the HMI project will be named
RecipePlus.

When this option is selected, all of the recipe files in the HMI project will be included in the ME runtime
application (*.mer). This is the default behavior.

Recipe files are NOT part of the HMI project

Select this radio button to specify an alternative location for recipe files at run time.

Click the browse button to browse to the desired location. At run time, the recipe system will look for recipe
files in this folder rather than in the HMI project recipe folder.

When this option is selected, none of the recipe files in the HMI project or in the specified folder will be
included in the ME runtime application.

3. Click to close this screen.

Adding a TagSet to a Recipe

1. Under double click . This is the recipe file you just imported.

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2. You will see the General tab as shown below.

General Tab:

Runtime recipe name

Type a unique, user-friendly name for the recipe file. This is the name the recipe selector will use at run
time.
Status tag

Click the browse button to open the Tag Browser and specify a tag to be used as the status tag.
Percent complete tag

Click the browse button to open the Tag Browser and specify a tag to be used as the percent complete tag.

The Status tag and Percent complete tag are not filled in.

3. Click the browse button to the right of the Status Tag field.
This will open the tag browser, highlight the InstantFizz Advanced folder and select the StatusTag,
click OK.

4. Repeat step 3 above for the Percentage Complete Tag field and this time select the
PercentCompleteTag tag.

5. Click on the Ingredients tab.

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General Tab:

Ingredient

Type the name of the ingredient. Examples might be Sugar, Nitric acid, Secret sauce, 55mm carriage bolts,
2x4 oak, etc.
Type

Specify whether the data value should be interpreted as a number or a string.

If the type is Number, the value, if present, must be a valid integer or floating point number.

If the type is String, the value, if present, can be any string. The Min and Max properties do not apply.
Min

If the ingredient type is Number, type the smallest value that can be written to the tag when the recipe is
downloaded or the ingredient is edited in the table at run time.

The possible range is -1.797693E+308 to 1.797693E+308.

Max

If the ingredient type is Number, type the largest value that can be written to the tag when the recipe is
downloaded or the ingredient is edited in the table at run time.

The possible range is -1.797693E+308 to 1.797693E+308.

Data Set

When a new recipe file is created, one data set is created, and named Data Set 1. To rename or delete this
data set, or to insert a new data set, click the Recipe menu at the top of the FactoryTalk View Studio frame.
Data set names can have a maximum of 31 characters.

In the row for each ingredient, type the data value in the cell of the data set column.
Tag Set

When a new recipe file is created, one tag set is created, and named Tag Set 1. To rename or delete this
tag set, or to insert a new tag set, click the Recipe menu at the top of the FactoryTalk View Studio frame.
Tag set names can have a maximum of 31 characters.
In the row for each ingredient, insert the tag name associated with the data value in the cell of the tag set
column. You can type the tag names or select tags from the Tag Browser.

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This is a list of all the ingredients that are needed to create Blueberry, grapefruit, kiwi or mango. As you
can see we only have 1 tag set which is called Tag Set 1.

6. If you click on the Units you will see that the units are all linked to the Tag Set 1. Now go back to the
Ingredients tab.

7. Select the Recipe menu option located between Edit and View.

8. In the pull down menu select Rename Tag Set…

9. Enter ‘Blending Line 1’ in the Enter new tag set name: field for Tag Set 1.

10. Click OK to close the Rename Tag Set dialog.

11. If you now click on Units tab you will see that the tag set of the units is also modified. Select the
Ingredients tab again.

12. In the Recipe pull down menu select Insert Tag Set….

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13. Enter ‘Blending Line 2’ in the Enter the name of the new tag set: field.

14. Click OK.

15. For this new Blending Line 2 we need to fill in the associated tags using the tag browser

16. To open the Tag Browser, select the top cell under the (Tag Set) Blending Line 2 column heading,
right-click in the cell and select Tag Browser, or select Tag Browser from the Edit menu.

You will need to change the column widths using the mouse in order to see the last column.

17. Fill in the tags for the Blending Line 2 as shown below:
Water {::[PLC1]Program:BlendingL2.Recipe.Water}
Syrup {::[PLC1]Program:BlendingL2.Recipe.Syrup}
Acid {::[PLC1]Program:BlendingL2.Recipe.Acid}
Carbon Dioxide {::[PLC1]Program:BlendingL2.Recipe.CarbonDioxide}
Coloring {::[PLC1]Program:FillerD.ProductColor}

18. Expand Recipe and select the Flavor folder in the left hand pane of the tag browser for the Flavor
ingredient tag.

19. Select Flavor and click OK. Your Tag Set 2 column should look like this:

In this case we are using the same controller but a different routine in the controller for the second
blending line. The tag set could also come from a different controller.

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18. Now select the Units tab.

Units Tab:

Use the Units tab to pair tag sets with data sets to create recipe units.
When a new recipe is created, a new recipe unit with the default name of Unit 1 is created, pairing the
default data set Data Set 1 and the default tag set Tag Set 1.
Click on a unit name to select it. You can then edit the selected unit, delete the selected unit, or insert a new
unit at the bottom of the list.
Unit name

Click on a unit name to select the unit. The Data Set and Tag Set are automatically selected as part of the
unit.

Insert

Click this button to open the Insert Unit dialog.

Edit

Click this button to open the Edit Unit dialog.

Delete

Click this button to delete the selected unit.

In this lab, Blending Line 1 is making four different soda drinks Blueberry, Grapefruit, Kiwi and Mango.
Now you will create another unit for Line 2 using the Grapefruit dataset.

19. Select Insert and enter ‘Grapefruit Line 2’ in the Unit name field, use the drop down
list buttons and select Grapefruit and Blending Line 2 as shown below.

20. Select OK to close the Unit dialog.

21. Select Close in the RecipePlus Editor, and select Yes to save the recipe.

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Now the unit is created so that it can re-use all the values used in the original line recipe for Grapefruit on
the new Blending Line 2.

View the existing recipe display

1. In the application Explorer, expand Graphics and Displays, then double-click on the 3A Filling -
Recipes display to open it:

All of these objects have been configured for you and your display should look like:

The 3A Filling – Recipes display has been configured for you and is where at run time you can
upload and download recipes, or lists of ingredients, view recipe contents, and select recipes to use.

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2. Double-click on the RecipePlus Selector object near the top of the display to view its configuration.

This object allows you to select a recipe file and unit to be acted upon using the RecipePlus buttons
described later on.

3. Click Cancel when finished.

4. Double-click on the RecipePlus Table object in the middle of the display to view its configuration.

This object is used to display and edit recipes during runtime.

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5. Click Cancel when finished.

6. Double-click on the Download button in the bottom left hand corner of the display to view its
configuration.

The RecipePlus buttons can be defined for any of the RecipePlus actions: Download, Upload,
Upload and Create, Restore, Save, Delete and Rename.

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7. Click Cancel when finished.

8. Double-click Startup in the application Explorer to configure startup options, check the Initial graphic
checkbox if it isn’t selected already and verify that 1 Overview is selected as the Initial graphic:

9. Click OK to accept your changes.

10. Make sure that you don’t have the project running from a previous section. If you do, click Shutdown
or Exit to close it.

Testing the application

To test the application you will use FactoryTalk Studio for Machine Edition’s Test Application function.
You can use the PanelView Plus, however, these instructions use Test Application.

1. From the Application menu, select the Test

Application item.

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2. On the Select Languages dialog, make
sure that English is selected as the initial
runtime application language and click
Finish.

3. Click the Finish button to build the

runtime application file.

While the system builds the runtime MER, a

progress dialog is displayed.

When the runtime MER file is built, the system loads the runtime MER in to an emulation mode. The
application will appear in the upper left-hand corner of the computer display.

4. If you did not complete the Working With Security section, skip to Step 5. If you have, you will
need to log in with proper credentials.

Click on Security , then Log In and use the credentials of user name ‘Operator’,
password ‘Operator’.

