Solutions
- Bit-of-word addresses that exist in SFSUB instructions in the Simulator now properly appear in search results in WorkShop.
Month: September 2009
PLC WorkShop Suite for Siemens 505 v4.51 Release Notes
Solutions
- Validation errors that occur in the Profibus Configurator while in Limited Editing Mode no longer prevent the user from viewing the configuration.
- Support for non-standard GSD files in the Profibus Editor has been improved.
- Communication errors are now properly reported in Slave Diagnostics in the Profibus Editor.
- Programs that contain bit-of-word addresses in ladder no longer cause unexpected errors while online with the PLC.
- The WorkShop program file no longer opens as read-only when full write access is expected.
- Attempting to search for bit-of-word addresses while online now produces the correct search results.
- Load performance for the Profibus Editor has been improved to better handle larger programs with high scan times.
FTMaintenance v9.7.1 Release Notes
Features
- User security has been improved in Enterprise, Professional, and Expert editions.
- Functionality of the Field Name Utility has been extended for Professional and Expert editions.
- The FTMaintenance Service Request Module has been released for all FTMaintenance editions.
- Work orders attached to e-mails are now sent as PDFs.
- The Default Vendor tab is now available in all FTMaintenance editions.
- Grid item selection has been improved throughout FTMaintenance.
Solutions
- Vendor and customer information displayed in the Equipment tab is now properly retained when attempting to add, modify, or delete a category.
- The Supervisor can now be set in the Employee module correctly.
- MSite Site Config now displays the appropriate list of database types.
- Copy functionality for the Inventory module has been improved.
- An access violation error no longer appears when attempting to add a record after viewing the Employee, Equipment, or Inventory modules.
- PM work order Quick Close no longer results in an error.
- Cost Center Material totals are now reported correctly in the Cost Center Manager.
- Attempting to print a DM Active report using a read-only login no longer results in an error.
- Customer information is now updated properly within the Equipment tab while in the Equipment module.
- Inventory record copied from within a stockroom other than ‘MAIN’ now correctly copies all fields.
- The PM Active Work Order report has been improved to display all information correctly.
- The PM Master Auto-Activate, Auto-Print, and Print Attachments check boxes now function correctly.
- Groups with limited access rights are no longer given an error message upon login.
- DM Work Order printouts that were generated from an auto-print in the Service Request Module no longer display hidden fields.
- Work Order settings in Group Rights are no longer displayed inaccurately.
- Msite now uses the correct authentication mode specified in Site Config.
- The Assign To field in DM Active, DM History, and DM Archive are now properly enabled in the Expert edition.
- PM History and DM History Archive reports are now available in the Expert edition.
- An error message no longer appears when attempting to add a user or change a password in Group Rights when the password contains special characters.
Modicon Simulator v1.03 Release Notes
Features
- Selecting the Simulator toolbar icon in WorkShop when Simulator is running will return focus to the Simulator application.
Solutions
- Micro 612 program files now load into the Simulator without error
PLC WorkShop for Modicon v5.70 Release Notes
Features
- Users can now import ModSoft version 2.62 project files into WorkShop while offline.
- A more informative warning message appears when making changes to PLC Configuration.
- Selecting the Simulator toolbar icon in WorkShop when Simulator is running will return focus to the Simulator application.
- Data displayed in the Data Window can now be printed directly from the Data Window.
- The Data Window now displays 16-bit binary values in two groups of 8 bits instead of one 16-bit string.
- Communications settings can now be stored with the program file.
- WorkShop now accepts communications settings from FTVersionTrak when an FTVersionTrak user requests to edit or view a WorkShop file with specified communications settings.
Solutions
- Selecting a Flush Buffer in the ASCII Message Editor now enables the proper text box.
- Enabling a non-forced contact no longer causes other forced contact to become unforced.
- Zooming into analog input module 140 ACI 051 00 now displays the correct data format.
- Modbus Comm Network Access now correctly retains modified settings for serial ports.
- WorkShop no longer reports an inaccurate memory allocation error when performing a logic search while online.
- WorkShop no longer closes unexpectedly when Cross Referencing by a 6x register start address when the program does not contain any 6x registers.
- Text containing spaces that has been copied from the Windows clipboard can no longer be pasted as a documentation tag.
- PCFL Analog Input Register Flag values are now entered as one word instead of two words.
- Importing documentation from a *.csv file when the Address Display Size is set to 5 digits now properly updates all imported documentation.
- Attempting to add an I/O module in Traffic Cop that exceeds the maximum number of I/O points available for the PLC now displays the proper error message.
- Leaving the ladder cursor on an instruction address for an extended period of time no longer causes the address to change unexpectedly.
- WorkShop now saves and restores the maximized or minimized state of the logic window.
- I/O modules 170 ADO 830-30, 170 AMM 110-30, and 170 ADM 850-10 are now supported in Traffic Cop.
- FasTrak Security no longer allows a program file to be saved when exiting the program if security is configured to disallow saving changes to the program.
- Performing a search while online no longer returns a “logic store record not found” error when encountering a blank segment.
- All documentation now prints properly when sorting by tag or description.
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