finding info on FactoryTalk Studio Displays

bluesparky0791 · Mar 30, 2020

Hello, I am wondering if there is a way to search for a button (I.E. goto config screen)?
I have a customers application and he has multiple (40ish) displays. I need to know if he has a shutdown or goto config screen in any of the displays but do not want to go through every individual display and graphic to find it. Is there a way to do some kind of search to do this?

Thanks in advance

Steve Bailey · Mar 30, 2020

Sorry, but I don't know enough about Factory Talk Studio to offer an answer. But I was recently faced with the same issue and had to use the brute force method.
One would hope that the original programmer named the pages in such a way that you could make an educated guess about which of the 40-ish screens was most likely to have it. A screen named "Maintenance" is much more likely to include the shutdown control than one named "Conveyor_3".

Phrog30 · Mar 30, 2020

I could be wrong, but I don't think you can search for objects, just tags/text. You could export all screens then use a find and replace tool to search for it. Google FNR, FAR find and replace tool. The default name is 'ShutdownButton1', that assumes it wasn't renamed.

dmroeder · Mar 30, 2020

I do the sort of thing that Phrog30 suggested using Notepad++

JaxGTO · Mar 30, 2020

In the tools folder there is a program called Application Documenter that will dump the whole app into a file you can search. It was mainly added for pharma so it could be validated. Very useful for finding direct tag references.

Phrog30 · Mar 30, 2020

JaxGTO said:
In the tools folder there is a program called Application Documenter that will dump the whole app into a file you can search. It was mainly added for pharma so it could be validated. Very useful for finding direct tag references.

Except he's not searching for tags!!

JaxGTO · Mar 31, 2020

But it documents every object and it’s all in one file.

bluesparky0791 · Mar 31, 2020

Thank You for your responses, I will try the notepad++

mister x · Mar 31, 2020

JaxGTO said:
But it documents every object and it’s all in one file.

Yup, it can be a very good tool once you get the feel of it.

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