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Cimplicity 8.0 viewers with 8.2 servers?

May 30, 2014, 8:33 am
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We recently purchased the licensing needed to use redundant servers and 10 viewers all running Cimplicity 8.2 (SIM 23) instead of our existing method of 14 independent 8.0 SIM 25 servers all running the same project. Unfortunately, we have uncovered a performance issue with the 8.2 viewers; we have multiple large monitor setups where a viewer will have several process screens and several trend screens open at once, and the Cimview.exe running loads the CPU utilizationup over 50%, causing the viewer to really respond slowly. Clicking on a setpoint, it takes 10-15 seconds before the setpoint can be entered, and switch toggling takes about the same amount of time. GE support is working the issue (they say that they have 3 or 4 other cases with the same perfomance issue) but I would like to see if I can run the 8.0 machines as a viewer and connect to the 8.2 servers. My initial attempt looked OK; all the point data on the process screens was fine, but for some reason the trends showed no historical data. All trend lines are set up as Point linetype, and once opened, display the trends fine, but we cannot scroll back and look at historical data even after the trend has been running for more than 24 hours. Uf I close a trend screen, then reopen it, the trend data starts plotting from the right edge of the screen again.

Anyone shed light on this? Or am I wasting my time, seeing as how once the GE support guys solve the performance issue I will be using 8.2 viewers.
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Displaying tagnames on the screen

May 30, 2014, 12:07 pm
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Hi,
I'm new to iFix and was wondering if there is a way to display all the tagname of the objects/symbols on a screen instead of drilling into each individual one to find its tagname?
Thanks!
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Historian SDK vs API, vs Client Access Assembly... What is needed where?

May 30, 2014, 1:29 pm
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I am back to using Historian after a several year hiatus. What at the time was iHistorian had an SDK that you could use to write programs or use in iFIX VBA scripting, which I did at one point. When I install Historian now I see several different components that I am not sure about.

There is the User API with two subcomponents, User API Run Time, and User API SDK. I cannot find a explanation of what these two components are and when/where one or the other should be installed.

When I read the overview of the "iHUSER API" manual it says "Use the API to develop applications, which read and write data to the Historian server when the Historian SDK... does not meet your project requirements for performance or programming language"

This implies that the "API" is different than the "SDK". But no explanation of the difference, and which is the component called "User API SDK" in the installer?

There is also something called the Historian Client Access Assembly. When I select the server to install, it is automatically selected, but otherwise it is optional. It has to do with .net, how is it related to the SDK and/or API and when would I want this on a client computer?

While at I am asking, what uses the HDA server? When and where should it be installed?

Basically what I want to know is what to install on the Historian server vs what to install on a client. I do not imagine any of the clients doing hardcore .net programming, but I can imagine doing some scripting from within iFIX.
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Timesync to Server

June 2, 2014, 1:01 am
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Good day i have two scada monitor one is Server and the is Viewer I what to sychonize the time of both Computer it ther any way? couse when i quicktrend on the server and i quick trend also on the viewer (SAME PARAMETER) they are not the same grap.. *** blees
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Proficy Shop Floor

June 2, 2014, 5:12 am
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I'm looking for directions how to load and setup Proficy Shop Floor V5.5 onto a Windows 7 Operating System. I would like to try to make this the server with a MSDE database. It seems that our XP server computer has problems that I can't seem to resolve.
Thanks!
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iFIX Not Communicating With TOP Server

June 2, 2014, 9:38 am
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I have iFIX 4.0 in the lab talking to a TOP server. This setup works in production with all the I/O connected and the AutomationDirect 405 PLC running. However, when I run it in the lab with the PLC set to "Emulate Device" iFIX ignores it. I have other clients that can be started that can talk to TOP in that mode, but not iFIX.

We are trying to set up a development environment independent of the live plant. Getting simulation to work is key to this effort.
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Bytes per record

June 3, 2014, 2:39 pm
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Hello all...

I have been tasked with finding out how many bytes per record is consumed per tag in Historian...

Is there an easy formula for this?

Thanks and any advice would be extremely helpful.
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Unexpected behavior of AR and DR blocks

June 4, 2014, 12:46 pm
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Hello, I have been working on my first project with Proficy iFix for a few months. I followed the first course (fundamentals) not too long ago too.