5. Click the Recipes button to open the display.

6. Use the different RecipePlus objects to upload and download recipes, view lists of ingredients or
recipe contents, and select recipes to use.

7. Exit the application when you are finished.

Congratulations!! You have successfully configured RecipePlus and used RecipePlus objects on a
display.

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Working with security (15 minutes)
Completing this section requires approximately 15 minutes.

FactoryTalk View ME user accounts work with security codes to determine whether a user gets access to
the system at run time. Each display in a project is assigned a security code. Users are also assigned
security codes. At runtime, if a user is assigned access to the security code for a particular display they
are allowed to access the display.

When you set up security in FactoryTalk View ME, user accounts are stored in the FactoryTalk Directory.
This means that those same user accounts can be used not only with the FactoryTalk View ME
application, but with any other FactoryTalk-enabled software running on the same computer. You can add
a FactoryTalk user account that is separate from a user’s Windows account, or a Windows-linked user
account that inherits all the operating system user settings.

FactoryTalk View ME security allows you to assign any one of 16 security codes (A-P), or an asterisk (*)
to your displays. Users are also assigned security codes, and if a user’s assigned security codes match
the code assigned to a display, they are allowed access to the display. All users are allowed access to
displays with the asterisk for the security code. By default, new users have all 16 security codes assigned
to them. The Default user also has all 16 security codes assigned. The Default user account is used
when no user is logged on.

In this section you will:

Add a User and grant permissions to the 3A Filling – Recipes display

Create and apply security to a User Group.

Open the InstantFizz Advanced application

If you already have the InstantFizz Advanced application open from a previous section, you can move
on to the next section, View the security code for a display.

1. To open FactoryTalk View Studio, click Start > All Programs > Rockwell Software > FactoryTalk
View > FactoryTalk View Studio. If FactoryTalk View Studio is already open, then select File >
Open Application… to switch applications.

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2. Select the existing InstantFizz Advanced application, make sure English is selected for the
Language, and click Open:

3. If you are switching applications you will be prompted to close the currently open application, click the
Yes button to proceed.

View the security code for a display

1. In the application Explorer, expand Graphics and Displays, then double-click on the 3A Filling -
Recipes display to open it:

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 The display is opened:

The 3A Filling – Recipes display is where at run time you can upload and download recipes, or lists
of ingredients, view recipe contents, and select recipes to use.

2. Select Display Settings on the Edit menu. The Display Settings editor for the 3A Filling – Recipes
display is opened:

The Display Settings editor is where you can specify a security code for a display. Note that the 3A
Filling - Recipes display is assigned Security Code A. Click Cancel to close the dialog.

Create a new user account and assign security codes

1. Since the display has a security code of A, you will now create a new user account called “Operator”
that is assigned the same security code. Double-click Runtime Security in the application Explorer to
launch the Runtime Security editor:

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2. As mentioned earlier, the Default user has all 16 codes assigned by default. First remove security
code A from the Default user so that only users assigned security code A can access the 3A Filling –
Recipes display. Select the Default user and click to uncheck the checkbox for security code A as
shown below. You then need to click Accept to apply the change.

Note that on this screen and in the steps below, you may see different users or user groups from
what is shown.

3. Click the Add button to add a new user account. The Select User or Group dialog is
shown; select Show users only:

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4. Click Create New and select User:

5. On the General tab, enter ‘Operator’ as the User name. Check Password never expires. Enter
‘Operator’ as the Password and confirm it in the Confirm box.

6. Click OK to add your new user. The Operator user should now show up in the list on the Select User
or Group dialog.

7. Select the Operator user account and click OK. The user is added to the Runtime Security user
account list. Because new users by default are granted access to all 16 security codes, the Operator
user is already assigned the security code A. This is what you want, so leave the security settings as
they are.

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8. Click Close to close the Runtime Security editor. Click Yes when you are asked if you want to save
the changes:

You have now created a new user and configured security for it. Remember that you will need to login to
the application as user Operator from now on when running the application if you want to access the 3A
Filling – Recipes display.

Exercise security
The following steps show you how to log in as user Operator when the application is running. Try
accessing the 3A Filling – Recipes display before and after you log in as Operator to observe what
happens when you do not have rights to a display. Remember that the password for the Operator user is
‘Operator’.

1. Double-click Startup on the application Explorer to configure startup options, check the Initial
graphic checkbox if it isn’t selected already and verify that 1 Overview is selected as the Initial
graphic:

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2. Click OK to accept your changes.

3. Make sure that you don’t have the project running from the previous section. If you do, click Exit to
close it.

4. On the Application menu, click Test Application.

5. Select English as the initial runtime language and click Finish.

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 The runtime file is created. You will see progress bars while it is compiled, and when it is complete
the application will run. It will take a couple minutes.

6. When the application starts, the Overview screen is shown, and you can see that the logged in user is
‘DEFAULT’:

7. Because you are logged in as Default, you should not have security rights to the 3A - Filling Recipes
display that you configured security for. (Remember that the display is assigned security code “A”,
and the Default user does not have access rights to “A”.) Click the Recipes button to see what
happens:

You should see an error saying access is denied because the currently logged in user does not have
security access to the display. You can click Close to close the error display.

8. Now you will log in as the Operator user you created, and who does have security access to the 3A –
Filling Recipes display. Click the Security button on the bottom toolbar.

9. A second toolbar is displayed. Click Log In:

The Login display is opened. Click the User (F2) button and use the keyboard to enter ‘Operator’.
Click the Password (F3) button and enter ‘Operator’ for the password. It should look like this:

Click the enter button to log in.

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10. Click Close to close the Security menu.

11. Now click the Recipes button to see what happens.

The recipes screen is opened, because as the Operator user you have security access rights!
NOTE: You may see errors that an item is no longer available if the Recipe Management section
has not yet been completed. You will notice that the Operator user successfully opened this display
however, the recipe objects are blank.

12. Click the Close button to close the recipes display.

13. Click Exit to close the running application.

Using security groups

Just as you assign security rights to a user account, you can also create user groups, include users in
those groups, and assign security rights to the group as a whole. Any security rights that are applied to
the group will apply to each user account in the group.

In this section you will add user accounts to a group and configure security for the group.

1. Double-click Runtime Security in the application Explorer to launch the Runtime Security editor:

2. Click the Add button to create a new user group:

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3. Click Create New, then User group to create a new group.

4. On the New User Group dialog, enter ‘Managers’ for the group Name.
Click Add to add users to the new group:

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5. Click Show users only to see the list of configured users. Hold down the Ctrl key and click the
PlantManager and ShiftManager users to select them.

6. Click OK to add the users to your group. They should show up in the New User Group dialog in the
Members list:

7. Click OK to create the new user group with group members PlantManager and ShiftManager. The
Select User or Group dialog will list your new group:

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8. Select the Managers group and click OK. The Managers group is now ready for you to configure
FactoryTalk View ME security:

You can tell a group from a user in the Runtime Security list by the square brackets around a group
name.

You cannot manage users and groups, other than creating a new user or group, from the FactoryTalk View
Studio Runtime Security editor. If you want to add users to an existing group or delete users you must use
the FactoryTalk Administration Console or the Users and Groups editor found in the SYSTEM area of the
FactoryTalk View Studio application Explorer.

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9. Select the [Managers] group in the Account list. Because it is a new group, it has access rights to all
of the A-Z security codes. Leave the account rights as they are.
User groups are highly recommended because they allow you to simplify the configuration of security
rights. With user groups you can create groups for the different types of users (for example,
“maintenance” or “operators”), add a particular user to the appropriate user group, and configure
security rights for all users in that group at once, rather than having to configure rights individually.
Because you allowed the Managers group security rights to displays with security code A, both the
PlantManager and the ShiftManager user will be able to access any displays assigned code A.

