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RE: FTOptix user managment issue

Posted By PaulGallagher Mar 04, 2026 09:46:39 AM
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Two projects same user. Project a logs on user 1 with password 1 Project b logs on user 1 with password 1 as it is a copy of project a. User management on project b changes password of user 1 to 2. Project a is reopened user 1 no longer logged in using password 1 and password 2 also did not work. ...

FTOptix user managment issue

Posted By PaulGallagher Mar 03, 2026 08:35:00 AM
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Hi, I am not 100% about this but I had two versions of a HMI, one was older and I added the user management to it. I changed the password when running the emulator on the older one. Then on the newer version which had not had a password change when I ran it the password did not work for the password ...

RE: FT Optix - Tag Importer missing + "Invalid namespace index" error

Posted By PaulGallagher Mar 03, 2026 04:23:00 AM
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@Riemer I did not use version control or any online storage system. I may have saved the file while it was connected to a physical HMI. I am not sure if this is a good idea. Sometimes I will download to the HMI, then disconnect the cable to it so I am not connected to it, then I put the cable back ...

RE: FT Optix - Tag Importer missing + "Invalid namespace index" error

Posted By PaulGallagher Mar 02, 2026 11:40:00 AM
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This happened to us. After going through the Nodes folder and comparing several files we found a difference between an older version of the program and when we copied this information back in then it fixed the issue. I am sorry I do not remember the exact place and it took about an hour to find ...

FTOptix: How to log in without typing in the password

Posted By PaulGallagher Mar 02, 2026 08:25:00 AM
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We have a button we are using to log out a user and we log back in as an operator. Up to now this has worked well. The operator remains logged in and if after 1 year it logs out and back in again if no user change has occurred. The problem now is we have a customer that requires user administration ...

RE: Active Directory in FT Optix

Posted By PaulGallagher Feb 04, 2026 03:57:55 AM
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Hi, Just jumping on this post to try to avoid repetition. I have model users with groups and roles. I have added a domain and I am able to log in with my own user name and password onto our companies network using my credentials. I want to assign my user name to existing model groups and roles ...

RE: FTOptix: Old version of Optix

Posted By PaulGallagher Dec 01, 2025 08:05:24 AM
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Hi General Quaters, I proceeded and when you do the version 1.6.2.36 was there. Sos I thought the last version of 1.6.2 would only be there but there were a few minor revisions. -------------------------------------------

RE: FTOptix: Old version of Optix

Posted By PaulGallagher Dec 01, 2025 04:52:38 AM
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Thanks asemlucben, so if I say download 1.6.5.1 and then try to upload the project will it ask me if I want to upgrade the project? If it does the customer will not accept that as this would be a change to a validated software. For medical device no changes are allowed. I have been told by my manager ...

FTOptix: Old version of Optix

Posted By PaulGallagher Dec 01, 2025 03:16:00 AM
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I upgraded my laptop to windows 11 and lost a version of FT optix in the process, I had to make some space for the install. It is version 1.6.2.36. Does anyone know how to get that specific version? It is not on Hub or the product compatibility download center from what I could find. ------------- ...

RE: FTOptix Label Style and auto height

Posted By PaulGallagher Nov 11, 2025 08:18:14 AM
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HI General Quaters, The font size was set to auto (-1) and had not been set before to the best of my knowledge. I get the feeling that the style does not overwrite the size. I have had success with things like rectangles with a given fill color but this one seems not to work. I have redone all the ...

RE: FTOptix Label Style and auto height

Posted By PaulGallagher Nov 11, 2025 06:47:00 AM
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Unfortunately I can't, I have been fixing things for the past few hours as I need to get the machine ready. The Stylesheet has default and I added one to have Tahoma 16 font with normal weight. When I added that font size style, like this, changing default to the one I made then ...

FTOptix Label Style and auto height

Posted By PaulGallagher Nov 11, 2025 03:33:00 AM
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I made a new label style in the Stylesheets and tried to use it, but it did not work. I linked the style to the Style in the label properties. I was able to change the size using a link from the font size to the stylesheet's types font size and you could individually link other things like the font ...

RE: FTOptix CSV Export to CSV

Posted By PaulGallagher Nov 10, 2025 07:03:48 AM
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HI Maher, Hope you don't mind me bringing up the thread after a time. It might be that the first two had a size greater than 4 GB which is more than FAT32 is able to use. -------------------------------------------

RE: FT Optix: LED with background different from white

Posted By PaulGallagher Nov 06, 2025 03:38:33 AM
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I don't know if it was to keep with the ways before optix but we used circles for indicators but we did not like them so we used rectangles and gave them a big radius so they became circles. You put the inside "circle" inside outside one and center align it vertically and horizontally. You have to make ...

RE: FT Optix: create label with engineering units

Posted By PaulGallagher Nov 06, 2025 03:26:20 AM
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HI Nava, I actually prefer to add another label in a horizontal layout with fixed size width for the unit. I have the description, value and then unit as three labels. I then leave the description as plain text and link the unit and value to a more top level so I can change it or see what it is ...

RE: Optix (Panel) "failed due to namespace" errors.

Posted By PaulGallagher Nov 03, 2025 03:48:41 AM
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Hi Volk, We had a namespace index error about a week ago. On examination of the file structure within the project files, a file was missing for reason unknown. After copying one from another project and then editing it the system was back working again. To examine this open two file explorers and ...

RE: FTOptix Alternative to using multiple Alias values in Faceplates

Posted By PaulGallagher Oct 29, 2025 08:41:24 AM
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Hi General Quaters, The link to the PLC tags itself is not synchronizing tags it is just a reference to a node. -------------------------------------------

FTOptix Alternative to using multiple Alias values in Faceplates

Posted By PaulGallagher Oct 29, 2025 05:55:00 AM
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Hi, We are changing from having templates/faceplates that contain Aliases to ones using variables instead. We have a model variable that points to the PLC and then inside a faceplate we point to variable of specific Add on instruction (AOI) in the PLC. Clicking on PLC takes you to, Inside ...

RE: FTOptix Type for Template

Posted By PaulGallagher Oct 24, 2025 10:40:15 AM
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Hi Shane, That would work. Closing the project and editing the YAML file seems to be a reasonable approach. The other way of leapfrog can work but then you might need to do that a few times and it'd slow you down a lot. I recently had an issue where the tag importer went missing, it came down to ...

FTOptix Type for Template

Posted By PaulGallagher Oct 24, 2025 06:39:00 AM
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Hi, I am making HMI templates and I want to make them easier to adjust for different screen resolutions. Sometimes I add variables on the editor but then I want to add another one related to a group but it just gets added to the bottom of the variables. Is there a way to create a type ...