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Hi, DISPLAY command can be issued ONLY on a Client in RSView SE applications. Since EVENTS are executed on the Server, Display Command in an event action is not valid. A workaround could be to use VBA in a Screen that is displayed at all time like a Button Bar. This screen should NEVER close. The VBA of that screen could then check the value of a PLC Tag and issue the Display Command when the Tag value change to a certain value. I would try to use the TagGroup and Tag objects (See RSVSE Help for more information and exemples of the Tag and TagGroup Object) to detect a change in a PLC tag value. Regards

Hi, I did program one or two FIX application few years ago. I did work only once with Intouch and Archestra (IAS) and did a lot of RSView ME and SE. Both Intouch and RSView SE have their bugs and need some patches to be applied once in a while... RSView may be worst for patches. Hopefully, RSView SE/ME Roll-up patch makes it easier now... But on a Developper point of View, I prefer from far the RSView SE/ME Package (V4.0 and now V5.0). You can easily develop and TEST with your Laptop running Win XP pro the whole RSVSE Client/Server Apps. Compared to Archestra, which is better if you have Win Server with SQL server etc... RSVSE is using VBA as the Scripting Language... Not a Proprietary Scripting. In RSView SE. You can easily develop Standard POP UP Screens and open many instances of a particular one. You don't need a Special Function and Temporary Memory HMI Tag that allow only one occurence of a Popup to be opened at a time (Intouch). In RSVSE, One text Object or Caption of a Button object can have multiple lines (Word Wrap) (Try to do that with Intouch...) In RSVSE, I managed to build a Popup screens that shows a list of Motor or Valve Interlocks and their Status according to a List of Tags and their descriptions residing on an MS Access Database located on the Server. The Interlock information’s for all Motors and Valves have previously been generated automatically using a script that scans the RSLogix Tag Export CSV Files... So no need to type anything... Did not yet figure out how we can do this with Intouch. I mean, I know you can manage SQL Database with Intouch and their Scripting, but can you have PLC address information stored in SQL Database table and their Description and have Intouch to Read Status of these PLC Addresses (stored in database tables not HMI Tags...)? RSView SE allows to Export/Import All Screens to XML file so you can achieve global changes in animations, static object etc... RSView SE allows to use Direct Addressing... No need to use HMI Tags. And now with version 5 of RSView SE, used with a ControlLogix V16, no need to use HMI Tags for Alarming... RSView SE could be a better package though if: - There would be some VBA scripting available on the Server side not only client. - Client Key files, Derived Tags files, Event Files, Data Log configuration files would be Text files, not unreadable proprietary format... At least, they have Parameter and macro files that are Text files... - They would include Screen's VBA in their XML Export (And import it afterward as well). Well it looks like I'm a Rockwell Representative. Believe me I AM NOT. Regards, Yves Levesque

Hi, I would suspect that the Dispaly Settings for all your screens is set to "disable the Title Bar" and start Maximized. Did you try ALT-F4 to shut down your RSView Runtime Application? Regards, Yves

Hi, Try: ... Dim MyObj as Object ' or AS NumericInput Dim Total as Double Total=0 For I = 1 to 250 Set MyObj = Me.Elements("DATA" & I) Total = Total + MyObj.Value Next Set MyObj = Nothing ... This will work on a Button1_Released Private Sub for exemple. Yves

Hi, Since you are talking about deleting Comment of Tag's members, then just DON'T delete the COMMENT Rows in the CSV but only DELETE the DESCRIPTION of those COMMENT rows you want to get rid of. Then Re-Import the resulting CSV in RSLogix... Regards Yves