10. Click the Close button to close the runtime security editor. Click Yes to save your changes.

When you backup a FactoryTalk View ME project to an .APA file, the users you have created in the
FactoryTalk Directory and configured security for are backed up along with the displays and other project
data. When you restore the application, you are asked whether you want to restore the FactoryTalk Local
Directory. If you answer “Yes”, the backed up FactoryTalk Local Directory is restored to the new
FactoryTalk Directory, and overwrites the Local FactoryTalk Directory on the machine. If you answer “No”
and do not restore the backed up FactoryTalk Directory to the new PC, you will see that in the Runtime
Security editor, the usernames are listed in CLSID format, which is an alphanumeric display. If you have
done this, refer to Answer ID 38817 in the Rockwell Automation technical support database for an
explanation and workaround.

Testing the application on desktop

1. Click Test Application on the Application menu to compile and run it.

2. Click on Recipes to access this display. Because you are automatically logged in as Default,
you should not have security rights to the 3A - Filling Recipes display that you configured security
for.
You should see an error saying access is denied because the currently logged in user does not have
security access to the display. You can click Close to close the error display.

3. Click on Security , then Log In to enter the credentials of any of the Users that were
added to the Managers User Group.
Note that the user passwords are the same as the login; for example, the ShiftManager user has a
password of ‘ShiftManager’.

4. Click on Recipes to access this display once again and you should now have access since
the ShiftManager and PlantManager users were given security rights under the Managers group.

5. Click Exit to close the running application when you are done.

Congratulations!! You have successfully created a User and User Group, assigned security codes to
them and tested the functionality of security in your application.

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Additional Alarming Features (20 minutes)
Completing this section requires approximately 20 minutes.

By default, the Alarm Banner only shows the operator the most current alarm. This is not always a good
fit for an application. The Alarm Banner has additional capability to queue incoming alarms while an
unacknowledged alarm is being displayed. Once the operator acknowledges the first alarm, the
subsequent alarms must be acknowledged in turn. While this provides more capability, it still may not
meet an application’s needs. The final alarm capability is an Alarm History object that displays multiple
alarms in different states.

In this section, you will configure the Alarm Banner to queue incoming alarms and add an Alarm History
display to the application you have built.

In this section you will:

Configure the Alarm Banner to queue incoming alarms.

Add and configure an Alarm History object.

Exercise the Alarm History on a PanelView Plus terminal.

Open the application

Chapter 2 had you create a simple alarm system using the default Alarm display and Alarm Banner
object. An application called Chapter2_Complete is available for you. Follow the steps below to open
the application.

1. To open FactoryTalk View Studio, click Start > All Programs > Rockwell Software > FactoryTalk
View > FactoryTalk View Studio. If FactoryTalk View Studio is already open, then select File >
Open Application… to switch applications.

2. Select the existing Chapter2_Complete application, make sure English is selected for the
Language, and click Open:

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3. If you are switching applications you will be prompted to close the currently open application, click the
Yes button to proceed.

Adding an Alarm Summary

1. Double-click on the [ALARM] display in the Displays container to open it.

2. Double-click the Alarm Banner object to open its properties dialog

3. Click on the Alarm tab in the Alarm Banner Properties dialog to activate.

4. Enable the Queue new alarms option by clicking in its checkbox.

5. Click the OK button to complete the Alarm Banner configuration.

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6. Close the [Alarm] display; click Yes button when prompted.

You will next use another FactoryTalk Studio for Machine Edition capability to add existing content in an
application. In addition to XML file import/export, application graphics can be reused between
applications. FactoryTalk Studio for Machine Edition includes several useful graphics for alarms,
diagnostics and information display.

7. Right-click the Displays item in the Project Explorer and select the Add Component Into
Application item.

This opens the Add Component Into Project dialog.

8. Navigate to the C:\Lab Files\ViewME - ViewPoint\ViewME\Pick and Choose folder

9. Double-click on the [L15 History] 640x480.gfx file to select it, and close the dialog.
The system begins adding the selected display to
the current application. The following Migrating
Data dialog displays while this operation occurs.

When complete the dialog closes. The Displays

container in the Project Explorer updates to
display the newly added display.

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10. Double-click the [L15 History] 640x480 to view.

There are no changes required on this display.

11. Close the [L15 History] 640x480 display.

12. Double-click the Main display to open.

13. Select the Goto object from the Objects > Display Navigation menu.

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14. Find an empty area on the Main display;
click and hold while dragging downward
and to the right to create a Goto Display
button.

15. Double-click the Goto Display button to

open its properties dialog.

16. On the General tab find the Display:

textbox and click the Browse button .
This opens the Component Browser
dialog.

17. Select the [L15 HISTORY] 640x480 item.

18. Click the OK button to complete

the selection.

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19. Click the Apply button to commit the
change.

20. Click the Label tab to activate it.

21. Enter ‘Alarm Summary’ in the Caption field.

22. Click the Apply button to commit the caption change.

23. Click on the Common tab to activate it.

24. Change the Height, Width, Top, and Left fields to size and position the Goto Display Button
Properties exactly.
Height 68
Width 104
Top 400
Left 130

This change will position the button from the location you drew it on the display to match the position
and size of the other navigation buttons at the bottom of the Main display.

25. Click the OK button to commit the change and close the dialog.

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 The Main display now should look something like this.

26. Close the Main display; click the Yes button to save your changes when prompted.

Testing the Alarm Summary

To test the new AlarmSummary navigation button and changes to the Alarm Banner you need to create
a runtime MER and download to a PanelView Plus terminal.

1. Select Create Runtime Application from the Application menu.

2. Use the default file name of Chapter2_Complete.mer and verify that the Save as type field is set to
Runtime 6.0 Application (*.mer).

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3. Click the Save button to begin runtime application creation.

4. After a few moments a progress dialog, Creating runtime file, will appear. This dialog lets you
monitor the creation process.

When the runtime application is completed, the dialog will close automatically.

5. To download the runtime MER to the PanelView Plus 1000 terminal at your workstation, first, select
the Tools > Transfer Utility menu item

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 The Transfer Utility will open.

6. Click the Source File browse button to select the runtime MER file to download.

This opens the Select File to Download dialog.

7. Double-click the Chapter2_Complete.mer file to select the runtime application and close the dialog.

8. Double-click the EtherNet, Ethernet driver to expand the item.

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9. Select the 192.168.1.20, PanelView Plus CE_6 1000, PanelView Plus CE_6 1000 item by clicking
on it once.

10. To initiate the download process, click the Download button

During the download, a progress dialog will update.

When the download process completes a confirmation dialog is shown.

11. Click the OK button to acknowledge the dialog.

12. Click the Exit button to close the Transfer Utility.

Execute the following steps to run the downloaded runtime application Chapter2_Complete.mer

13. Move over to your PanelView Plus terminal. If FTView ME Station is not already running, start it by

double-tapping the icon on the desktop:

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14. Press the Load Application [F1] button.

15. Select the Chapter2_Complete.MER file from those available from the terminal’s Internal Storage.

16. Press Load [F2] to load the runtime file in to memory.

17. When prompted, press Yes [F7] to overwrite the terminal’s current communication configuration with
the configuration contained within the L15.MER file.

18. Once successfully loaded, press the Run Application [F2] to start executing the runtime file.

While the terminal is starting the application, an update dialog is displayed.

After the start-up processing completes you should see your applications initial display, similar to the
one below:

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To observe the differences in the Alarm Banner configuration and the new Alarm Summary, execute the
following steps:

19. Tap the Start Process button , if the process is not already running. If the process is
running the button caption reads ‘Stop Process’ and the button color is red.

20. Tap the Flow Rate button and enter a value of ‘15’ and press Enter.

21. Tap the Start button.

The pump will fill with a green shaded fill to show that the pump is running. After about 10 seconds
an alarm ‘Tank 1 Low Flow Rate’ will occur.

22. Tap the Close [F4] button to close the Alarm Banner without acknowledging the alarm.

23. Quickly, Tap the Flow Rate button, enter a value of ‘245’, and press Enter.
After about ten seconds an alarm ‘Tank 1 Flow Obstructed’ will occur.
After approximately another ten seconds a new alarm ‘Tank 1 High Flow Rate’ will occur but you will
only be able to see this next alarm after you Clear the previous alarm since the Alarm Banner is now
configured to queue alarms.