I'm using iFix 5.5 build 8120 with IGS 7.56 to talk to 90 BACnet devices (mostly devices from the company Delta Controls)

My PDB currently have 10,000 blocks and is still growing. We estimated 20,000 blocks once we are done. In our case we used almost only AR and DR tags. We have a handful of AI tags for alarms, but there's 200 at most with a refresh rate of 30 sec.

The data have been updating very slowly for some reason. I used Wireshark on the server to do a network capture and what I found surprised me.

Even when "Workspace" is not running at all, all 10,000 tags are still being kept active in IGS and it keeps sending queries on the network for all blocks, not only the AI blocks.

Any one have an idea why this is happening?

Thank you.
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QPICTDE0000 to IC754VSI12CTD QPV CE Migration

June 4, 2014, 2:06 pm
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Hi GE users & knowledgeble folk ,
I have been tasked with migrating a out of production QPICTDE0000 ( 10,5 inch TFT Quickpanel ) up to a 12 inch Quickpanel View CE .

The original program cleaned folders & builds to a 0 error 20 warning ( warning of overlapping objects only ) .

When doing the conversion process with Proficy ME VIEW 6.0 ( build 5005 ) , I get something in the facinity of 200+ errors .
The errors are because addresses at INT level , now need to be changed to DINT . INT does not exist to select . Also errors are caused because of the BYTE addressing feature seems to be removed .

The application is heavily using Indexed Image Grids , and has mainly 3 values for the images ( copies ) .. in red , green , yellow of the same image / bitmap ..so that the object on the screen can be changed colour by the use of BYTE value .Value 0,1,2
The Byte value is looking at the Base address , which is a %M ...and internal bool in the 90-30 cpu . %M1234 & %M1235 accordingly so that if both %M 1234 & %m1235 bools are off , value = 0 , if %M1234 =1 + %M1235 =0 , then value = 1 . %M1234 = 0 + %M1235 = 1 , then value is 2 . Its been working perfectly for something near 20 years over the history of the code being developed.

But , now parsing the old project into CE , it wont accept BYTE . or INT .
So , for INT,s I have updated them to DINT , but where its referenced , ive made it as so .... Address %R1234[int]
Hopefully this will keep it tied to 16bit word , not looking at %R1234 & %1235 ( DINT ) .

As for the BYTE , I have only option to choose BOOL ..and keep the Index Image Grid setup as IMAGE MODE = WORD , Values 0,1,2 etc for the images themselves ..and Variable I/O Address %M1234 , and Data type = BOOL .
DATA TYPE used to be BYTE in this drop down selection .

Im not in a position to alter PLC code ..the application is 2 days air travel away from where I live . and the site personal do not have the skills to download a altered application for PLC and screens alike .
All I have is a project , and new Quickpanel View CE to use .

Can this be done team ? - because I normally code Allen Bradley , Omron for a living .
Thanks for your time to read and hopefully comment .
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Unexpected behavior of AR and DR blocks and IGS

June 4, 2014, 6:41 pm
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Hello, I have been working on my first project with Proficy iFix for a few months. I followed the first course (fundamentals) not too long ago too.

I'm using iFix 5.5 build 8120 with IGS 7.56 to talk to 90 BACnet devices (mostly devices from the company Delta Controls)

My PDB currently have 10,000 blocks and is still growing. We estimated 20,000 blocks once we are done. In our case we used almost only AR and DR tags. We have a handful of AI tags for alarms, but there's 200 at most with a refresh rate of 30 sec.

The data have been updating very slowly for some reason. I used Wireshark on the server to do a network capture and what I found surprised me.

Even when "Workspace" is not running at all, all 10,000 tags are still being kept active in IGS and it keeps sending queries on the network for all blocks, not only the AI blocks.

Any one have an idea why this is happening?

Thank you.
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Animating points on a polyline

June 4, 2014, 9:20 pm
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Hello,

I have a 6 point bin level profile that I would like to animate as a polyline or even as 5 simple lines.

I can see in the animation options how to move the whole line up and down but I can't see how i move the individual endpoints separately.

Any ideas anyone?

cheers
Gus
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trend control methods

June 6, 2014, 1:48 am
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Is there a method to pick up the time stamp of the slider in Trend Controls?

I'd like to display a trend at the top of my display and map the slider time to a variable.

That variable is then used to animate the bottom part of the display where the tags are animated with the HistN expression instead of the current value.

However I can't find any methods to access the slider time stamp in the help pages.
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JPG as a background pic on a screen ?

