New FactoryTalk View ME Features

• Run-time RAM Usage

• File integrity checking
• RecipePlus
• Run-time file to application file
conversion
• Enhanced language switching
 FactoryTalk View ME Runtime RAM Usage monitor

• New feature in CPR 9

– Part of the Terminal Configuration settings
– Allows for easy monitoring of terminal memory usage at runtime
– Can be enabled and disabled via Terminal settings
– Can also update memory usage values to HMI tags via Global Connections
– Can also be configured to start updating HMI tags via a remote Global Connection

• When to use this feature?

– It is strongly recommended that this feature be used during development and
testing of FactoryTalk View ME applications to ensure that they do not exceed the
limitations of the hardware.
– Do this during development, do not wait until the application is being deployed at
the customers site – you need to monitor these values right from the start!
 FactoryTalk View ME Runtime RAM Usage

Design time options “Global Connections”

• Global Connections changed to tab format

• “Memory” tab added for this feature
 FactoryTalk View ME Runtime RAM Usage

Terminal Information Configuration Mode Screen

• Available on the CE Runtime only.

• Popup will appear every 10 seconds when enabled
 What do the numbers mean?

• Total RAM Usage and Available RAM

– Monitor these two values to determine if the running application consumes the
installed physical RAM on the terminal.
– You can add more memory to the terminal if these counters show high memory
usage.
 Best Practices for Optimizing Performance & Memory

• Why enable this feature?

– Allows developers to monitor how much memory is used by the application when it
is running.
– If the application is designed beyond the limitations of the PanelView Plus and
PanelView Plus CE hardware, it should be modified to reduce memory usage, or
possibly deployed on a PC-based platform such as the VersaView Industrial PC.
– As the application is developed and tested, the application must be run on the
PanelView Plus or PanelView Plus CE terminal with the ME Runtime RAM Usage
feature enabled. The application developer should then navigate to all screens and
exercise all functions of the application to monitor memory usage.
 File Integrity Check

• New in CPR9.
• Enabled by default, can be disabled in Terminal Settings.
• Will slow overall ME application startup time as it examines the files,
slowdown is minimal.
• Warning messages help to identify file corruption issues that had
previously caused terminals to be sent back for repair.
– EG: Corrupted Alarm log causes blue screen at startup.
• Validates the following:
– Alarm log
– Data log
– MER
– RSLinx Enterprise configuration files:
• RSLinxNG.xml, DefaultTemplate.xml. HardwareDatabase.xml
RecipePlus

CPR9 will contain

Delete/Rename
capability
 Language Switching

• CPR9 will contain Language Switching phase2 to include Alarms, Local and
Information Messages.
• Alarm messages will be logged in the current language
– As a result the alarm log will contain messages in different languages if you are
switching languages at runtime.
• Only one language can be visible at development time.
– You must close Studio and re-open in a different language to edit/work in that language.
• Use the 4.00 “CPR7+ Runtime Editing improvements, HMI Redundancy
replication, and String Spreadsheet editing” patch to add the “Export strings
for all languages to an Excel spreadsheet”
– This will allow you to edit one spreadsheet for all languages. Answer ID: 34125
• Custom String Popup Keyboard ActiveX Control for RSView Machine
Edition.
– Keypad support for Asian fonts Answer ID: 33400
• Make sure the fonts you want to use are linked on the terminal.
 Language Switching Enhancements CPR9

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•String spreadsheet editing - text strings for all languages supported
by an application can be exported to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet in one easy
operation. You can also import text strings in one or multiple languages from an
Excel spreadsheet to an application.

•Default language - each ME application now has a default language, not

necessarily the initial language. Undefined strings are displayed in the default
language instead of appearing as question marks.

•Enhanced language switching - application developers can view

user-defined text strings in an application in up to 40 languages, and switch up to
20 languages dynamically at run time. As well, information, alarm and local
messages now support language switching.
 MER to MED Application Conversion

• Run-time file to application file conversion

- beginning with FactoryTalk Machine Edition 5.00, users can create a development file (also
called a project file, or .med file) from a run-time file (.mer). This does not apply to .mer
files made with earlier versions of RSView
RSAsset Security

A-P codes can now be entered in the Runtime Editor