24. Tap the Clear Alarm [F3] button for the ‘Tank 1 Flow Obstructed’ alarm.

25. Now, the ‘Tank 1 High Flow Rate’ alarm is visible and can be acknowledged by tapping
Acknowledge [F1].

26. Tap the Close [F4] button to dismiss the Alarm Banner without acknowledging the alarm.

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27. Tap the Flow Rate button, enter a value of ‘100’, and select Enter.
This returns the flow rate to a level that will not generate additional alarms.

28. Tap the Alarm Summary button to open alarm summary display

On the display, you can observe, at minimum, the last three alarm conditions that occurred.

You can use the Up and Down buttons to move among the items in the Alarm History.

29. Highlight the remaining unacknowledged alarms and tap the Ack Alarm button .

30. Tap the Close button to close the Alarm History display.

31. Tap the Stop Process button on the Main display.

32. Tap the Shutdown button to terminate the application on the PanelView Plus terminal.

Congratulations!! You have successfully reused an alarm history component in your existing
FactoryTalk View Studio for Machine Edition application, added display navigation, created a runtime file;
and, exercised the application on a PanelView Plus terminal.

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Language Switching (20 minutes)
Completing this section requires approximately 20 minutes.

Language switching is a FactoryTalk View Machine Edition application feature that allows the HMI
designer to create a single runtime application that can display operator information in several different
languages. Consider an OEM that ships the same machine to North America, Germany, Italy, and China;
is it more efficient to design and maintain a single HMI application for the global market, or an application
per country. You will be working with the existing application, InstantFizz Advanced, to help illustrate how
designers implement an HMI application that uses language switching, and how the language switching
works at runtime.

In this section, you will:

Learn how to import and export the application’s text strings for translation

Add Language Switching buttons to the application

Test language switching using the desktop emulator

Open the InstantFizz Advanced application

If you already have the InstantFizz Advanced application open from a previous section, you can move on
to the next section, Configuring the application for multiple languages.

1. To open FactoryTalk View Studio, click Start > All Programs > Rockwell Software > FactoryTalk
View > FactoryTalk View Studio. If FactoryTalk View Studio is already open, then select File >
Open Application… to switch applications.

2. Select the existing InstantFizz Advanced application, make sure English is selected for the
Language, and click Open:

3. If you are switching applications you will be prompted to close the currently open application, click the
Yes button to proceed.

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Configuring the application for multiple languages

1. Using the Tools menu select the Languages… item

This opens the Language Configuration.

2. To add additional language entries in the list, click the Add button . This opens the Add
Language dialog.

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3. In the Language column locate the entry Chinese (PRC); double-click to add to the Language
Configuration dialog.

4. Repeat Steps 2 and 3 to add German (Germany) and Spanish (International Sort) to the
Language Configuration dialog. When you have successfully completed this task the Language
Configuration dialog will look like the example below.

5. Click the OK button to commit the changes.

6. Next, you need to add several

flag images to the application.
To do this right-click the
Images item in the Project
Explorer Graphics folder, and
select the Add component to
application item.

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7. Navigate to the
C:\Lab Files\ViewME -
ViewPoint\ViewME\Pick and
Choose folder.

8. Multi-select the three bitmap

(*.bmp) files located in the
folder.

9. Click the Open button

to add the bitmap files to the
application.

During the addition process, a progress dialog is shown. When completed, the Migrate Data dialog
will close

Please expand the Images item and

verify the bitmap files have been added
to the project.

You may collapse the Images item

when you are done.

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Adding Language Switch Buttons to the Application

1. Expand the Displays item, and open

the display 0B Languages.

2. Using the Objects menu, select the

Advanced > Language Switch
Button item.

3. Draw a small Language Switch Button on the 0B Languages display.

4. Double-click the Language Switch Button to open its properties dialog.

5. On the General tab, change the

Border Style to None, Back
Style to Transparent and the
Language property to Spanish
(International Sort) using the
dropdown.

6. Click the Apply button to

commit the change

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7. Click the Label tab to activate it

8. Enter ‘Spanish’ in the Caption

field, change the Caption color
to Black and select Bold.

9. Also change the Alignment

grid, to center-bottom alignment,
by clicking the radio button
located in the center-bottom.
Be sure to modify the
Alignment grid associated with
the Caption, and not the Image
Settings.

10. Click the Browse button located

by the Image textbox.
This opens the Image Browser
dialog.

11. Select the Flag_of_Spain.bmp

file.

12. Click the OK button to

use the selection.

14. Click the Common tab to

activate it.

15. Change the Size and Position

as follows:
Height 65
Width 60
Top 2
Left 200

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16. Click the OK button to complete the Language Switch Button configuration. The
Language Switch Button should now be located on the display as shown.

To save time in the lab, you will now import two additional Language Switch Buttons from an XML file.

17. Save the 0B Languages display using the toolbar tool , or the File > Save menu command.

18. Close the 0B Languages display.

19. Right-click on the Displays item in the Project Explorer, and select Import and Export…

This opens the Graphic Import Export Wizard dialog

20. Select Import graphic information

into displays item

21. Click the Next button .

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22. There is no need to backup the
display that will be modified during
the import. Select No item, and click
the Next button .

23. Select Single display import file

item, and click the Next button
.

24. You must select the file to be

imported. Click the Browse button
.

This opens a standard Microsoft

Windows File Open dialog.

25. Navigate to the C:/Lab Files/ViewME

- ViewPoint/ViewME/Pick and
Choose folder.

26. Select the file Language Switch buttons (DEU and ZHN).xml

27. Click the Open button .

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28. Using the dropdown Select the
display to import to list, select the
display named 0B Languages.
This is the display, to which the
content must be added.

29. The When importing option should remain unchanged. The default setting Create new objects on
the display adds unique objects to the display during the import operation; it does not overwrite or
update existing objects.

30. Click the Finish button to begin the process.

When the process completes a results file is displayed.

31. Close the results file.

32. Open the 0B Languages display from the Project Explorer.

Two new Language Switch buttons have been added to the display - one for German and one for
Chinese.

33. Close the 0B Languages display.

Exporting HMI Application Strings

The last step in localizing an HMI application is translating the text strings the operator will see at runtime.
The localization process occurs outside the FactoryTalk Studio for Machine Edition application. Few
designers would have the resources to translate their HMI application strings in-house. Most will use an
outside agency to perform the string translation. Thus, the first step in localizing an HMI application is to
export the application strings.
Please note that the localized strings displayed to the operator are only those contained within the HMI
application. If the HMI application is displaying string data contained within a controller tag, those characters
will be shown exactly as they are stored in the control system regardless of the current HMI application
language setting.

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1. Using the Tools menu select the Languages… item

This opens the Language Configuration.

2. Click the Export… button. This opens the next wizard dialog.

3. Select the Export strings for

all languages to an Excel
spreadsheet and check the
Open exported file checkbox
to automatically open the
exported file.

4. Click the Next button

to proceed.

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5. Click the Browse button to
change the default location.

6. Navigate to C:\Lab
Files\ViewME – ViewPoint.

7. Select the ViewME folder.

8. Click the OK button

to use the selection.

9. Click the Finish button

to export the strings.
After a few moments the
String Export in Progress
dialog will appear. This dialog
allows you to monitor the
export.

Depending on how many languages the application is configured for, and the time required to perform
the export, you may also see this dialog.

When the export process completes the progress and information dialog(s) will automatically close
and your exported file will open in Microsoft Office Excel 2007 since we chose that option earlier.

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10. For informational purposes, a snapshot of the opened file appears below. You do not need to any
work in this file. A different file has been prepared that contains all the translated strings.

11. When you are finished viewing the file, close Microsoft Office Excel 2007.

Importing Localized HMI Application Strings

To import the fully translated file execute the following steps.

1. On the Language
Configuration dialog, click
on the Import… button

3. Select the Import strings

from an Excel spreadsheet
into all application
languages defined in the
spreadsheet item.

