FT View SE Timestamp
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. This software is driving me nuts. Thanks for the info.Ken Roach
Lifetime Supporting Member + Moderator
It's going to involve a little bit of scripting no matter what product you have; I just learned how to do it in Indusoft Web Studio with VBScript. Meanwhile, FTView will let me programmatically set object focus with VBA but IWS won't.
In FactoryTalk View your toolset is VBA and the System tags. The Object Model does not appear to include a timestamp as a property of the Numeric Input or the Button or the Tag object. VBA has a perfectly good set of basic Now(), Date() and Time() functions.
Is your parameter changed by a Numeric Input object, or by a pushbutton action, or by something else like a radio button or checkbox ?
In FactoryTalk View your toolset is VBA and the System tags. The Object Model does not appear to include a timestamp as a property of the Numeric Input or the Button or the Tag object. VBA has a perfectly good set of basic Now(), Date() and Time() functions.
Is your parameter changed by a Numeric Input object, or by a pushbutton action, or by something else like a radio button or checkbox ?
Most will be Numeric Input and a few are pushbutton. I will pickup a few VBA books to help me. I wish there was some good examples that show how VBA interacts with FTView.
arlenjacobs
Lifetime Supporting Member
I would use the PLC. That would help keep the data central, anyone else could see the same timestamp.
If your FTView SE client closes (powers off), would your timestamps still be around?
FTView also has built-in diagnostics; all user actions & tag writes can be saved to the windows event log. That even includes the username so you know who (or which station) made the change. No, it's not going to show right on the screen beside your data. But it is a good history of everything that was changed if you are reviewing later on.
If your FTView SE client closes (powers off), would your timestamps still be around?
FTView also has built-in diagnostics; all user actions & tag writes can be saved to the windows event log. That even includes the username so you know who (or which station) made the change. No, it's not going to show right on the screen beside your data. But it is a good history of everything that was changed if you are reviewing later on.
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