ID

TOPIC

NEW FEATURE

3974

Screen Objects

Data Analysis usability improved for analysing data using the buttons that change time ranges.

4018

Design

Improved "Symbol Library" usability. Expand is the only display mode left untouched to give the symbols more space to display the contents of the category selected.

4021

Screen Objects

The animations in drawing visibility now also supports the option for medium, sloe or fast blinks. Therefore, it is no longer necessary to manage external logic for the blink effect when you can now easily use this new animation feature to set it as preferred.

3920

Design

In addition to variable names, you can now filter them by their dynamic address or description as well.

3912

Screen Management

The space occupied by the "Screen Navigation" resource's navigation bar is now visible in design mode as well. This will allow you to avoid inserting objects within this area when working in design mode.

3940

Design

A  "Reset Windows Layout" command has been added to the "windows" menu allowing users to reset all default positions of windows in the Movicon workspace.

3945

Design

The commands for publishing screens or reports in Web Client now support Windows VISTA IIS7 as well.

3120

Design

Two new commands have been added to the symbol tool bar for placing the selected symbol  in the foreground or background.

3818

Screen Objects

Labels can also be used for XY Trend pens where a rectangle will display showing the two X and Y values corresponding to each point.

1216

Design

An option has been inserted in order to apply filters based on id in the string table.

1616

Screen Objects

A new "Comment" button has been added in the Alarm window with which users can use for adding comments to active alarms. The comments associated to alarms are persistent and re-shown each time this command button is invoked.

2371

Design

A command has been added for updating symbols on screen or whole project that have the same public name of the one being selected.

2471

Design

The variable editor window usability has been improved.

3081

Screen Objects

The minimum and maximum values in variable engineering data are also used by the following objects:

• Dundas Gauges

• Numeric Pad

• Scheduler Window

3214

Report Management

The number of configurable parameters has been extended for a report command. Now users can set and select a fixed reference period and export format when using the "Export" command as well.

4562

Screen Objects

The public symbol management has been revised to be used during design mode with great ease when editing public symbols.

4565

Screen Management

New "Use Antialiasing" option added for screens.  When setting this option, Movicon will use the GDI+ antialiasing function for drawing borders of primitive Movicon designs and curves in Trends and Data Analysis.  This option is now available for Windows CE projects, which do not support antialiasing . This antialiasing feature reduces "scaling" or "gradient" effects of oblique lines giving borders and images more even, flowing and clearer look.

4519

Screen Objects

Users can now manage recipes that have been configured in their project entirely through a new "Recipe Manager" window object.

4655

ODBC

Interface plugin option inserted to enable users to choose a predefined database manager for their project. Therefore all the ODBC DSN connections that Movicon will have to create will be done using the pre-chosen plugin. This will restrict the project to using one specific DBMS allowing database connection parameters to be configured and saved in the project.

4870

Screen Objects

The "OnResetPan" event has been inserted in the "Trend" and "Data Analysis" objects and is called every time the pan is reset in the graph. For example, this operation will be carried out tin the Trend when changing from stop to run mode.

4191

Design

The "Find" command in the string table editor now searches for the entered text in all of the table's columns and not only in the string ID column like it did before.

4482

Screen Objects

Option has been added to allow users to use a numeric pad and alphameric pad for inserting data in the grid of "Scheduler" window objects.

4584

Users Management

Functions have been inserted to allow users to recover lists of user groups and users loaded in runtime.

3111

DOM (Document Object Model)

The "PenDLColumnName" method has been inserted in the "TrendCmdTarget" interface to be used for reading or setting columns used by pens for retrieving historical data.

2643

WebClient

Values entered from Web Clients are hidden if data belongs to a display enabled with the 'Password Style' property.

2763

Tools

An option to set user default languages has been inserted in the runtime users editor. The will enable the language to change automatically according to the runtime user logging on to the project.

2790

DOM (Document Object Model)

Option added to allow users to save and load configurations from external XML files in all Movicon objects using basic script code. This could only be done with Trend objects beforehand.