4. Click the Next button

to proceed.

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5. Click the Browse button
to change the default
location.

6. Navigate to C:\Lab
Files\ViewME - ViewPoint\
ViewME\Pick and Choose
folder.

7. Double-click the
TRANSLATED InstantFizz
Advanced.xls file to select
and close the dialog.
Confirm that you selected the
corrected file TRANSLATED
InstantFizz Advanced.xls.

8. Click the Finish button

to import the strings.
After a few moments the
String Import in Progress
dialog will appear. This
dialog allows you to monitor
the export.

.
When the import process completes, the progress dialog will close automatically close the progress
window. The Status Bar reports “String import completed successfully”. If errors occur a results file
will be automatically opened on your workstation.

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9. Click the OK button to proceed.

10. Double-click Startup in the application Explorer to configure startup options, check the Initial graphic
checkbox if it isn’t selected already and verify that 1 Overview is selected as the Initial graphic:

11. Click OK to accept your changes.

12. Make sure that you don’t have the project running from the previous section. If you do, click
Shutdown or Exit to close it.

Testing the localized application

To test the localized application you will use FactoryTalk Studio for Machine Edition’s Test Application
function. You can use the PanelView Plus, however, these instructions use Test Application.

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1. From the Application menu, select the Test
Application item.

Since the application has been configured to

support multiple languages, your need to
select which languages to include in the
runtime application; a total of twenty can be
selected.

2. Select all six languages.

3. Click the Finish button to build the

runtime application file.

While the system builds the runtime MER, a

progress dialog is displayed.

When the runtime MER file is built, the system loads the runtime MER in to an emulation mode. The
application will appear in the upper left-hand corner of the computer display.

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4. Click the Languages button to open its display.

5. Click on Español to change the application language to Spanish. Note that the caption for
our Spanish button was updated during the import with ‘Español’ to keep consistent with the other
buttons where each caption is displayed in the native language.

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6. Click the Deutsch button to change the language to German.

This application provides a good example of a situation that engineers designing multi-language application
must consider. If you look at the text displayed on and within different objects, you will notice that the space
required varies depending upon the language selected.

Some objects may not be wide enough to contain the characters on a single line. Although the objects are
properly sized for English during development, when translated many text strings require more space as
they contain more characters than the English-version of the same string.

Congratulations!! You have successfully localized your FactoryTalk View Machine Edition application,
added language switching buttons, exported the English language strings, imported the translated strings,
created a runtime file; and tested the application at your workstation.

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Improving productivity with parameter passing (30 minutes)
Completing this section requires approximately 30 minutes.

FactoryTalk View ME allows the use of tag placeholders so that you can create one display that can
represent a number of similar operations, simply by passing in different tag values.

A tag placeholder is used to mark where you want to insert a tag name of some part of a tag name at run
time. A tag placeholder is a crosshatch character (#) followed by a number from 1 to 500.

Tag placeholders are used in FactoryTalk View ME by parameter files. A parameter file is a user-created
text file that lists a number of tag placeholders that can be referenced in the project. The parameter file is
part of a FactoryTalk View ME project.

FactoryTalk View ME also supports the use of parameter lists. A parameter list is a list of tag
placeholders specified for use on a particular display.

Parameter lists can be used in the same components where parameter files can be used:

The graphic display that opens when an application is first run. Specify the graphic display to open,
and the parameter file or parameter list to use with it, in the Startup editor.

Graphic displays that are opened using Goto Display buttons or Display List Selectors. Specify the
graphic display to open, and the parameter file or parameter list to use with it, when you set up the
button or selector.

Global Connections. Parameter files or parameter lists can be used with Remote displays.

Parameters can be carried forward, or passed, to secondary displays that are linked to and open from the
initial display, using either a parameter file or a parameter list. When a graphic display opens at run time,
FactoryTalk View ME substitutes the string specified in the parameter file or the tag(s) specified in the
parameter list for the tag placeholders in the graphic display. The same set of tag placeholders can then
be passed on to a secondary display that is opened from the initial display.

In this section you will:

Look at how Process Faceplates can take advantage of parameter lists to carry tags forward to
subsequent displays.

Open the InstantFizz Advanced application

If you already have the InstantFizz Advanced application open from a previous section, you can move on
to the next section, Add the PIDE faceplates.

1. To open FactoryTalk View Studio, click Start > All Programs > Rockwell Software > FactoryTalk
View > FactoryTalk View Studio. If FactoryTalk View Studio is already open, then select File >
Open Application… to switch applications.

2. Select the existing InstantFizz Advanced application, make sure English is selected for the
Language, and click Open:

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3. If you are switching applications you will be prompted to close the currently open application, click the
Yes button to proceed.

Add the PIDE faceplates

You will use the Enhanced PID Process Faceplates supplied by FactoryTalk View ME to work with carry
forward parameters. These faceplates must be added to the project.

1. In the application Explorer, right-click the InstantFizz Advanced HMI Server and select Add
Process Faceplates:

The Add Process Faceplates dialog is opened.

2. Click Clear All on the Add Process Faceplates dialog:

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3. Click the Enhanced PID – PIDE check box and click OK.

When faceplates are added to a project, displays and global objects are imported that can be used in
the project.

4. The 12 What is new display in the InstantFizz Advanced project contains a Goto display button that
is configured to open the Logix_PIDE display on the startup. Double-click the 12 What is new display
in the application Explorer under Displays to open it:

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5. On the display, double-click the Process Faceplates with Carry Forward Parameters Goto display
button (as shown above). The button’s property dialog is opened. Note the Display and Parameter
list properties:

The display specified by the Display property is the display opened when the Goto display button is
clicked at run time. In this case it is the Logix_PIDE display.
The value for the Parameter list property is:
{::[PLC1]Program:Fermenter_Temp.Tank_PIDE01}
This value is a tag name that is “passed” to the Logix_PIDE display when it is opened. Passed tags
can be referenced on the display.
Click OK to close the property dialog.

Testing the PIDE faceplates

Now you will run the application in test mode and observe how parameter passing works with the PIDE
faceplates. First you must set the initial display graphic.

1. Double-click Startup in the application Explorer to open the startup utility.

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2. For the Initial graphic, select 12 What is new and click OK.

3. On the Application menu, click Test Application.

Verify that only English is checked to include in the runtime application, and that English is selected
as the initial run time language.

4. Click Finish to create the runtime application. The runtime is created, then the application starts
using the initial display you selected:

5. Click the Process Faceplates with Carry Forward Parameters button to open the Logix_PIDE
display.

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6. Click the Operator button to put the PIDE into Operator mode. When it is in Operator mode, the
button will appear disabled (grayed out).

7. Click the SP (Set Point) numeric input, as shown above. The numeric input keypad is displayed:

The keypad can be configured to include helpful information like the tag name and its minimum and
maximum value. We will do this in the next section.

8. Click the ESC (Escape) key to close the keypad.

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Investigate the numeric input configuration
You will now look at how the Process Faceplates are configured to use the parameter passing, numeric
input keypad and global objects.

1. Click the FactoryTalk View Studio item in the Windows taskbar to bring Studio to the front (you can
leave the application running).

2. When you import Process Faceplates, both Global Objects and Displays are brought into the project.
The numeric input object is configured on the Logix_PIDE Global Object.
In the application Explorer tree, double-click on Logix_PIDE under Global Objects.

3. Double-click on the SP numeric input object to open its properties. You may need to double-click a
few times to get to the numeric input.

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4. On the Numeric tab, click Insert Variable > String button under the Caption on
keypad/scratchpad field:

5. To configure the numeric input keypad caption to include the tag name of the passed parameter, you
use the Literal string option. In this example, we will fix the number of characters to 11, and choose
the option Right-most characters in string are displayed, since the full tag name is too long to fit
on the numeric input keypad.

Click OK to close the dialog.

