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Banker is there a possibility to post here the patches? Many thanks

Can you be more specific, maybe step-by-step manual, or example? how can i save vsd as txt file this can be very usefull regards

I built one SCADA with CX-Supervisor that connects to MS-SQL, the connection string was: Driver={SQL Server}; Server=COMPAQ; Database=SCADA; Uid=scada_proizvodnja; Pwd=scada1408;

1. Agree with Mark. The test tool could be improved e.g. by adding possibility to enter REAL numbers, importing from excel bulk of values for the addresses in test window etc. Thanks for MWSnap. 2. In NS-Designer you could export whole project or screens to *.csv, edit in Excel, and then import back. this worked only for basic properties of objects (tabs in object's properties you can see when Display expanison tabs is not checked), and instead of widening this feature on all object's properties, they abolished all. you can now export only Label/Message, Alarm/Event and Confirmation dialog setting. There is a replacement for this in Property window so you can bulk edit but it is not as flexible and fast as edit in Excel. Bring this feature back please. 3. Bring back all Excel compatibility from NS-Designer to CX-Designer. 4. Make Flicker settings to be global (for whole project) and for individual screen, so you can choose. Now, when i put Alarm buton (which flickers on any alarm, and when you press it jumps to alarm screen) on a sheet that is attached to every screen, i have to set flicker properties on every window. 5. adding the possibility to use wmf/emf files? i don't know whether this is hardware related or not. now, i have to create bmp or jpg in corel with exact dimensions and add to CX-Designer. any resize of bmp or jpg in CX-Designer produce not preety picture so i don't use it. if i need a resize, open corel or paint, resize, back to CX-D. 6. for pop-ups title bar should be customizable or, if not, prettier, more MS Windows like. 7. library of shapes should be larger and prettier and customizable. the valves in library are ugly. this is for now. regards to all P.S. May the "CX-Supervisor improvements" thread also be started? there is a lot to improve there.

Hi it would be great if you could post here those fixes? Best regards

I've tried to start a thread like this earlier when cx-programmer improvements thread started but no luck. so i'll paste here my sugestion from then. i would like just to drive attention of users, that CX-Designer doesn't allow to copy data from Edit Properties window (which is usually used for group edit) at all. it offers some basic Excel functionality (it can increment numbers in cells etc) but it ain't work with text. NS-Designer had the ability to copy data from Change Settings at Once window into Excel and vice versa. Why did they remove this functionality?? make them to go back things as it they were before (only regarding this Excel feature, the rest is great). desperate. this is a problem. i often have to write large portion of text for example 00.00 00.15 ... 20.00 hours. in ns-designer i've created it in Excel using its features and paste in Change settings at once window. this saves a lot of time. also i think it is beter that you can copy to Excel from edit properties window and vice versa for labels, numeral display/input, etc. As it was the case in NS-Designer. make them return Excel compatibility as in NS-Designer? regards to all

i think it's a free software?

Hi alberto05 all you can do in Omron's CX-Server OPC is to define *.cdm file which is CX-Server file with defined points. you can create *.cdm file in CX-Supervisor, CX-Programmer or in Omron Project Editor (this starts when you double click *.cdm file). this is the procedure: 1. you start CX-Server OPC, right click icon in tray, choose Select CX-Server Project, then you select *.cdm file. this is what you did already. in Edit Project you can add or remove points, change addresses. you can not set any update rate. click ok. 2. you start any OPC client. I started CX-Supervisor, which is Omron SCADA. Create a point here, e.g. point Test, in I/O attributes choose OPC/Other, then a dialog box appers. On server combo box click add the choose Omron CX-OPC Communication Control, a dialog box appears where you select a OPC Server (for Omron it is OMRON.OpenDataServer.1), create a project file (click new). in this project file will be saved the groups with update rate you set. this is picture on the left. 3. on the same dialog box (Omron CX OPC Communications Control Properties) click OPC Groups/Items, right click left pane choose Add group. here you can define update rate for all items in that group. then right click left pane choose add item, and the you can choose one or more points, already defined in *.cdm file, to add to the group. 4. then choose one item from that group that will be the source for our Test point from the begining. in order to connect to Omron CX-Server OPC from CX-Supervisor you need to install Omron CX-Server OPC on client machine with CX-Supervisor. only then you will see the OMRONCXOPCCommunicationControl. the procedure should be the same for any OPC client software. hope this helps. regards.

Hi alberto05, you set update rate in the CX-Server OPC dialog box not in *.cdm file editor. In CX-Server OPC you define path to *.cdm file, which is pre-defined, or you can create new one, and then you define groups of points which will be available for OPC clients. for every group you can define update rate. the pic you gave is *.cdm file editor not CX-Server OPC dialog. I'm not in a firm so I can't give you step-by-step procedure, sorry. hope this is enough. If not, wait till monday. regards.

you can write an .iom file where you are completely in control of what is written to the CF memory card. you use ASCII codes for : or , or -, numbers etc. after that you should rename the exension .iom to .txt for your program? that is the problem.

see thread New program via compact flash CJ regards

I have CJ1M-CPU13-ETN CPU ver. 3.0, ETN ver 1.4. and NS12-TS01B-V1. they communicate via ethernet network. i want to add smart active part ETHERNET UNIT ERROR STATUS in CX-Designer 1.013. When i drag it to the window, i set for that SAP: local network number 1 destination node address 101 destination unit number 26 (it says unit number + 16), also tried 10 plc ip address is 172.25.0.101, etn unit number is 10. ns ip address is 172.25.0.100 It doesn't work, the SAP doesn't read the data from plc. there is no manual for ETHERNET SAPs in CX-ONE 1.1. anyone knows the soliution? thanks.

it cannot be on pop-up window. when put to base screen it works. never mind.

