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RE: Printing out Complex Dynamic Links for documentation

Posted By Andy.S Jul 01, 2026 03:43:36 AM
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Thanks, which is what I thought. I've found that I can add the Range and EU extended properties to an RA Ethernet/IP tag, so long term we will probably look to add those into our Tag Import scripting.

RE: Printing out Complex Dynamic Links for documentation

Posted By Andy.S Jun 30, 2026 10:37:24 AM
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I'm working through my symbols, modifying them to accept an Object Type rather than a Variable and found a small problem. The tags that are created cannot be refactored as the new Obj type, they can only be refactored as other variable types. If all my Model tags end up as Objects rather than Variables, ...

RE: Printing out Complex Dynamic Links for documentation

Posted By Andy.S Jun 30, 2026 07:21:00 AM
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At the moment, I'm just working towards an early gate review and no PLC tags will be harmed in this process :D The Model tags I've been creating are just placeholders for simulation and review purposes. At some point I need to work on the PLC data structure and the two constants are: We cannot modify ...

RE: Printing out Complex Dynamic Links for documentation

Posted By Andy.S Jun 30, 2026 06:34:52 AM
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Noted, thanks. It's a shame I wasn't blocked from doing it as I've a bit a rework now :( Do you now if I can create variable types through scripting? I've modified a copy of the tag importer to successfully import tags from an InTouch project export, with some excel pre-formatting and all seems to ...

RE: Printing out Complex Dynamic Links for documentation

Posted By Andy.S Jun 30, 2026 05:46:25 AM
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RE: Printing out Complex Dynamic Links for documentation

Posted By Andy.S Jun 30, 2026 05:46:00 AM
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OK, I'm sorry, I think I am doing something silly and never spotted that I can make an Object in the Model area. I was making a variable, then adding the Ranged and EU to that and then converting to a Type. It all works OK, but now I'm concerned it might break later on. If I make an Object, I get ...

RE: Printing out Complex Dynamic Links for documentation

Posted By Andy.S Jun 30, 2026 05:25:00 AM
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I'll try capturing a short vid of the process, just in case I'm doing something silly. Also, when I try to set EU as agnostic, I get no units and it seems I have to select *something*

RE: Printing out Complex Dynamic Links for documentation

Posted By Andy.S Jun 30, 2026 05:18:56 AM
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I must be doing something wrong as I don't see anything on the Type definition. This is what I mentioned earlier that I can't see on the Type that I've added EU or Range parameters, as it just shows as blank.

RE: Printing out Complex Dynamic Links for documentation

Posted By Andy.S Jun 30, 2026 05:12:56 AM
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Thanks, I'm changing it to that way. Is there an easier way than deleting and recreating the Types? I don't know what goes on behind the scenes so wouldn't like to start messing with the source files.

RE: Printing out Complex Dynamic Links for documentation

Posted By Andy.S Jun 30, 2026 04:55:00 AM
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Great, thanks. Not sure what's going on but I can definitely change the engineering units on each instance, even though the Type is set as degC? I've just duplicated my current examples folder and changed all their EU's. I also noticed that the official Range seems to follow the EU of the parent. I ...

RE: Printing out Complex Dynamic Links for documentation

Posted By Andy.S Jun 30, 2026 04:12:19 AM
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I'm not quite with what you mean by use an object and then make it a Type, I thought that was what I did? I'll be making all of the PLC tags from a variation of the Tag import scripting. I wanted to predefine the range and EU part, so that any contract specific ones added by engineering, met the defined ...

RE: Printing out Complex Dynamic Links for documentation

Posted By Andy.S Jun 30, 2026 03:42:40 AM
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Yeah, the above screenshots were taken from the opened tab of the dynamic link. We use SnagIT and it's a corporate tool delivered to our host machine, though we aren't licensed to use it in our virtual machines and I had some difficulty getting the long screenshot to work. The two screenshots are fine, ...

Printing out Complex Dynamic Links for documentation

Posted By Andy.S Jun 29, 2026 11:16:00 AM
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As my company is an OEM and I'm designing a standard set of methods, at some point I need to start building more formal documentation 😄 I've a fairly complex dynamic link that basically moves a pointer next to a bar graph and scales appropriately to the size of the Scale Layout container. ...

RE: Crash in FTOptix V1.7.3.39 - Windows 11 - BSOD - Project History and Sign In lost

Posted By Andy.S Jun 19, 2026 07:25:00 AM
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Thanks for the pointers, I'm looking to see if there's a dmp file. The Virtual machine, in it's template form, is one I've used for the basis of loads of VM's and it's not been an issue before. If this was the first time, I'd have assumed a Win11 issue. The previous corruption of node files showed the ...

RE: Crash in FTOptix V1.7.3.39 - Windows 11 - BSOD - Project History and Sign In lost

Posted By Andy.S Jun 19, 2026 04:42:00 AM
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Apart from the reboot, the Windows crash didn't really cause too much trouble. The corrupt config file more so. TBF over the past few years, I can count on one hand the number of unceremonious windows crashes I've had. I said BSOD but it wasn't even that informative. The FTOptix log seem to suggest something ...

RE: Crash in FTOptix V1.7.3.39 - Windows 11 - BSOD - Project History and Sign In lost

Posted By Andy.S Jun 19, 2026 04:20:00 AM
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The backed up Configuration file, that is corrupt, is attached here.

RE: Crash in FTOptix V1.7.3.39 - Windows 11 - BSOD - Project History and Sign In lost

Posted By Andy.S Jun 19, 2026 04:19:39 AM
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RE: Crash in FTOptix V1.7.3.39 - Windows 11 - BSOD - Project History and Sign In lost

Posted By Andy.S Jun 19, 2026 04:16:00 AM
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I've now got the backup of the configuration file and it's clear why it's broken. It's doubled in size, but every byte is zero. I've attached it for completeness. This isn't the first time I've seen this sort of problem with Optix. On a much earlier version you may remember I had an issue where ...

RE: Crash in FTOptix V1.7.3.39 - Windows 11 - BSOD - Project History and Sign In lost

Posted By Andy.S Jun 19, 2026 03:08:00 AM
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I've had a quick look and will attach the log to this msg. I was playing with an advanced SVG and comparing how it felt compared to the multiple-SVG method used by the pre-built bar graphs. The error message suggests the configuration is corrupt after a save?? I'll also check to see if the backup of ...

RE: Crash in FTOptix V1.7.3.39 - Windows 11 - BSOD - Project History and Sign In lost

Posted By Andy.S Jun 19, 2026 03:07:48 AM
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