6. On the Numeric tab you can also configure how the numeric input keypad displays the minimum and
maximum for the tag value you are entering. You can either enter a value for minimum and maximum,
or use a variable minimum and maximum. In this case, we want to use the variable minimum and
maximum. Select the Use variable minimum/maximum checkbox to do so.

7. When using a variable minimum and maximum, you need to specify the tags to be used. Open the
Connections tab.

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8. Double-click in the Tag / Expression field for the Minimum property and enter ‘{#1.PVEUMin}’.

9. Now double-click in the Tag / Expression field for the Maximum property and enter ‘{#1.PVEUMax}’.
Your Connections tab should look like this:

9. Click OK to close the numeric input properties dialog.

Investigate “carry forward” parameters

You will now look at how parameter lists and parameter files support “carry forward” parameters.

1. Click the FactoryTalk View ME Sod… item in the Windows taskbar to bring the running application
to the front.

2. On the Logix PIDE faceplate, click the Trend icon as shown below to open another display,
Logix_PIDE_Trend.

When the Trend faceplate is opened, you may see a diagnostic error message. If you do, click the
Close [F5] button. The display should show valid data.

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3. Now open a secondary Ontop display from the Trend (Logix_PIDE_Trend) faceplate. Click the
AutoTune button as shown below:

When the AutoTune faceplate is opened, note the errors shown in the diagnostic window, and that
the AutoTune display does not have valid data.

4. Click the Shutdown Demo button to close the test application.

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Fixing the PIDE faceplate errors
You will now explore the PIDE faceplates and determine why you are getting errors at run time. You will
look at how parameters are passed from one display to secondary faceplates or displays and fix any
problems you find.

1. Expand the Diagnostic list in FactoryTalk View Studio so you can see a number of entries, as shown
below:

Scroll down the list to see the errors that are there. Error messages display this icon: .
Note that most of the errors say that an “Expression contains a tag that has an error value.”, and
display the expression with the error. You might notice that all of the expressions listed reference the
#2 tag placeholder. This most likely indicates that there is a problem with the second tag reference
being passed somewhere between the initial display and the AutoTune display. In the next steps you
will look at the parameter passing configuration and try to find the problem.

2. The last diagnostic errors you saw were generated on the AutoTune, or Logix_PIDE_AutoTune
display. This display is generated from a Global Object imported with the PID faceplates, so you will
need to explore how the faceplate Global Object gets its data. Double-click Logix_PIDE_AutoTune
under Global Objects in the application Explorer:

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 The Logix_PIDE_AutoTune Global Object is opened:

3. You can determine what tags are required on a display by using a few keyboard shortcuts.
Press CTRL + A to select all components on the display. Press Ctrl + R to open the Tag
Substitution dialog:

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 The Tag Substitution dialog is primarily used to make substitutions for tag references on a display.
We are using it here because it shows all tags referenced in the display. Look at the tags listed in the
Search for list, and note that two tag placeholders (#1 and #2) are referenced. This means that the
display is expecting to get at least two tag placeholders passed to it when it is opened.

4. Click Close to close the tag Substitution dialog.

5. The Logix_PIDE_AutoTune display is opened from a Goto Display button on the Logix_PIDE_Trend
display. This display is again generated from a Global Object, so double-click on Logix_PIDE_Trend
under Global Objects in the application Explorer:

The Logix_PIDE_Trend global object display is opened:

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6. Right-click on the Global Object display and select Object Explorer.

7. The View Studio Object Explorer is opened. Find and double-click AutoTune_GotoDisplayButton to
open the Properties dialog for that object.

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8. Note that the Parameter list includes tag placeholders #1 and #2:

These are the tag placeholders required by the AutoTune display, so this Goto Display button is
configured properly. Click Cancel to close the Properties dialog.

9. The Logix_PIDE_Trend display is opened from a Goto Display button on the Logix_PIDE display.
Again the Logix_PIDE is generated from a Global Object, so double-click on Logix_PIDE under
Global Objects in the application Explorer.

10. When the global object display opens, right-click on it and select Object Explorer (if it is not already
open). Double-click on the Trend_GotoDisplayButton object in the Object Explorer to open the
Properties dialog for the button.

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11. Note that the Parameter list again has two tag placeholders, #1 and #2. Again, this is what is required
for the secondary displays, so click Cancel to close the Properties dialog.

12. Finally, the Logix_PIDE display is opened from a Goto Display button on the 12 What is new
display. Double-click 12 What is new under Displays in the application Explorer to open it.

13. On the 12 What is new display, double-click the Process faceplates with Carry Forward
Parameters Goto Display button to open its Properties dialog.

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14. The property we are interested in is the Parameter list. The property value is too long to see in the
space provided, so click in the box to place the cursor there and use the right arrow key to scroll.
Note that there is only one tag in the list!

The first tag in a parameter list will populate the #1 tag placeholder in a secondary display, the
second the #2 tag, and so on. Although the Logix_PIDE and Logix_PIDE_Trend displays do not
require a second placeholder tag, Logix_PIDE_AutoTune references placeholder #2. Therefore this
placeholder must be defined in the “base” display, the display that initializes the passing of

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 parameters. To fix the errors you were seeing from the AutoTune display, you must add a tag
reference that will be passed through as the #2 tag placeholder.

15. Place the cursor at the end of the Parameter list property, then click the browse button to select a
tag to pass through to the #2 tag placeholder. Browse to and select the online tag PIDE01_Tune in
Program:Fermenter_Temp. (The tag is here: InstantFizz Advanced -> PLC1 -> Online -> Program:
Fermenter_Temp -> PIDE01_Tune.)
Click OK to add the structure tag to the Parameter list.

Click OK to close the Goto button properties dialog.

16. Close all open displays and global object displays. Save your changes if you are prompted to do so.

Testing the Application

1. Click Test Application on the Application menu.

Make sure English is selected as the only language in the run time application, and English is
selected as the initial run time language. Click Finish to compile and start the project.
When the project starts, click the Process Faceplates with Carry Forward Parameters button on
the initial display.

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2. Now navigate through the nested displays to the Logix_PIDE_AutoTune display. On the
Tank_PIDE01 display, click the Trend button to open the Trend display:

Note that there are no errors when opening the Trend display.

3. On the Trend display, click the AutoTune button to open the AutoTune display:

The display should open with no errors! Your troubleshooting was successful. Feel free to navigate
through other displays.
Click the Shutdown Demo button to stop the test application:

Congratulations!! You have successfully explored the use of parameter files and learned how to carry
tags forward using this functionality.

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Logging data (20 minutes)
Completing this section requires approximately 20 minutes.

A commonly required feature in FactoryTalk View ME is the storage of application data. FactoryTalk View
ME provides two choices for storing data, the Data Model and the DataStorePlus ActiveX control. The
following table highlights the differences between the two:

Data Model DataStorePlus ActiveX control

Native/built-in control Add-on feature

Timed, data change, data % change triggers Timed or tag trigger logging

Always active/running Can control logging (on/off)

Only 1 data log model supported at run time Multiple data log support

1 file only, first in-first out after maximum Multiple file support
data points

300,000 data point maximum Only storage limit to data points

Binary proprietary file Plain text .CSV file

Works with Trend display to show historical Does not work with trends
data

Supported in all PVP terminals Requires PVP CE (700-1500), with exception of

PVP v6.0

Good for Trending historical data and native Excellent for plain text or high speed data archiving.
functionality. Easy setup.

In this section, you will:

Use the Data Model storage method to log product counts for the InstantFizz Advanced application

Configure the logging of data for every one second, add the required tags to the data log model and
add it to the project startup properties.

Open the InstantFizz Advanced application

If you already have the InstantFizz Advanced application open from a previous section, you can move on
to the next section, Creating the Data Log Model.

1. To open FactoryTalk View Studio, click Start > All Programs > Rockwell Software > FactoryTalk
View > FactoryTalk View Studio. If FactoryTalk View Studio is already open, then select File >
Open Application… to switch applications.

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2. Select the existing InstantFizz Advanced application, make sure English is selected for the
Language, and click Open:

3. If you are switching applications you will be prompted to close the currently open application, click the
Yes button to proceed.

