Factory Talk View Studio Question. Please Help!!

Is there any way to limit the number of active displays in Factory Talk View? I want to be able to open a pop up and switch to another pop up without it keeping the first pop up open. Is there anyway to do this? I have about 10 go to window buttons that open 10 different pop up screens. I don't want to be able to have them all open at once.

I am no expert on FactoryTalk View whatsoever, but I believe that you can configure your window to be an overlay type? or a replace type? or something to those effects?

I think if you set it up as replace ,it doesn't let you size the window. You can set as on top and re-size it but that is were I am having the problem.

jjohnson2016 said:

Is there any way to limit the number of active displays in Factory Talk View?

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You don't say if you're working with FTVME or FTVSE. Anyways, as far I know there's no command or method to do that. However, you can try this:

a) FTVSE:
You use VBA code to identify a display (popup) and close it.
The first line is a command that returns a collection of loaded displays. The second command closes a display identified by name. Maybe you could write a VBA macro to close all the popups except the one invoking it. If you're working with FTVSE, look for Object models in FactoryTalk View Site Edition in the help section.

b) FTVME:
Here macros are very lazy; you only can assign values to tags. Macros can be invoked when you open or close a display.

In the Global Connections > Display, you'll find an item named Close an On Top Display. You can write there the number of a display and close it.

Put macros and Close an On Top Display together.