Welcome to the FactoryTalk View Demo by Rockwell Automation!

The purpose of this demo is to give you an idea of what can be configured using new features introduced in
FactoryTalk View SE 9.0. We want you explore each feature, then take what you have learned back to your own
project.

Each feature has its own section of the demo and can be accessed from the menu bar:

This demo was already created with on-screen prompts describing each feature in more detail to make it as self-
explanatory as possible. This companion document will tell you what to click to highlight the feature in action.

Contents
Welcome to the FactoryTalk View Demo by Rockwell Automation!...................................................................... 1
Recipe Management ............................................................................................................................................. 2
Trend Pro ............................................................................................................................................................... 5
Logix Extended Properties ..................................................................................................................................... 7
Hyperlink Animation .............................................................................................................................................. 8
Data Displays ......................................................................................................................................................... 9
Security Functions ............................................................................................................................................... 10
Alarming Functions .............................................................................................................................................. 11
Controller Communications ................................................................................................................................ 12
Print Screen to PDF .............................................................................................................................................. 13
Mobile Displays (FactoryTalk ViewPoint) ............................................................................................................ 14
Mobile Alarming .................................................................................................................................................. 16
Recipe Management

To access this feature, click “Recipe Management” on the menu bar.

Click the Editor button to access the RecipePro editor.

This editor can be accessed at runtime from a client or during development from FactoryTalk View Studio. In the
editor, you can see some recipe files that have been created for the demo application.

Here are some tasks you can do in the Editor:

 New Recipes: To create a new blank recipe, click the “New Recipe” icon

or
You can right-click on an existing recipe to duplicate it to save some recipe creation time.

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 Current Values: Click the “Refresh” to display the current tag values against the values in the recipe file.
The values will be red if they do not match the recipe file values.

 Export: You can select some recipes to export to a CSV file format using the “Export” option. Don’t
forget to choose a location for the exported files.
Recipe files can be created or edited by any tool you want as long as the final format is CSV.

 Import: Try importing a modified CSV file by using the “Import” option.

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Here are some tasks you can do on the Recipe Management graphic screen:

 Download: To load a recipe, type one of the recipe names in the entry field and click “Download”. You
will see the values reflected on the screen.

 Upload: Try changing some setpoints on the screen.

Then use the “Upload” option to write the new values to the recipe file.

Open the RecipePro Editor to verify the uploaded values were written to the file.

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Trend Pro
To access this feature, click “Trend Pro” on the menu bar.

You will see 3 traces already configured and drawing.

 Ad-hoc runtime trend: Try adding another trace by navigating through the tag list, then dragging the
desired tag to the trend area. You can browse live data, datalog tags, or FactoryTalk Historian tags.

In addition to sampling some of the runtime options explained on the screen, here are some additional
functions to explore.

 Export: Right-click on the trend and select “Trace Data” and you will be presented with a table showing
all the data currently being displayed on the trend. Narrow format shows all data listed by time; Wide
format shows data by time, but separated by tag; Sparse Wide format shows values only when they
have changed from the previous sample.

You can change the time period here to

see additional data, or you can print it.

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 Zoom/Change Time Span: You can use your mouse scroll bar to change the time span of the trend.

You can also use the +/- buttons to zoom in and zoom out the displayed time span. At any time you can
revert back to the default by clicking the back arrow button.

 Printing the trend: You can print the trend area directly from the control.

Saving an image: You can save the trend area to a graphic file
by right-clicking on the control and selecting “Capture Image”

The result in both cases is the trend area without the trace list or toolbars.

 Trend Properties: You can access the trend properties set at design time by right-clicking on the control
and selecting “Properties”

Changes made to the trend persist while the client is running and are reset when the client is restarted.

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Logix Extended Properties
To access this feature, click “Logix Extended Properties” on the menu bar.

You will see a collection of data displayed on the screen. It’s pretty uneventful until you realize what this data
actually is.

 To see how these data displays are configured:

In FactoryTalk View Studio (the design environment), select the screen “04_1LogixExtendedProperties”

For example, double-click on one of the string displays to see the defined Expression.

The normal tag name would be defined like this:

{/Line1_Data::[CookieLine]Sample_DINT}
but to get the tag’s description defined in the controller, you add the .@Description identifier.
{/Line1_Data::[CookieLine]Sample_DINT.@Description}

All the supported properties are displayed and demonstrated on this screen.

 To see how Extended Properties can be used in various ways throughout a project, explore the sub-
menu:

This sub-menu corresponds to the following four displays in FactoryTalk View Studio:
 Tag Properties: shows basic extended properties
 Global Objects: shows how a global object can be defined
with parameters to display extended properties
 Keypad Entry: shows how extended properties can be
displayed automatically for the input tag
 Language Switching: shows how extended properties can
support multiple languages switched from the HMI client.

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Hyperlink Animation
To access this feature, click “Hyperlink” on the menu bar.

Click on the hyperlink to open the link on the default external browser.

Some tips to remember:

 Hyperlinks can be a web address or to any browser-supported file type (like PDF) – but if linking to a file,
best practice is to host it on a web server as opposed to a Windows file location (like “c:\myfile.pdf”).
The Windows file location will work on a PC, but not on a mobile devices (when published to ViewPoint).

