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RE: FactoryTalk Optix Default User Login

Posted By General Quarters Apr 15, 2026 02:26:38 PM
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The main thing is to add a UISession and push the IdleTimeout Events over to that Windows seem new to 1.7 and I'm not sure if you can actually invoke them like you can panels or dialogs, so this seems to have less control for things like change user, change password etc ------------------------ ...

RE: FactoryTalk Optix Default User Login

Posted By General Quarters Apr 15, 2026 02:26:37 PM
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RE: FT Optix Popup freezes tags for animations on the screen that opened it.

Posted By General Quarters Apr 14, 2026 09:30:00 AM
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It's hard to tell what's potentially misconfigured without seeing screenshots of the bindings both on your screen and popup. here's a git project and blog post that shows how to use aliases which might help: https://asqi.org/resources/building-reusable-popup-templates-with-alias-passing-in-factorytalk-optix/ ...

RE: FT Optix Popup freezes tags for animations on the screen that opened it.

Posted By General Quarters Apr 13, 2026 04:04:00 PM
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can you share some screenshots of how your screen and bindings are setup as well as your popup? -------------------------------------------

RE: FT Optix Auto Logout AND Login

Posted By General Quarters Apr 13, 2026 04:02:30 PM
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if you could share some logs of when the idle timeout is hit as well as screenshots for how you have that configured, that'd be helpful. it's useful to temporarily bump down the timeout for testing to get some quicker feedback loops -------------------------------------------

RE: FTOptix DataReady Library: Unresolved Links, Amongst other things.

Posted By General Quarters Apr 10, 2026 01:12:01 PM
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seems similar to the troubles in the Fiix library: https://engage.rockwellautomation.com/discussion/fiix-optix-library what ultimately resolved that was down versioning the library. It'd be worth a shot to try older versions if it has the features you need. Another debugging mechanism that could be ...

RE: FT Optix: Communication between FT Optix and a Beckhoff OPC UA server

Posted By General Quarters Apr 10, 2026 12:47:00 PM
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Is this studio output when running on an emulator or panel? Do you get a live and accurate connection when trying to run the tag importer in studio? -------------------------------------------

RE: FT Optix 1.7.1 new Recipeeditor Datatype

Posted By General Quarters Apr 10, 2026 09:03:23 AM
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I think this thread and demo will help you out: https://engage.rockwellautomation.com/discussion/how-to-configure-radiooption-buttons https://github.com/asqi-carter/reciperadiobutton Note that this is ~1.5.x and uses the previous recipe editor. same concepts apply with needing the save to db and how ...

RE: Inquiry : Factorytalk Optix Communication with Melsec Q series PLC (Gx Works2)

Posted By General Quarters Mar 25, 2026 02:10:21 PM
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The failed to parse can sometimes be caused by opening in excel and clicking yes on a dialogue box. I would try to try a fresh export from GX Works2 directly to Optix studio without opening in excel. If that works, then do your updates in Notepad or test out in excel after clicking no on the dialogue ...

RE: Audit, Diagnostic CSV files shows strange characters

Posted By General Quarters Mar 13, 2026 01:33:28 PM
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can you provide more screenshots of configuration from optix studio. another debugging step would be to check out the db that the logger is pointed to to verify that there isn't an extra column with that gibberish -------------------------------------------

RE: Optix Embedded Databases with external tools

Posted By General Quarters Mar 10, 2026 12:49:00 PM
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You could expose the embedded db via custom endpoints in Netlogic, but I don't think the juice would be worth the squeeze. Better approach on Optix Edge would be to use Portainer to create a Influx / MySQL db container and interface with that both through Optix Studio / Runtime and via external tools ...

RE: FTOptix 1.7.0.804, suggestion

Posted By General Quarters Feb 27, 2026 08:10:09 AM
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can you provide some screenshots demonstrating this? could you rename the folder or alias for the time being? -------------------------------------------

RE: Project Information Not Displaying

Posted By General Quarters Feb 27, 2026 08:07:53 AM
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I'm guessing this is a library import. Have you searched for it in the library? -------------------------------------------

RE: #FTOptix | Detecting an on-going workflow

Posted By General Quarters Feb 27, 2026 08:05:27 AM
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great edge case you've found. A simple hack would be to have a model var boolean helper on your popup for the workflow signing. on your idle timeout that closes all dialogs, use this as a conditional to determine if you should run the cancel method. I have limited exposure to the workflow system, so ...

RE: FT Optix: Documentation on Optix Data/Object Types

Posted By General Quarters Feb 26, 2026 03:58:11 PM
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ugly approach i generally go to is attaching to runtime and viewing the structure via a breakpoint. other go to is the netlogic cheat sheet repo -------------------------------------------

RE: Optix: How do you use expression.

Posted By General Quarters Feb 20, 2026 02:28:41 PM
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You're close. The important thing to note is that adding paths don't work like shown above. You need to add (1) or (#name) to the expression and it'll give a link to actually bind the thing you're trying to populate. Maybe you're doing this and just throwing the path for reference? A screenshot would ...

RE: Events on report and csv export

Posted By General Quarters Feb 20, 2026 02:21:23 PM
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The second and third can be extracted from the netlogic methods and binding to optix variables that are used in the ui. You can also leverage the file explorer library widget to assist here for visibility to where you're writing. I've implemented both of these to address the points you mentioned. It's ...

RE: FTOptix 1.7.0.804, Tag Descriptions

Posted By General Quarters Feb 20, 2026 08:45:47 AM
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I don't think descriptions get polled on runtime. they're brought over on tag import. i forget the exact syntax to call it. your best bet is to throw a breakpoint on this line and attach to runtime: if (iuanPt != null) ( the iuanPt will already be initialized in previous line. from there you can ...

RE: FT Optix Local Messages

Posted By General Quarters Feb 17, 2026 05:19:04 PM
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There is an import / export method for the localization dictionary. you can use netlogic designer scripts to populate key value converters but it's pretty tricky -------------------------------------------

RE: FT Optix - Help with Scale Layout and/or Screens

Posted By General Quarters Feb 17, 2026 05:16:24 PM
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Generally speaking the scale layouts are better for nesting in specific components rather than full screen or project based functionality. See these threads that talk about the distinction: https://engage.rockwellautomation.com/discussion/ftoptix-changing-a-projects-screen-size#bmf68fda06-20ac-474e ...