login panel moves to background

December 23, 2015, 1:05 am

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Hi all,

I have a viewer on which I want to block the windows environment when cimview is running. To start the viewer, I created a shortcut to the start screen with /captive argument.
I also have a script to switch between users. This script logs off the current user and opens the login panel to enter the credentials for the user who wants to log on.

Normally the loginpanel stays on the foreground, but sometimes it happens that the loginpanel has moved to the background, and then there is no way to get the loginpanel to the foreground. The only thing the user can do, is close the cimview with Alt+F4 and then reopen the screen with the shortcut on the desktop.

Is there a way to prevent that the loginpanel moves to the background?

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Item had unknown error

December 23, 2015, 1:53 am

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in a Cimplicity project, I have two devices, both connected to PLC using an OPC server.
In the logging of Cimplicity, I see a few times a day some errors:

23/12/2015 0:54:56 Failure 5548 OPC_0 COPCCallback::OnDataChange -2147352566
Item had unknown error
Error of type: COR_DCRP_ERR, Code: 20016

23/12/2015 0:54:48 Failure 5548 OPC_0 COPCCallback::OnDataChange -2147352566
Item had unknown error
Error of type: COR_DCRP_ERR, Code: 20016

22/12/2015 10:48:01 Failure 5548 OPC_0 COPCCallback::OnDataChange -2147352566
Item had unknown error
Error of type: COR_DCRP_ERR, Code: 20016

22/12/2015 10:08:39 Failure 5548 OPC_0 COPCCallback::OnDataChange -2147352566
Item had unknown error
Error of type: COR_DCRP_ERR, Code: 20016

22/12/2015 9:58:24 Failure 5548 OPC_0 COPCCallback::OnDataChange -2147352566
Item had unknown error
Error of type: COR_DCRP_ERR, Code: 20016

22/12/2015 9:57:19 Failure 5548 OPC_0 COPCCallback::OnDataChange -2147352566
Item had unknown error
Error of type: COR_DCRP_ERR, Code: 20016

21/12/2015 10:46:20 Failure 5548 OPC_0 COPCCallback::OnDataChange -2147352566
Item had unknown error
Error of type: COR_DCRP_ERR, Code: 20016

Does anybody have any idea what is the cause of this error and how to solve this?

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SLider Control

December 23, 2015, 2:51 pm

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Trying to use the Microsoft OLE slider Control
It goes from top to bottom 0 - 25
I need it to go bottom to top 0 - 25
Also need a way to refresh its location when the tag it changes is changed
May not work for me, need a dynamic slider

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Virtual PT = to Modbus PT not the same

December 24, 2015, 8:55 am

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I have a Modbus point that has a value in Cimplicity Point Control Panel as 10.50.

If I set up a virtual point and make it calculation, equation and put the Modbus point as the expression, it has the value of 27042?

Can anyone explain this to me?

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Backup

December 28, 2015, 10:14 am

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Does the backup application backup recipe databases?

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RDP Session - Keyboard Locks Up

December 28, 2015, 12:15 pm

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Hi. We are having a major issue with our iFix 5.8 deployment. We have 2 virtual machines both running Windows Server 2012: SCADA node and terminal services view node. There is a single client running Windows 7 that connects with RDP to the view node to run Workspace.

Intermittently the keyboard locks up and the RDP session has to be killed to fix the keyboard issue. This may happen everyday or happen every other week. iFix has all current sims and Windows updates were last run in September.

I don't know if this is an iFix issue or Windows issue. There are multiple people on the internet that have fixed this with the 3 fixes below but none of them worked for us. We are at a loss here; anything will help.

Windows Key on Local Computer
Turn off filter keys
Change color to 'True Color (24-bit)

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Help on writing from iFIX directly to IGS Server

January 1, 2016, 11:49 am

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Good Morning,

I have an iFIX application in the beer industry (iFIX version: 5.1) and an accessing PLCs Simens S7-300 trough Ethernet TCP/IP Protocol and IGS Server V7.59. OS: Windows XP Professional SP3 and Windows 7 Professional.