June 6, 2014, 5:35 am
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Has anyone used a picture, say of a plant, and then put objects , such as buttons on top of that screen? If so, how would I do that?
Jim
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ASCII to AB PLC Integer format

June 9, 2014, 3:42 am
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Hi,
I want to convert the ASCII characters to the Rockwell PLC compatible "INT" data type tag.
Eg. A PLC tag (data type = INT) has value of "AB" (seen in ASCII Style in RSLogix 5000 software) is equal 16706 if seen in decimal style.

I want to convert the value "AB" to 16706 within Cimplicity.

Tried various inbuilt script functions without success. Any help on the topic would be appreciated....
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how to get connection QP (IC754)

June 10, 2014, 2:26 am
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How to get connection to Quick Panel (IC754) through vb script .
Any .dll classes or lib for this.
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Lonworks LNS Driver for iFix 5.5 or iFix 5.8

June 10, 2014, 5:31 am
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I currently have a Windows 2000/Fix32 machine running LNS Server v3.01 with LNS Power Tool v7.20 driver to communicate LON devices with Fix.

I will be upgrading the machine to Windows 7 32-bit with iFix 5.5 or iFix 5.8. Is there a LNS Power Tool type driver that I can use to communicate LON devices with iFix 5.5 or 5.8

Thanks,
Justin
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CIMPLICITY 8.2 SIM24 slow scripting and alarm viewer

June 10, 2014, 7:53 am
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I have a Cimplicity 8.2 - SIM 24. the problem is that i notice that the execution of scripts are very slow. i.e. even the simple scripting commands like PointSet are taking alot of time to execute.

Also when i run the project on server redundancy , i noticed that the alarm viewer object in the secondary server and on the viewers are very slow, it takes about 4-5 seconds to open, the problem is that i have like mini alarm summary which is actually the alarm viewer object in each screens so the navigation on server2 and viewer are very slow !

these problem are not present in the previous CIMPLICITY version.

The Windows is Windows7 - 64 bit operation ?

Are there any special configuration / cashing / global parameters that should be adjusted for this ?
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90-30 DO Problem

June 10, 2014, 9:16 am
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We are working with GE Fanuc 90-30 with hardware configurations as follows :

1. Main rack (IC693CHS397)
2. Power Supply (IC693PWR691)
3. CPU (IC693CPU363)
4. Genius Bus Controller (IC693BEM331) connected to Genius Bus Interface ((IC670GBI102D) with DI,AI and DO module
5. Ethernet Module (IC693CMM321)

We are having problem on our GE PLC. DO Module (IC670MDL740) seems not receiveing any command (LED indicator stay off) from CPU although we had forced the ladder logic into ON state. However the DI (input) module is working normally.

LED Status as follows :

CPU

PWR : ON (green)
OK : ON (green)
RUN : ON (green)
Battery : ON (red)

Genius bus controller

OK : ON (green)
COMM : ON (green)

Genius bus interface

BUS B Active : OFF
PWR : ON (green)
RUN : OFF
OK : ON (green)

Any advices or suggestion on how to work with GBC and GBI in order to make DO working ??

thanks
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OPC-IGS Data Links

June 10, 2014, 10:12 am
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I am working on an IFIX 5.1 application with a pair of Enhanced Failover SCADA nodes. The problem is that a previous integrator used at least 100 OPC-IGS Data Links in his graphics. These cannot be used for Enhanced Failover.

The following is a quote from GE Tech support on the usage of OPC-IGS Data Links:


"When OPC communications are healthy, workspace's performance is ok as compared to great. However, when there are synch OPC failures, workspace's performance suffers greatly resulting in workspace hanging. That is why we do not recommend this approach and that is why Dataserverinstaller has been prevented from becoming DCOM-enabled (ie hard-coded). "

I have definite problems with Client Workspace being slow or hanging. I am attempting to remove every instance of OPC-IGS Data Links in hope that this will solve the problem.

My Question:

Do OPC-IGS Datalinks on a graphic request data at all times or only when the graphic is called? My graphic files are stored on the Client local drives. I am trying to confirm that the OPC-IGS datalinks are the problem.


Thank you in advance for any help!
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iFIX trending and Microsoft Office requirements

June 11, 2014, 7:08 am
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Which components of the Microsoft Office suite are required by iFIX 5.8 to properly do and view the trending?

I would imagine that iFIX doesn't use Outlook, Powerpoint, Publisher, and OneNote. Can anybody confirm this? I don't really want to license the entire suite if only Excel and Access are required.

Is it the same with iFIX 4.0 and 4.5?

Thanks,
Jason
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