WinCC Flexible Tag Number Display

Hello everybody, I am working with a (relatively) new software package, WinCC Flexible 2005 (Replacement HMI Software for ProTool).

I am pulling a tag from a 315-2DP Siemens PLC, which is a Real number displaying the weight.

The number formats in the WinCC Flexible only shows a "999999" format, but I would like to have a comma when the "thousands" are finished (i.e. 99,999 or 9,999). I can't seem to get this to work.

Has anyone had experience with this? I am pulling from an MD if that helps.

Thanks in advance,

Hayzed1

I know you can do decimal places but I don't see any way for ,s. If all else fails you could call a script on change and insert the ,s and return it as a string for display. If you come up with another way please post it.

Hi.

All you have to do is to write what format you want. So if you want a number to have the following format 785.78, you just write in the I/O Fields format property 'Format pattern' 999.99. Hope this helps you.

/Stefan

No, it is not the decimal point that Hayzed1 is talking about (I thought too at first).
He wants to display values like this:

1
23
456
7,890
12,345
678,901
2,345,678
etc.

I think
place ,s by text field and make visiblity when tag value exeeds the limit values
e.g 1,000
put ,s text field and display it when tag value is grater than 999
it may works
nehe

sounds like a job for a script called on change of value...
convert int to string and use mid function to group into groups of 3 then add comma's

Resurrected thread warning !

Anyway, I dont think the splitting of the value into thousands with commas is reason enough to write a script. To my opinion scripts shall be avoided unless there is a very good reason.

oops....
Why do people restart old threads? Surely search for your answer then create new thread if required...

Jesper .... I agree with whatyou say about scripts but sometimes the customer is a pain and wants stuff like he is asking for