I have a medium large Database on iFIX (almost 4000 Tags), composed of several types of blocks (AI, AR, DI, DR, MDI, CAL etc) and want to access most of the PLC Variables directly via the IGS Server instead of via the Database.

I succeeded doing that for reading operations (I can read the PLC variables via the IGS server without going through the PDB using tagnames like 'IGS.Channel1.Device1.DB501.DBX24.0' as Datasource for many objects). The problem is when I try to write directly into the IGS Server. Using the instruction WriteValue doesn't work, since I think that functions only for writing into a PDB block.

Is there any command, instruction, method, macro,... that allows me to write data from the VBA Code in iFIX to the IGS Server not using the PDB? Something like the "poke" instruction that is used in Excel?

I would appreciate any hint regarding this topic.

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Using STALE DATA

January 4, 2016, 6:07 am

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Does anyone know the syntax for testing a tag to see if it is stale data or not in VB ?
I know how to set the Port as STALE DATA but do not know how to check a signal.
I remember seeing it somewhere.

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Alarm ODBC - experiences and suggestions

January 6, 2016, 3:23 am

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Our costumer needs to analyze and query alarm and events history.

So I am planning to create some SQL database, and query table in some application, maybe C#.
The queries will be on time, tag name, alarm status, nothing special.

But, if we have 10,000+ tags, this table will quickly grow, probably millions of rows in months.

So will my queries be slow?
I'm not sure if rdbms are good for this kind of data.

How to build table, maybe to put INDEX(or PRIMARY) on timestamp column?
Operators will query last few days in 90% cases.

Can you use MySQL or PostgreSQL?

Or is it better not to use ALMODBC and SQL, and to read .ALM files directly?

Thanks

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IDTPOP output and IDX files

January 6, 2016, 1:22 pm

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I was just looking at an IDTPOP outfile file and was wondering if there is an explanation somewhere of the fields. Some of them make sense, but others dont. or at least what I would expect. i.E Device.. like where is the IP address data ?

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Local Change management Requirement

January 6, 2016, 8:20 pm

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Do I need Visual SourceSafe installed in order to use the Local Change Management for Proficy Machine Edition?
I can not get it to work. When I enable the Local Change Management and continue to log in as Administrator, it brings up a log on error that says "The Change Management Server on LOCALCOMPUTERNAME could not be located on the network". I am using ME 7.0.
Thanks
Tom

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How to assign different ALARM CLASS to Objects Date Items of same Class?

January 6, 2016, 10:16 pm

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In my application I have created one class for HT Pump. There are 10 such types of pumps. As per customer requirement he wants individual Alarms Screen for each Pump. For that I have created P1 to P10 ALARM CLASS. Now my problem is how to assign these ALARM CLASS to Pump1 to Pump10 Objects? I used default $ALARM_CLASS Attribute in Object but problem is how to assign $ALARM_CLASS Attribute to Alarm Class in Alarm Field of Data Item?

Regards

Anil

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Licensing: .plic vs .ilicense files

January 7, 2016, 1:49 am

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Dear community,

I've downloaded several key license files. Some of them have *.plic file extension, while others have *.ilicense.

Could someone explain the difference?

Thank you.

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color animation in a group issue ?

January 7, 2016, 12:35 pm

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I have group that has two rectangles in it. The object have a default fill color.
In my animation i change the the fill color based on a signal. However, the animation does not work unless i change the default fill on the rectangle to none. is this an issue with 8.2 ?

this is 8.2 Sim8

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Webspace 4.8.2 client on MAC OS 10.11.2 incompatible

January 8, 2016, 7:22 am

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When installing the package Proficy Webspace Client 4.8.2 for Macintosh, the .dmg presents a warning regarding incompatability with the present OS (which is 10.11.2), AKA El Capitan.

Is there a newer version available, which is backwards compatible with the 4.8 server installation.

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IC220SDL953 Versa Safe

January 8, 2016, 12:36 pm

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We had a versa point I/O system come on a new machine we bought , the Safety portion of the I/O keeps faulting out with a "PWR cycle Requ". Does anyone have experience with this? We did not program it so we do not have the program for the safety portion. Is there a way to see whats making it come on without the Safety config tool program? Sometimes it will last weeks without tripping out sometimes only hours.

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