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RE: FToptix Stylesheet default values

Posted By PaulGallagher Mar 16, 2026 07:23:08 AM
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I have experienced an issue where I have a button type with a color that when works, but if I click on the color on the button it then goes to that value. The button style has a pink type font set to a blue background but the button has its own color also. It takes the pink font color but if I click ...

FT Optix: Time from time server

Posted By PaulGallagher Mar 16, 2026 05:55:00 AM
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The URS I have has a requirement for time synchronization. - Display the date in the DD/MMM/YYYY format. The time will be discernible between AM and PM and shall be either in the 24 hour format or indicate AM/PM, on the HMI, audit trail and reports. System shall be time synchronized to an ***** ...

FTOPTIX USER Management of networked accounts

Posted By PaulGallagher Mar 09, 2026 04:33:00 AM
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Hi, I have user management of local accounts set up. On the URS it has user management function for administrators but I am not sure if they mean networked users also. Is the change password only for local users? I have set up active directory but I am unclear if I should be changing Microsoft ...

RE: #FTOptix | v1.7.0.804 Unable to query user domain groups: Referral

Posted By PaulGallagher Mar 06, 2026 03:59:47 AM
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I also have no CA certificate file linked but I do have one in the location where it should be not sure if it is the right one though. -------------------------------------------

RE: #FTOptix | v1.7.0.804 Unable to query user domain groups: Referral

Posted By PaulGallagher Mar 06, 2026 03:56:06 AM
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I am not using time synchronization between the HMI and the server or the PLC and the server. There is also no time synchronization between the PLC and HMI. -------------------------------------------

RE: #FTOptix | v1.7.0.804 Unable to query user domain groups: Referral

Posted By PaulGallagher Mar 06, 2026 12:57:32 AM
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Hi, I have logged in using my user name and password for the local Microsoft network our company uses on the Optix hmi. I assigned the roles required to access the menu items to the group I am on there. On the title of the project in the project view I assigned the properties for Authentication ...

RE: #FTOptix | v1.7.0.804 Unable to query user domain groups: Referral

Posted By PaulGallagher Mar 05, 2026 05:24:35 AM
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I was able to log in to my own account on our companies active directory while using 1.6.0.626, I up graded to 1.7.1.46. I am no longer able to log in it says the domain is not available. I have not got any CA Certificate file. I am just running on an emulator I saved the project to a different ...

RE: FTOptix user managment issue

Posted By PaulGallagher Mar 05, 2026 02:59:56 AM
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Hi CodeAssist, I saved project a as project a in a different folder yes they had the exact same name! To get around this issue saving it with a revision in the name would help. I usually just save the file into a new folder with the same name for the project. I did know that the emulator runs in ...

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 ...