FactoryTalk View ME - Displaying Web Page

I am needing to display a local svg file that is constantly updating within my runtime application. My file is located as C:\Users\mccsf\Desktop\file_to_show.svg.

I am using an ActiveX Control Object to display this webpage and the I am using the Microsoft Web Browser Control type. I am having difficulty now setting the URL for this object to be "C:\Users\mccsf\Desktop\file_to_show.svg". I go to the Property pane, and I attempt to adjust the LocationURL property, but it will not accept anything. A warning message with no text pops up whenever I try to set it. I know that on the SE version of FactoryTalk, you can edit the VBA Code and add the URL to a Navigation command, but with the ME version I do not have ability to edit any VBA script.

Ultimately, I am just trying to display an image using an external network URL within the HMI. I already know that the panel has network access to the image I am trying to show, but I have not found a good way of displaying it so I have gone down the road of ActiveX Control objects because the image is an svg file which is supported by a web browser. I also have a bmp version of the file but it is not exactly what I want to show.

If anyone has had any success showing an image using a specific external URL, I would greatly appreciate any help.

Thanks

I did this 4-5 years ago, so it is fuzzy. Heres what I remember

-The panelview had to be the performance type terminal not standard.

-I setup an FTP server on the laptop that I had my images. I used Filezilla

-In filezilla you create a user and then put your folder location under shared folders. Give the user access to read, etc to files in the folder

-I had to change my url on the fly because I was populating with new pics, so I had a string tag for the connection in the runtime.

- URL looked like this ftp://user@laptopIP:Port/Filename.jpg

I hope this helps. If more comes to mind I will post

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_URI_scheme


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I think I may have not been exactly clear, but I am already populating a folder with live images so that part I am fine with. I did use FTP with FileZilla in fact. The problem I have is accessing those files from the runtime file. I really just need to know how and where you put your URL exactly because I haven’t found anything that will let me do that.

See pic the URL goes into the connection tag. I was unable to go to a directory on the laptop at that time. Thats why I put the FTP server on the laptop. The Microsoft web browser will browse through the FTP server and read the file.

Oh wow! That’s crazy that you had to put the URL string in the PLC, but I guess it makes sense. This is probably exactly what I needed. Thank you! I’ll let you know if it works

So I was able to get quite far with this actually. I had this completely working on my local environment. But when I ran the new run time file on the actual HMI, the new ME web browser objects were not displaying anything and had diagonal slashes across it. I have attached an image. I believe this may be because I need to install something that Im missing on the local HMI. Please let me know and I can get this done. Thanks!

I forgot to attach the image. Here it is.

Yeah, I do believe I had to enable it on the OS. I found this document, I think it may steer you in the right direction. A reminder - Your terminal must be a Performance platform.

https://literature.rockwellautomation.com/idc/groups/literature/documents/um/2711p-um008_-en-p.pdf