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Run-time RAM Usage

File integrity checking

RecipePlus

Run-time file to application file

conversion

Enhanced language switching

New FactoryTalk View ME Features

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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 thelimitations of the hardware.

Do this during development, do not wait until the application is being deployed atthe customers site you need to monitor these values right from the start!

FactoryTalk View ME Runtime RAM Usage monitor

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Global Connections changed to tab format

Memory tab added for this feature

Design time options Global Connections

FactoryTalk View ME Runtime RAM Usage

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Terminal Information Configuration Mode Screen

Available on the CE Runtime only.

Popup will appear every 10 seconds when enabled

FactoryTalk View ME Runtime RAM Usage

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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 memoryusage.

What do the numbers mean?

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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, orpossibly 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.

Best Practices for Optimizing Performance & Memory

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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

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CPR9 will containDelete/Rename

capability

RecipePlus

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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 areswitching 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 Redundancyreplication, and String Spreadsheet editing patch to add the Export stringsfor 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

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Language Switching Enhancements CPR9

String spreadsheet editing - text strings for all languages supportedby 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 viewuser-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 localmessages now support language switching.

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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

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RSAsset Security

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