No problem alberto05 Hope others will find this tip usefull. regards to all.

from my example above you need to set 4 words in PLC i.e. 0003060614124533 in BCD format. that is 00DWYYMMDDHHmmss. where DW is day of week which is 06 for sat and 00 for sun. so, in D100 you put mmss, D101 DDHH, D102 YYMM, D103 00DW. control word for DATE instruction is D100, and you need to trigger that. hope this helps. regards.

I looked at ETN21 manual, it seems you've done everything as I would do. maybe you should look at this manual, i have a little experience with sntp. if you need the whole manual i'll upload it, its 1.9MB When the clocks are adjusted for winter/summer, at 0300 AM? in serbia it is. hope you will solve your problem with this manula. ragards. SNTP.pdf

I usually resolve this by setting a script in SCADA which every morning at 0715 hours sets current date/time to a memory area in plc: PLC_Date_Time[0] = $Minute*100 + $Second PLC_Date_Time[1] = $DayOfMonth*100 + $Hour PLC_Date_Time[2] = $ShortYear*100 + $Month PLC_Date_Time[3] = $WeekDay OutputPoint(PLC_Date_Time) SynchroniseNow = 1 Point PLC_Date_Time is an array D100 to D103 BCD and SynchroniseNow is a bit which triggers tha execution of DATE(735) instruction in PLC. So, you need to add in ladder one line with DATE instruction and D100 as control word (in this example). For every plc. This way, all PLCs will sinchronize their time with PC. hope this helps.

Also, I've tried this morning to completely uninstall CX-Supervisor 1.3, using remove feature of the installer. then i completely wiped it out from the registry, manualy (i deleted every key that contains CX-Supervisor, SCS.exe entry). Then i started installation of CX-Supervisor 1.2(9), and after that i started the patch for upgrading to 1.3(20). Same thing happens as before, no lines such as tText = "šđžćč" script compiler allows. My keyboard layout is Serbian(Latin). One thing more, when i switch to Serbian (Cyrilic), script compiler allows to type tText = "шђжћч" but script editor doesn't show cyrilic letters, only |||| (vertical lines) tText = "|||||". Runtime shows Cyrilic and Latin (šđžćč) letters (if i enter the text using edit text function). This is important to me since my SCADA projects are developed mainly for Serbian market. Thanks to all again, for your effort and patience. Regards.

I have read on the Italian Omron's news site about new version of CX-Supervisor 1.3. Link is http://www.omronpress.it/pro_list.asp?year=2006&month=Marzo Does anyone know something more about it? on the offical Omron Europe site i found nothing, but on the stock report in Netherland i found this new version. Anyone?

Thanx anonymous for the response. I looked at the Help->About box, it says Version 1.3 (20). So, there is no MBCS. I installed CX-Supervisor 1.3(20) from the patch I downloaded from Omron download ftp site for registered users, and I applied that patch to CX-Supervisor 1.25 (4). Just to mention, originally I had CX-Supervisor 1.22 (9), then I applied patch to 1.25 (4) and finally I applied the latest patch for upgrade to 1.3 (20). Old projects that already have scripts with tText = "šđžć" works, runtime doesn't alert any error. But, in developer, when I open the script with the line above, and try to save it, script compiler alerts error. My regional settings are English (United States), Language for non-Unicode programs is Serbian (Latin), that is Advanced Tab in Regional and Language Options in Control Panel. Here is an error script compiler alerts, when I press OK in script editor: tText = "šđčćžSyntax error" <UNTERMINATED STRING> 2 compilation error(s) If I type tText = "testing" and press OK, it's ok. If I type the following: tText = "Latin letters are šđčćž" compiler alerts the following: tText = "LatinSyntax error letttttttttttđčćž" <UNTERMINATED STRING> 2 compilation error(s) If I set Language for non-Unicode programs to English (United States) same thing happens, only that I can not see now Latin letters in script editor just vertical lines. When I copy that to MS Word, I see Latin letters. Just to mention, operating system is MS Windows Professional SP2 with all the latest fixes and patches, computer is 2GHz Celeron with 512 MB RAM, and GeForce FX5500 with 256MB RAM. Hope this will help you to trace the problem. Thank you very much anonymous, and the CX-Supervisor development team.

I'm very sorry, I didn't see the link, only the attached file. The manuals are the same. regards

Yes. This Data Log Viewer also has an export to csv or txt file so you can view or edit data from any spreadsheet software like Excel regards

Here is the manual for NT20M. Maybe this can help you. If you need manual for NT20S I can post it here. regards NT20M_NT2000M_Programmable_Terminal_Operation_Manual_V001_E1_01.pdf

We made success to interconnect several computers with PLC in ethernet using FinsGateway 2003. My CX-Supervisor 1.3 reads data from finsgateway device not from physical PLC. Only thing we have to do now is to remove physical PLC and start ladder engine (CX-Simulator) and connect distributed apps in ethernet to it. still no ideas? thanks anyway.

I shut down windows xp sp2 firewall but always use zonealarm pro. after initial request to allow cx-programmer or other communicating software to access the network there is no other problem wiht zonealarm. don't know how it is with windows firewall, i gues it is the same. regards to all.