Creating the Data Log Model

1. Right-click the Data Log Models option located in the Data Log System container to open the dialog
and select New.

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 Data Log Models allow for historical trending.
Multiple Data Log Models can be defined at design time.
Only 1 Data Log Model can be enabled at runtime.

The model will not log data for string tags, array tags, parameters or expressions, and you cannot use tag
placeholders in your data log model.

The Data Log file is saved in a format designed for runtime performance and file size reduction. The file
cannot be saved/exported to CSV or other file format at runtime.

2. On the Setup tab, type ‘Product Counts’ in the Description field and enter ‘3600’ in the Maximum
data points field.

In this lab you will be logging 3 tags at a rate of 1 second, as a result a Maximum data points setting
of 3600 will allow us to log approximately 20 minutes of historical data. 3600 data points / 3 data
points every second = 1200 seconds = 20 minutes

Note that the Description field is for your reference only and is not used by Machine Edition

The Maximum data points are the total number of tag values to store. When this number is reached, the
oldest tag values are deleted to make room for new values. The minimum is 100; the maximum is 300,000.
The default is 1000. The higher you set the limit, the more space the data log file requires on the runtime
computer, or, if you are logging to a custom path on a remote computer, on the remote computer. The data
log file is created at startup of the application. 300,000 points will use approximately 4.7MB of space

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3. Select the Paths tab, here you can define where the Data Log is stored. Leave the path set to the
default location.

If logging to \Storage Card2\Logs and the CF card is removed Data Logging will stop.

Once the data log starts it cannot be stopped during runtime by the operator
Machine Edition does not support dynamic log file creation during runtime

Best practices for a Panel View Plus 400-600 terminals is to data log to a external CF card or remotely
If using a network location the network must have domain name resolution, such as a DNS server, to
resolve the UNC computer name defined in your path, you cannot use the IP address of a network location.

4. Select the Log Triggers tab; here you can define the method used to trigger the logging of data. Enter
‘1’ in the Interval field as shown below, leave the default at Seconds.

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 Periodic:

Fastest log rate possibly is 100 ms however logging too fast can cause performance related issues, in most
cases this rate is not feasible with a typical application due to other loads on communications.

Best practice is logging at the slowest possible rate desired by the process being monitored.
On Change:

Use the On Change trigger to log tag values for any tag who’s value has changed by a certain
percentage. A Change Percentage of 0 will log all changes for a tag.
The Maximum update rate is used to specify the maximum rate at which data servers will send
data to the tags in the data log model.
The Change percentage is the percentage a tag value has to change in order to trigger logging.
To log all changes, enter 0.
Heartbeat
Type a time and select a time unit to specify how often tag values are logged even if no change
has occurred. The heartbeat is unique to each tag in the Data Log Model according to when the
tag last changed value.

5. Select the Tags in Model tab, here you will define which tags will be included in the Data Log Model.

Maximum number of tags allowed in a model is 100

The model will not log data for string tags, array tags, parameters or expressions, and you cannot use tag
placeholders in your data log model.

Tags can be HMI or Direct Reference

6. Click the Tag browse button to open the tag browser.

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7. Expand the PLC1 shortcut, expand the Online, then ProdCounts folder. Use the mouse + Ctrl key
to select the Good, Scrap and Total tags.

8. Click Add Tags(s) to List , the 3 tags will now appear in the Selected
tag(s) window as shown below.

9. Click OK to close the tag browser dialog.

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At this point all 3 tags have been selected but have not yet been added to the Data Log Model.

10. Click Add to add the 3 tags to the Data Log Model. You should have 3 tags in the
Data Log Model as shown below.

11. Click Close to save the Data Log Model changes.

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12. Click Yes when prompted to save changes.

13. Enter ‘Product Counts’ in the Component name field when prompted.

14. Click OK to save the Data Log Model.

Configure application to start the Data Log Model on startup

1. Double-click the Startup option located in the System container to open the dialog.

2. Check the Data Logging checkbox. Since Product Counts is the only data log configured, it is
automatically selected.

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3. Check the Initial graphic checkbox if it isn’t selected already and ensure that 1 Overview is selected
as the Initial Graphic.

4. Click OK to save the Startup changes.

Examine the Trend object properties

1. Expand the Displays folder in the Project Explorer window and double-click on 4A Labeling –
Trend to open the graphic.

2. Double-click on the Trend object to open the Trend Object Properties dialog and select the
Connections tab.
Here you will see that the same 3 tags that you selected for the Data Log Model in the previous
section have been configured in the Trend.

3. Select the Pens tab. The pens from the Connections tab have been linked in this list and there
currently is no Data Log Model defined so you will only see real time data in the Trend object. The
data will start trending when you open the graphic display and will restart every time you open the
graphic display containing the Trend object.

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4. Use the drop down menu to select the Product Counts data log model so that the Trend object will
now display historical data.

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 Trend object doesn’t support dynamically making pens visible or invisible
Note that each pen has a default color, these can be changed
The default width of 1 should not be changed as performance issues can result

Only one Data Log Model can be loaded and available at runtime
The data log will read the data log model only once when opening a display with a trend object
300,000 point data logs can take several seconds to load data and allow the operator to interact with the
Trend object. This will occur each time a display is opened that is accessing the Data Log.

4. Select the X-Axis tab.

Notice the default value of 2 in the Time Span field. Remember that the Data Log Model has been
configured to log approximately 20 minutes of data so you will leave the default at 2 minutes to show
some of the Data Logging capabilities within the timeframe of the lab.

Setting the X-Axis time span too high (hours, days) will also leave a severe memory foot print . The trend
display should never be left open if the X-Axis is configured for hours or days because the HMI will run out of
available memory.

5. Select the General tab. You will use the default Refresh Rate of 1 second.

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 Best practice is to set the Trend Refresh Rate no faster than the amount of time it takes to put a data point
on a trend
Formula: Fastest Possible Refresh Rate = ( X-Axis Time (seconds) ) / (Width of Trend Object in pixels)

6. Select the Display tab. Highlight the value of 200 in the Buffer for extra data field and enter the
value ‘0’.

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 Note that in this lab we are using a Data Log Model to buffer historical data so we do not need a buffer. If
this was a real time trend with no Data Log model and we did not define any buffer you would not be able to
scroll back in time and see historical data. Once you attempted to scroll back in time or ahead in time all
data on the screen would be lost.
Using a Data Log Model also allows for data to be seen immediately when the Trend display is opened,
depending on how long the application has been running. Without a Data Log Model you will have to wait for
real time data to fill the Trend display. If the X-Axis time span is a long time span you will have to wait that
long to see how the data is trending.

Trending memory is consumed over time and not allocated on startup of the application.
Buffer extra data for Real Time Trending only.
Max buffer size 32767 records.
Buffering to much extra data will leave a severe memory foot print.

If the application uses a data log you don’t need to buffer extra data (Data log becomes the buffer).
The Trend object must be linked to the data log file for Historical Trending.

7. Click OK to the Trend Object Properties dialog.

8. Close the display and choose Yes when prompted to save changes.

Testing the application

1. Click Create Runtime Application on the Application menu to create the run time .MER file.

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2. Make sure the file is named InstantFizz Advanced.mer and the Runtime 6.0 application type is
selected, then click Save.

Click Yes if asked if you want to overwrite the existing file. Select English as the initial runtime
language and click Finish.
The run time file is created. It will take a minute or two to compile the application and generate the
.MER file.

3. When it is finished, click the Transfer Utility button on the FactoryTalk View Studio toolbar:

4. Click the browse button for the Source file and select: C:\Documents and Settings\All
Users\Documents\RSView Enterprise\ME\Runtime\InstantFizz Advanced.mer.

5. In the bottom pane, select your PanelView Plus terminal as the destination. The Transfer Utility
should look something like this:

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 Your terminal may look slightly different – look for the PanelView Plus terminal with the IP address of
192.168.1.20.

