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FTVE SE 12 Rolling Display

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I have a display I use to show overviews on several big tvs in our plant.  Up to now I have used a single display and change which display is visible based on tag that increments based on a timer.  This has worked great but as my system grows I keep adding additional "blocks".  I have now ran into the issue that you can only have 3000 tags on one display.  While i only display one block at a time all of them load so that pushes me over the limit.  I am guessing I need a vba script to accomplish this .  If someone has done this I would love to see some VBA examples of what you did.  Or other ideas...

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Have you considered making your display a static array of 1000 tags and letting the PLC swap the data around rather than doing it at the HMI?

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Kinda, but the issue is the graphics are totally different.  It would be a ton of work but may have to.

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I use Ignition, a cheap "HDMI Stick" PC, and a cheap Large Screen TV here for the big display boards.  I already have the Ignition Unlimited License, so there is really no cost, but in your case, you could get away with a lower-cost, stand-alone license.  Probably still less than FTView SE.

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