GlenGineer
Member
Hey all.
Recently my company decided to upgrade some HMIs from FactoryTalk SE Local 6.00 to FactoryTalk SE Local 9.0 on new HMIs running 64 bit Windows 7.
The existing HMIs run on windows XP machines. They freeze sometimes and whenever the client file is reloaded a message box that requires user input stops displaying. However most of the time this message box works normally.
These HMI each communicate with its own Siemens S7-300 PLC through Kepsever 5.3.
So right now the new HMIs are being tested while attached to a test bed. Everything works on the new system as it did on the old except this message display that I mentioned earlier.
The message display is triggered through expressions in a macro in the events section of "Logic and Control." These expressions include tags from the Kepserver. This macro works when it utilizes HMI tags. However it does not recognize the KepServer tags. The KepServer tags do work when they drive screen objects in other displays.
I've looked at the FactoryTalk (OPC Display Client?) to see if the data is making it through. It looks OK to me.
Has anybody seen anything similar?
Thanks,
Glen
Recently my company decided to upgrade some HMIs from FactoryTalk SE Local 6.00 to FactoryTalk SE Local 9.0 on new HMIs running 64 bit Windows 7.
The existing HMIs run on windows XP machines. They freeze sometimes and whenever the client file is reloaded a message box that requires user input stops displaying. However most of the time this message box works normally.
These HMI each communicate with its own Siemens S7-300 PLC through Kepsever 5.3.
So right now the new HMIs are being tested while attached to a test bed. Everything works on the new system as it did on the old except this message display that I mentioned earlier.
The message display is triggered through expressions in a macro in the events section of "Logic and Control." These expressions include tags from the Kepserver. This macro works when it utilizes HMI tags. However it does not recognize the KepServer tags. The KepServer tags do work when they drive screen objects in other displays.
I've looked at the FactoryTalk (OPC Display Client?) to see if the data is making it through. It looks OK to me.
Has anybody seen anything similar?
Thanks,
Glen