6. Click Download to download the project to the terminal. If you are asked if you want to overwrite the
destination file, click Yes. You will see a progress bar, and when the download is complete a
message box will tell you the download completed successfully. Click OK.

7. Click Exit to close the Transfer Utility.

8. Move over to your PanelView Plus terminal. If FTView ME Station is not already running, start it by

double-tapping the icon on the desktop:

9. Tap Load Application [F1]. Select InstantFizz Advanced.mer in the file list, then tap Load [F2].

10. Tap Yes to replace the communications setup. When the application is loaded successfully, you will
see the file name in the Current application box. Tap Run Application [F2] to run your project.

11. Take about 1 minute and navigate throughout the application without viewing the Trend display.
This will allow some time for data to be stored in the data logs.

12. Now, switch to the Trend display using the Trend button on the navigation bar across the
bottom of your display.
The data log model started running once the project had started. Since we are using historical data
from the data logs, this data is populated in the trend object every time you view this display.

Congratulations!!! You have successfully created a data log model and used a trend object to view
historical data.

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Appendix A: Configuration/Setup Guide

Lab 15 – NEW PanelView Plus 6 with NEW

FactoryTalk View ME V6.0 and ViewPoint

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Lab Setup and Configuration Information

Lab Information

IA-11-L01 - NEW PanelView Plus 6 with NEW FactoryTalk View ME V6.0 and
Lab Name ViewPoint
This hands-on lab focuses on the NEW FactoryTalk View Machine Edition Version
6.0 concepts for new users running on the NEW PanelView Plus 6 with embedded
Microsoft CE. This lab includes creating an application, working with displays,
global objects, and tags, using parameters and faceplates, as well as testing and
running the application with language switching. FactoryTalk ViewPoint is also
used to host a remote web-based connection to an application. Beginners or
Lab Description experienced users can explore new enhancements available in this lab.
Lab Creator Lianne Chu
Date Created 12/16/2010
Updates:
12/16/2010 Lianne Chu

Hardware Configuration per Student

Qty Demo Cat.# / Description Communication Location Firmware
1 Computer workstation consisting of
1 2 GHz CPU

1 4 GB RAM

1 Hard drive. Minimum 40GB capacity

1 USB Keyboard

1 USB Mouse
Ethernet adapter. Configured for
1 DHCP
Ethernet adapter. IP Address:
192.168.1.1,
Subnet:
1 255.255.255.0
Video adapter. Minimum resolution:
1 1260 x 1024 pixels
LCD Display. Minimum resolution:
1 1260 x 1024 pixels
Ethernet CAT5E cross-over cable 5ft
1 (used with PanelView Plus terminal)
Ethernet CAT5E cable 5ft (used with
1 Event classroom network)
PanelView Plus 6 1000 IP Address: Firmware revision
192.168.1.20, must support
1 Subnet ViewPoint 1.2
255.255.255.0

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Computer/Host Settings
Location Files
Computer Name Varies by machine
IP Address (NIC 1) DHCP – connected to Event classroom network
IP Address (NIC 2) Host computer TCP/IP setting: DHCP
VMware image TCP/IP setting:
IP Addr: 192.168.1.1
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
Operating System Windows XP SP3

Basic Setup Diagram

High level Tank 02

ON

ON

Level H234
Temp.:
123deg PLANT J45 Start/Stop
Auto
Press.: Manual
12Pa

Level :
Tank ON
ON
P Na Force
P H2O 345
4,5m
02 ON
OFF
P Ca 34
Setpoint
Output
P Li LL L H HH
ON
P Pb
ON
P Cu

React. A
ON Output:

Temp.: 123 gr React. B

M Speed: 56 m/s Tank 01

Tank 02 React. C
Waste
Converter
Tank 03
React. D

Tank 04
React. E

F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6
F7 F8 F9 F10 F11 F12
12 102 31

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Application/Programming
Location Files
Copy all files to the root of a USB storage or SD
memory card. Then insert into the PanelView Plus 6
terminal to run the batch that will configure and copy
C:\Lab Files\ViewME – ViewPoint\PVP all necessary lab files.
InstantFizz.acd (slot 2)
ME_Intro.acd (slot 3)
C:\Lab Files\ViewME – ViewPoint\SoftLogix PVP6_Demo.acd (slot 5)
InstantFizz Advanced VP.APA
PVP6_Demo.APA
C:\Lab Files\ViewME – ViewPoint\ViewME PVP6_Demo.MER
C:\Lab Files\ViewME – Alarm Content for Tank2 and Tank3.xml
ViewPoint\ViewME\Beginner Pump Content for Main Display.xml
Complete_InstantFizz Advanced.APA (Chapter 3 and
6)
Complete_InstantFizz Advanced VP.APA (Chapter 4
and 5)
C:\Lab Files\ViewME – Complete_Chapter2_Complete.APA (Chapter 2 and
ViewPoint\ViewME\Complete ME Projects 6)
Copy all files to C:\Documents and Settings\All
C:\Lab Files\ViewME – Users\Documents\RSView Enterprise\ME\Faceplates
ViewPoint\ViewME\Faceplates and overwrite the existing.
[L15 HISTORY] 640x480.gfx
Flag_of_China.bmp
Flag_of_Germany.bmp
Flag_of_Spain.bmp
Language Switch buttons (DEU and ZHN).xml
Program Launcher.gfx
Recipe_Tags.csv
C:\Lab Files\ViewME – Soda Recipe.rpp
ViewPoint\ViewME\Pick and Choose TRANSLATED InstantFizz Advanced.xls
C:\Lab Files\ViewME – InstantFizz Advanced.APA
ViewPoint\ViewME\Pick and Choose\ME Chapter2_Complete.APA
Projects

Additional Equipment Required per Workstation

Qty Items
1 Ethernet CAT5E cross-over cable 5ft (used with PanelView Plus terminal)
1 Ethernet CAT5E cable 5ft (used with Event classroom network)
1 PanelView Plus 6 1000

RSLinx - DDE/OPC Topic Configuration

Topic Name Path to Hardware
N/A

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RSLinx - Driver Configuration
Topic Name Path to Hardware

AB_VBP-1 (no topic

required)
Slot 5, PVP6_Demo

RSLinx Enterprise - Shortcut Configuration

Shortcut Name Path to Hardware
Ethernet, Ethernet > 192.168.1.1 > Backplane > 3, 1789-L60 v18
L15 Student configures this during Chapter 2.
PLC1 Ethernet, Ethernet > 192.168.1.1 > Backplane > 2, 1789-L60 v18
CLX Ethernet, Ethernet > 192.168.1.1 > Backplane > 5, 1789-L60 v18

Application Versions
Vendor Software Version Service Pack
Rockwell FactoryTalk Activation Manager 3.30 CPR9 SR3
Rockwell FactoryTalk Diagnostics 2.30.01 CPR9 SR3
Rockwell FactoryTalk Service Platform 2.30.01 CPR9 SR3
Rockwell FactoryTalk View Machine Edition 6.00.00 CPR9 SR3
Rockwell FactoryTalk ViewPoint ME 1.20.25.0 CPR9 SR3
Rockwell RSLinx Enterprise 5.30.00000 CPR9 SR3
Rockwell RSLinx Classic 2.57.00.09 CPR9 SR3
Rockwell RSLogix 5000 18.00.00 CPR9 SR2
Rockwell SoftLogix 5800 18.00.00
Rockwell Silverlight 3.0.50106.0
1.1, 2.0 SP2, 3.0
Rockwell .NET Framework SP2, 3.5 SP1
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8
Rockwell PanelView Plus 6 6.00.00

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Required Pre-Lab Configuration

Configure the Virtual Network

Select Virtual Network Editor from the Edit menu to open the Virtual Network Editor dialog.

The dialog below will appear.

Select the Host Virtual Network Mapping tab

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For VMnet0 select the physical ethernet adapter that will be connected to the PanelView Plus terminal.

Click the OK button to commit the changes that have been made.

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Additional Information

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