Indusoft time display from Integer

lunenburger · Oct 8, 2019

Just wondering if anyone has gotten the Indusoft time display to work?
I have a second value in Compactlogix plc and would like to display it in hh:mm:ss format.

I have tried to format a text string following Indusoft's formatting procedure:
Format(“%h”,TagValue)

But I keep getting a token error (see pic)

I am new to Indusoft, but i have been working with Factorytalk View for a long time, so I may be going about this the wrong way...

I am using Indusoft 7.1

any help is greatly appreciated...

ndzied1 · Oct 8, 2019

Try to put your expression in squiggly brackets {}

lunenburger · Oct 8, 2019

I tried the curly brackets, still getting the same "invalid token" error

ndzied1 · Oct 8, 2019

It is probably that the information you are getting back from the CLX is not in a format that the %h format can work with. Does it work if you just use it as a number?

lunenburger · Oct 8, 2019

If I replace the "TimeValue" tag with a number I still get the token error. Both with and without curly brackets

dmroeder · Oct 8, 2019

FYI, in case anyone cares:

(parentheses)
[brackets]
{braces}

ndzied1 · Oct 8, 2019

It seems to work in V8.1

https://youtu.be/RqqoTvja1Oc

@dmroeder - I have the term "Squiggly Brackets" stuck in my head. Not sure I can change now... ;-)

dmroeder · Oct 8, 2019

ndzied1 said:
It seems to work in V8.1

https://youtu.be/RqqoTvja1Oc

@dmroeder - I have the term "Squiggly Brackets" stuck in my head. Not sure I can change now... ;-)

Haha, everyone probably does

lunenburger · Oct 9, 2019

It could be a version 7.1 problem, but Indusoft has this tutorial on their website and it's posted Jan 13 2015. And I believe Version 8.1 didn't come out until 2017...

http://www.indusoft.com/blog/2015/01/13/formatting-a-value-display-in-indusoft-web-studio/

sbaum · Oct 9, 2019

I just tested here on v7.1.3.7 and it works fine on this version.
The Tag/Expression is Format("%h",TimeValue) as in your picture. And I set the caption to ########.
What is the Data Type of your tag? Both Integer and Real worked for me.

I recommend you contact support.

ndzied1 · Oct 9, 2019

I’m not anywhere that I can test this but maybe the OP left out the caption. If that is blank, maybe the token error comes up? I’ll try to test later.

lunenburger · Oct 9, 2019

Thank you everyone for the help....

Right Click "Run As Administrator" on the Indusoft exe
Seems to have solved the problem....

I didn't mention it before, but I was getting a token error with all number formatting types in Indusoft.(thought I would focus on one type and get that working first)

I can edit the number formatting with no errors now,
Very frustrating

On a sidenote, showing a second value in hh:mm:ss format is an incredible advantage over FactoryTalk View!

The amount of PLC programming I have to do to get a timer value to show in hours and minutes in FTV is ridiculous. So far I am really impressed with Indusoft.

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