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RE: Launching Studio ME and opening project from a shortcut

Posted By PBGChip Dec 13, 2025 01:24:00 PM
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That was it! Since we've got the full-blown license, I kept the type parameter in place, so it was really just a matter of replacing Launcher.exe with VStudio.exe. Anyone else looking for this information, use /type:[code] if necessary. The codes are med (ME), sed (SE Network Distributed), sen (SE Network ...

Launching Studio ME and opening project from a shortcut

Posted By PBGChip Dec 09, 2025 11:32:00 AM
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Yeah, this is a super low-impact issue aside from the impact on my psyche. One of my customers has about 10 different HMI projects and I decided to save myself precious clicks and seconds with a shortcut that calls Launcher.exe /o /type:med /app:Project. Studio launches into ME mode, but then I get ...

RE: Logix Designer Compare Tool "Index was out of range" error

Posted By PBGChip Jun 03, 2025 02:14:00 PM
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Thanks for the replies, but this one's still a head scratcher. I tried iterations of exporting & importing and comparing the varying resulting files. I also did a pass through the text of the exports to look for anything named "index" that seems invalid, but nothing stood out (granted the text appears ...

Logix Designer Compare Tool "Index was out of range" error

Posted By PBGChip Jun 02, 2025 09:15:00 PM
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Getting the following error when I try to run the compare tool on two project files. No indication as to which file is tripping it up and neither file fails to validate in Studio. I even tried exporting both ACDs to L5X and L5K and comparing those, and those comparisons fail as well. Not really sure ...

RE: Change Email Address

Posted By PBGChip May 20, 2025 03:39:00 PM
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I resisted the urge to explicitly @ either of you purely out of good etiquette, but had a hunch one of you would be the ones to see me through this.

RE: Change Email Address

Posted By PBGChip May 19, 2025 02:34:00 PM
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Hey, at the risk of sounding like a "me too," is there any new/more specific guidance on maintaining our Engage identity/history through a change in employers? I'm giving this identity up shortly, it'd be nice for my (public, not at all proprietary) history to migrate over to my new @PBGChip identity. ...

RE: Knowledgebase login required when logged in

Posted By PBGChip Feb 21, 2025 09:37:00 AM
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Thanks, that did it. This has been broken for me for months and it's just been one of those "eh, I'll deal with it later" things. And all it took was a few mouse clicks. sigh... ------------------------------ Chip ------------------------------

RE: RA downloader - temporary path change?

Posted By PBGChip Feb 21, 2025 09:23:00 AM
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This may be a kludgey solution, but if the others' suggestions don't work to point to a different location, you can redirect the RATemp folder to a different drive. In fact, I've done that in the past with the RA folder: ------------------------------ Chip ------------------------ ...

Knowledgebase login required when logged in

Posted By PBGChip Feb 21, 2025 09:06:00 AM
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Any explanation or recommendation on the two-fold issue below? 1) I am logged in (and we have an active contract) 2) Are "Everyone" articles supposed to still require login? ------------------------------ Chip ------------------------------

RE: FTOptix: Launching External Applications Using Optix as a Service

Posted By PBGChip Feb 10, 2025 09:13:00 AM
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New to Optix, so take this with a grain of salt. This may be an issue with running as the local system account. Is there a way in Net Logic code to tell it to run those commands as a specific user? I'm thinking an equivalent to Windows' runas command (so worst case scenario, write your command to use ...

1756-IF8H Input Data options

Posted By PBGChip Jan 28, 2025 12:03:00 PM
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I'm curious if there are any best-practice considerations for the Input Data selection on HART input modules. As shown below, the manual briefly describes the differences in the tag structures, but doesn't indicate if there are any implications aside from the ability to monitor values in the tag list. ...

RE: PanelView 800 will not validate

Posted By PBGChip Jan 28, 2025 09:01:00 AM
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Timo, I hope you're prepared for a lot of folks to offer you a beer or coffee! Someone else will probably beat me to it, but I will try to stand up a W11 VM today to test this on and I will report back. ------------------------------ Chip ------------------------------

RE: Resetting the output array of a 1769-HSC module

Posted By PBGChip Jan 28, 2025 08:52:00 AM
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I don't know for sure if this will do the trick, but have you tried resetting it in the IO tree? Either by inhibiting & un-inhibiting (under the Connection tab) or the Reset Module function (under Module Info)? Nevermind that my screenshot is for an entirely different module... ---------- ...

RE: Import/Export

Posted By PBGChip Dec 16, 2024 12:55:00 PM
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While there's no good way to fully import the graphic files, one thing you can do is open FTView Studio twice and have the SE and ME projects open side-by side. You can then copy most objects from one project to another. Some objects (especially PlantPAx global objects and probably most pushbuttons) ...

RE: Multiple PlantPAx process library objects in single application?

Posted By PBGChip Oct 16, 2024 09:09:00 AM
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File under "there are no stupid questions in a brainstorming session": Could it be possible to add a new area to your HMI server and stand up a separate HMI application in there with the PlantPAx 5 components? As you migrate individual controllers, you'd just migrate their associated Displays to the ...

RE: #PlantPAx Configuration Tools alarm setup

Posted By PBGChip Sep 13, 2024 09:13:00 AM
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Yep, same result when run as admin. I had not come across that technote, thanks for the link. I did go through almost all its recommendations yesterday to no avail. I haven't tried repairing Office yet as that's going to be disruptive, but I'll give that a shot when I get a chance to close all 20 of ...

RE: Factorytalk SE Network Users "Unable to Login to Security"

Posted By PBGChip Sep 13, 2024 08:53:00 AM
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Are your client and server computers on a domain? If not, are they both in the same workgroup? I'm not sure if this is required when using only FactoryTalk users (as opposed to Windows-Linked), but I remember reading a requirement that every computer in a workgroup setup needs to have matching user accounts, ...

RE: #PlantPAx Configuration Tools alarm setup

Posted By PBGChip Sep 11, 2024 04:07:00 PM
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Hey, remember that time I said I was on 32 bit Excel? Turns out that was my old machine and I forgot I've been on 64-bit for the last 6 months. I double checked my registry and the DLL surrogate keys are already there. ------------------------------ Chip ------------------------------

RE: #PlantPAx Configuration Tools alarm setup

Posted By PBGChip Sep 11, 2024 03:26:00 PM
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As before, I get the same COM error when I try to do controller tag exports even in this older version. ------------------------------ Chip ------------------------------

RE: #PlantPAx Configuration Tools alarm setup

Posted By PBGChip Sep 11, 2024 10:18:00 AM
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Fortunately for me, the 7.6.3 installer didn't remove 7.5.2 first, so I can run both. I just tested the tag export, and while I don't get the error message about the template in that version, I still get the OPC error when I try to run an export. So I'll still be calling in the support ticket. ...