PV+ login in/out

i am wanting to know can i use a keyswitch with an input to bring up the username/password login popup, and also when the keyswitch is switched back it will also log out, am i right in thinking i could use a macro or global connection?

i have looked through the view studio ME manual but does not show anything which looks like it will do the trick

I am not sure you can trigger the security login directly, but you might be able to do it indirectly by using a global display connection to have the PLC call up a secured screen. Hopefully this would in turn trigger a login and not bypass security.

robw53 said:

i am wanting to know can i use a keyswitch with an input to bring up the username/password login popup, and also when the keyswitch is switched back it will also log out, am i right in thinking i could use a macro or global connection?

i have looked through the view studio ME manual but does not show anything which looks like it will do the trick

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You could have the input tag turn on visibility for the login button. Then have a login macro that automatically calls up the secure screen. Then you can run a macro on the display settings for the secure screen so that the user is logged out when that display closes.

You could also use a OSF (one-shot falling) on the key sw input to trigger a bit that is connected to the "remote display close" global tag.

OkiePC said:

I am not sure you can trigger the security login directly, but you might be able to do it indirectly by using a global display connection to have the PLC call up a secured screen. Hopefully this would in turn trigger a login and not bypass security.

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This will allow you access to the screen without proper security credentials. I use this method to get into our protected screens when the security accounts get goofed up (until I have the opportunity to fix them).

However I'd probably use a combination of Okie and bmacattack's posts: Either use the keyswitch make a login button visible, or call up a screen that has the login button on it.

At the moment I have it setup so that the login button visibility is controlled via the key sw
I think I will get rid of the log in button visibility all together and just make the key sw call an ontop display with a login logout and close screen and then use the falling edge of a onf to bring the display up again to allow a logout Button to be displayed

Thanks for the advice