 Hyperlinks are a type of animation which means you can customize the appearance to match the look
and feel of you application. (In other words, we don’t automatically make the link blue and appear
underlined!)

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Data Displays
To access this feature, click “Data Displays” on the menu bar.

Dynamic Decimal Places

 Set the desired number of decimal places by changing the input field. Typically entries ranged between
0-3 work best for this demo.

If you set too many decimal places and the field length is too small to support it, the field will display as
many significant digits as it can. For example:

Other examples on the screen show how to configure dynamic decimal places within a global object and on a
popup via parameter passing.

Scientific Notation

There’s nothing to click or type here. This display just shows you how a display field can be configured to always
display scientific notation to make it easier for the operator to consistently read very small or very large values.

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Security Functions
To access this feature, click “Security Functions” on the menu bar.

For this part of the demo to work, you have to make sure you have the right users/groups set up. This
procedure is described in the SETUP document.

Here is how the demo works:

 Login as user Andrew.

You can see how the buttons in Area A are enabled, but the buttons in Area B are disabled.

If you explore how this is configured on the screen, you’ll see in this example, the disabled state of the
button checks the current user’s group permissions.

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Alarming Functions
To access this feature, click “Alarms” on the menu bar.

First, generate some alarms by clicking the Alarms ON button.

You can use the Alarm Summary toolbar to Shelve, Unshelve, Supress, and Disable selected alarms.

As you manipulate the alarm states, you will see the function counts on the screen update:

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Controller Communications
To access this feature, click “Controller Comms” on the menu bar.

You can click this button to inhibit communications with the controller:

If you explore how this is configured on the screen, you’ll see in this example, the button toggles the Logix
predefined tag: @DataCommunicationsInhibit

The Logix predefined tag can also be used for animation purposes.

If disabling a controller from the HMI screen is not your favorite thing to do, you can also do it from FactoryTalk
View Studio within the Communications Setup dialog.

Right-click Properties on the controller, then Inhibit Data Communications on the Device Properties dialog.

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Print Screen to PDF
To access this feature, click the printer icon on the menu bar.

 Click on the printer icon and you’ll be asked to enter a PDF file name and location. You’ll see the
resulting PDF is the entire screen because the command ScreenPrint is used. This command is optimal
when the HMI client is configured to launch full-screen (which is most common, but we didn’t do that
for the demo application so it’s easier for you to explore how it’s configured in FactoryTalk View Studio)

 Check out how this command works in FactoryTalk View Studio on the screen “90_header”.
The PDF option works for both printing commands: ScreenPrint and the individual PrintDisplay

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Mobile Displays (FactoryTalk ViewPoint)
For this part of the demo to work, you have to make sure you have ViewPoint installed and the application
published. This procedure is described in the SETUP document.

If you have used ViewPoint previously, you are probably familiar with the previous URL to access the web
application. Traditional browser access can be found at http://<host_address>/ftvp. With traditional browser
access:

 The displays are scaled to the size of the browser window, even when it’s resized.
 Navigation access via the application like a typical HMI client
 Not optimized for mobile devices.

However, the newer preferred URL to access the web application is via the mobile client:
http://<host_address>/ftvp/m. The mobile client provides additional benefits:

 Built-in mobile framework providing access to alarms, display navigation, and user login information.
 The displays are scaled to the width of the device, keeping the original aspect ratio.
 Optimized for mobile devices, but also recommended for desktop browsers.

For this demo, we’ll focus on the mobile client because it provides a better experience for the mobile/remote
user, but both URLS are still available based on your preferences.

If you have the ViewPoint application published on the same machine as your HMI server (most likely), then you
can use “localhost” for the <host_address>.

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 To access the mobile client, navigate to: http://localhost/ftvp/m
You’re presented with a navigation menu to access the published displays.
Click on Line1_HMI.

You can click on any of these screens to see them in the browser, then use the navigation menu above
to come back and select other screens.

 To see how this navigation menu is configured, navigation to the administration console:
http://localhost/ftvp/admin
When selecting screens to publish, screens listed in this menu are selected as a “Mobile Display”.

Try un-selecting screens from the Mobile Display list and republishing.

If the screens are web-enabled, you can still access them, just not from the built-in navigation menu.
This is especially helpful for displays like popups, or if you want an operator to always access an initial
screen.

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Mobile Alarming
From the mobile client menu, select the Alarm menu item.

(If there are no alarms, go back to your SE client and trigger some by clicking the “Alarms ON” button.)

Here you will see an alarm list optimized for a web browser and mobile device.
Try resizing your browser and watch the display respond automatically

 From the mobile framework, you can sort how the alarms are arranged.

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  You can type in any text to quickly filter the list.

 You can click on alarm to see its details.

From the alarm details page, you can Acknowledge or Shelve the alarm.

To easily demo FactoryTalk ViewPoint on your own phone or mobile device with access to the internet, you can
access the Rockwell Automation online demo at the following URL: http://ra-1-view.cloudapp.net/FTVP/

Alternately, you can scan the QR code for

easy access!

The online demo is different than the demo application described in this document, but it can be accessed 24/7
from any device on the internet.

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