1570

ODBC

Possibility to choose preferred database manager when using the standard wizard to create new projects. When you choose a database manager to associate to new project using the wizard, a control will be carried out to see if it is possible to connect to the DBMS, and you will also be able to modify the parameters used for connecting.

3714

Alarm Management

The list of conditions used for generating commands has increased to include the possibility to use "not equal" and "Between" along with the already existing conditions.

3532

Design

The "Dynamic Property Inspector" window usability has been improved with a tab listing all variables used in symbol.

3282

Screen Objects

The order of Pens in Trends can now be modified without having to delete them and reinserting them again.

3923

Tools

Tool used for importing and exporting variables to and from CSV files has been improved.

4020

Design

The color, text and bitmap lists now can be modified for multi object selections.

4017

WebClient

Web Client usability has been improved to manage modal windows in the center of the middle of the monitor near browser and to manage progress bar while loading pages.

114

Screen Objects

A new category of selectors and switches has been added which include those with three state mechanics.

1207

DOM (Document Object Model)

The "PenStyle" method has been added to the "TrendCmdTarget" basic interface with which you can use to read or modify Trend pen styles.

2256

Screen Objects

The Trend XY 1000 value limit has been extended to 10,000 values. Therefore optimizing redesigning graphics according to a higher number of points.

3216

Design

Screens can now be associated to "Embedded Screen" objects much quicker by using the drag&drop techniques.

4321

Screen Objects

The alphanumeric pad can now be used for inserting data into grid object cells.

4123

Design

The Variable editor usability has been improved.

117

Screen Objects

A new "Alarm Banner" object has been added to the toolbox allowing alarms to be viewed in banners.

201

Screen Objects

A field has been inserted in the Trend property window to be used for configuring the separator used for saving or exporting data to CSV files.

1493

DOM (Document Object Model)

A basic script property has been inserted in order to let users know whether a data logger or historical log has been set to use the IMDB.

3918

Tools

A new tool has been created for exporting or importing string tables to/from CSV files.

3660

Alarm Management

New option to insert comments for alarm acknowledgements (Audit-Trail). Comments are supported in client-server projects but not in Web Client.

3685

Screen Objects

The IP Camera viewer object update image times can now be modified using a variable in runtime.  When setting a "0" value, the loaded image will be frozen on screen.

5010

Historical Log Management

Setting the "MaxLogFiles" DWORD value "equal to "0" in Windows configuration registry "General" key will completely disable the creation and recording of data in the application's log file to help avoid writing in those devices which support Compact Flash as much as possible.

5097

Design

A warning message now appears when opening symbols libraries created with a previous Movicon version, asking user whether library should be saved using the upgraded version of Movicon.

4591

Networking

A "Connection Variable" field has been added to the RAS station properties in which numeric variables can be set. This variable consents to connecting and disconnecting to the RAS station on command, whereas before calls were automatically made in cases where at least one variable in use needed to be connected to a RAS server.

4322

Screen Objects

Two new options have been added in object properties for enabling or disabling the loading and saving of associated object configuration files in automatic when objects are being loaded or destroyed. In this way any modification done in runtime can be made persistent by actually exploiting the use of the configuration file.

5052

WebClient

The Web Client has been revised to support slow connections as well (56K modems or ISDN lines). In order to do this a new field had been added in the screen properties window where loading quality of the page can be set (value percentage from 1 to 100), when first requested. This will allow the page to be loaded almost at once, even though of lower quality, enabling the user to get down with work straight away from the Web Client without having to wait for the screen to be loaded at a higher quality.

5304

Recipes Management

Recipes have been given support to numeric indexes. This allows recipe activation from PLC to be managed by exchanging a numeric variable.

5356

Alarm Management

A "Command-Status Variable" field has been added to alarm threshold execution properties. This variable can be used to obtain the alarm state or command the acknowledge or reset of alarms during runtime.

5388

Report Management

Four new parameters have been added to the textual report 'Print' command for setting print margins: left, right, top and bottom.  These margins are set in millimeters and the -1 value (default value) consents the default print margins to be used which are retrieved from the driver of the printer being used.