L04 - FactoryTalk® View Machine Edition and
PanelView™ Plus Introductory Lab
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FactoryTalk® View Machine Edition V9.00
Overview
• Adopted new Rockwell Automation® common installer
Design-time • Persist MER build settings
Improvements
• Context-sensitive alarm behaviors
Run-time • Support Logix extended tag properties
Enhancements
• Revised PanelView™ Plus 7 Standard application constraints
• Windows 10 (32 / 64 bit) Support
Platform Support
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Design-time Improvements
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Adopt Rockwell Automation® Common
Installer
Overview
• Common install experience for Studio 5000
Logix Designer®, Studio 5000 View Designer®,
and FactoryTalk® View users
• Install Now option simplifies process minimizing
user interaction
Benefits
• More intuitive installation process
• Requires less knowledge to successfully install
products
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Persist MER Build Settings Between Edit
Sessions
Overview
• Persist user-selected MER version
• Persist user-selected language selections
Benefits
• Reduce MER build errors
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Runtime Enhancements
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Context-Sensitive Alarm Behavior
Overview
• Alarm History stores Alarm Identifier value
• Alarm display controls write Alarm Identifier
value to a tag as user scrolls through alarms
• Application can use the value to a create
context-sensitive operator experience
Benefits
• Allows creation of context-sensitive
behaviors
• Provide improved troubleshooting
• More effective maintenance
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Support Logix Extended Tag Properties
Overview
• Support Logix Extended Tag Properties
• .@Min, .@Max, .@Description, .@State0,
.@State1, .@EngineeringUnit
• Support runtime language switching
Benefits
• Simplified maintenance of captions and text
Please refer to Knowledgebase Article ID 930988 - Performance • Single point of localization in Studio 5000 Logix
considerations when using extended tag properties for important Designer®
runtime performance information
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Customize Keyboard / Keypad Appearance
Overview
• Allow customization of keypad, keyboard, and
character input interfaces
• Applies to the terminal, not the application
• Preview allows user to review configuration
without running an application
Benefits
• Better match the user input interfaces to
the color scheme of the application
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Platform Support
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Updated PanelView™ Plus 7 Standard
Application Constraints
Overview
• PanelView™ Plus 7 Standard application limits
updated to support 50 displays, 1 controller
shortcut, and 500 alarms
• 25 Replace and 25 On Top
• MER can be built for terminals running 8.0, or
later, firmware
Benefits
• Apply PanelView™ Plus 7 Standard to more
applications
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OS Platform Support
Supported No Longer Supported (Last version
Windows Server 2012 Std (64 bit) supporting)
Windows Server 2012 R2 Std (64 bit)
Windows XP (8.10)
Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition
Windows Vista (8.00)
Windows 7 SP 1 Enterprise Edition
Windows Server 2003 (8.00)
Windows 7 SP 1 Ultimate Edition
Windows 8.10 Pro (32 / 64 bit)
Windows 8.10 Enterprise (32 / 64 bit)
Windows 8 Pro (32 / 64 bit)
Windows 8 Enterprise (32 / 64 bit)
Windows 10 (32 / 64 bit)
Windows 10 Enterprise IoT (Enterprise
2016 LTSB Embedded)
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Hands-On Lab
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Hands-On Lab
Introduction Demo and How To
New users Experienced users
Create a “Hello World” application ControlLogix® tag Extended Properties
Runtime User Management using an
Show controller data on a display RFID reader
Use animation to visualize data Electronic Signature capabilities
Add Alarms into the application Design-time improvements regarding
Learn about Global Objects language switching and the Object
Explorer
Learn how to incorporate multiple
languages into the application Designing Faceplates and reusable
objects
Plotting two or more variables against
each other
Advanced Alarm topics
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