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RE: FTOptix 1.7 Offline Tag Importer Not Working

Posted By craig1850 Feb 02, 2026 04:34:32 PM
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I thought I would follow up with this. I ended up restarting Optix studio several times. Performing an online import a couple times. Then the offline import magically decided to work. So, maybe it's good now. -------------------------------------------

RE: FTOptix 1.7 Offline Tag Importer Not Working

Posted By craig1850 Feb 02, 2026 11:11:15 AM
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I am able to open the ACD file. Also, I rebooted the PLC, then went back online and did an online save. Then I tried offline tag import once again. No luck. Online import works great. -------------------------------------------

FTOptix 1.7 Offline Tag Importer Not Working

Posted By craig1850 Feb 02, 2026 05:39:00 AM
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So far, the offline tag importer has not worked in v1.7. This is a tiny test program. Less than 10 tags. I added a local Input card offline, then run the tag importer offline. This picture is after waiting for 10 minutes or so. I eventually just cancel the operation. Any ideas or insight on this? ...

RE: FT Optix: Telling the PLC which Screen or Panel number is active in Runtime with PanelLoader

Posted By craig1850 Dec 20, 2025 06:36:56 PM
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This is my two cents on this subject. I created a variable on each screen called ScreenID. I typed in a value that I wanted for the ScreenID. Then, I linked this variable to a Model variable that I called CurrentScreenNumber. So, whatever screen you are on, "CurrentScreenNumber" has that value. You must ...

RE: FTOptix optix based digital alarm message dynamic link to extended tag properties issue

Posted By craig1850 Oct 24, 2025 01:15:31 PM
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Thanks everyone for the help. -------------------------------------------

RE: FTOptix optix based digital alarm message dynamic link to extended tag properties issue

Posted By craig1850 Oct 24, 2025 01:02:08 PM
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Adding a "Changed" event to the top level Alarms tag didn't work for me, or I just don't get where to add it, but I added a 'Description changed' event to one of the individual element descriptions. This seems to be working. -------------------------------------------

RE: FTOptix optix based digital alarm message dynamic link to extended tag properties issue

Posted By craig1850 Oct 24, 2025 11:47:52 AM
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"I'm sure that if you were to change them in the controller and trigger the alarms again you would not see the updated descriptions." You are correct. This is exactly what I observed. I added the Changed event to the 'Alarms' tag, but I am unsure of how to configure it. ------------------------ ...

RE: FTOptix optix based digital alarm message dynamic link to extended tag properties issue

Posted By craig1850 Oct 24, 2025 11:36:00 AM
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Post retracted. Incorrect assumption. -------------------------------------------

RE: FTOptix optix based digital alarm message dynamic link to extended tag properties issue

Posted By craig1850 Oct 24, 2025 11:19:35 AM
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I tried the Value attribute. That did not work. But then I added a label linked to one of the alarm message text. which is linked to the extended tag property description of the alarm bit. See the pics, hopefully this will explain what I did. Strange results. --------------------------------- ...

FTOptix optix based digital alarm message dynamic link to extended tag properties issue

Posted By craig1850 Oct 24, 2025 09:43:00 AM
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I have a dint alarm array in the PLC with a description for each individual element. I want to use this description for the digital alarm message. However, it is not working. Always blank text. I created a sample project to try to demonstrate the issue. Next picture is the result I picked something ...

RE: FTOptix dynamically display local I/O in a Data Grid using extended tag properties

Posted By craig1850 Oct 21, 2025 05:30:19 PM
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This works great! I feel dumb now. Thank you. I have a lot of experience with FactoryTalk View ME and moderate experience programming with Visual Basic.NET. Should have started with C#. I've been learning the Optix software from scratch and some of the basic mechanics of how to do things have been a ...

RE: FTOptix dynamically display local I/O in a Data Grid using extended tag properties

Posted By craig1850 Oct 20, 2025 09:43:43 PM
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I set up object with two I/O points to test as you described. Here are the results. Each point consumes two lines of the data grid. -------------------------------------------

RE: FTOptix dynamically display local I/O in a Data Grid using extended tag properties

Posted By craig1850 Oct 20, 2025 11:56:32 AM
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Fox, thanks for that reply, but that level of net logic is above my capabilities at the moment. Shane, I am using a Tag Grid from the template library. The pictures show how I have it setup and how I did the model. I added a Description to each Boolean variable, which I typed in manually. I want to ...

FTOptix dynamically display local I/O in a Data Grid using extended tag properties

Posted By craig1850 Oct 18, 2025 05:40:00 PM
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I have been playing around with trying to get this to work. I can get the Data Point value dynamically or the extended property description dynamically but haven't been able to get both. This is what I am trying to achieve. -------------------------------------------

RE: FTOptix Deployment failure of application to Optix panel

Posted By craig1850 Oct 09, 2025 06:24:33 AM
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Thanks everyone for the replies -------------------------------------------

RE: FTOptix Deployment failure of application to Optix panel

Posted By craig1850 Oct 09, 2025 03:50:45 AM
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Yes, I can see the web interface. Tonight, I deleted the current application on the panel and let it boot up to the screen where it says "No project on this panel, please load one". Then everything worked as it should. IDK, I even made a small change and did an "update". That worked too. One thing is ...

RE: FTOptix Deployment failure of application to Optix panel

Posted By craig1850 Oct 08, 2025 04:41:29 PM
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I will confirm that. However, I restarted the computer and only opened Optix studio. Same results. -------------------------------------------

FTOptix Deployment failure of application to Optix panel

Posted By craig1850 Oct 08, 2025 08:32:00 AM
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This error message keeps coming up when I try to deploy my application to an Optix standard panel. I know I am typing the correct password. The thing is, it worked once just fine yesterday, but today this is happening. I did read Rockwell's technote on this subject, and none of that helped. The panel ...

RE: FTOptix - How to get date and time

Posted By craig1850 Aug 28, 2025 02:16:28 AM
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I thought I would share in case someone else was searching this topic. I had the same problem. Turns out I had a screen named "DateTime". It was interfering with the ClockLogic script causing the error message as above. I renamed my screen to something else and worked perfectly after that. --------- ...