INTEGRATED PRODUCTION & PERFORMANCE SUITE Performance & Visibility ViewPoint QUICK START GUIDE PUBLICATION FTVP-QS002E-EN-E–August 2014 Supersedes Publication FTVP-QS002D-EN-E
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FTViewPointQS.book Page i Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:55 AM Contents 1 • Getting started with FactoryTalk ViewPoint 1 About FactoryTalk ViewPoint web applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 FactoryTalk ViewPoint system requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Installing FactoryTalk ViewPoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Upgrading FactoryTalk ViewPoint software . . . . . . . . . . .
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FTViewPointQS.book Page 1 Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:55 AM 1 Getting started with FactoryTalk ViewPoint This chapter describes: what a FactoryTalk® ViewPoint web application is. FactoryTalk ViewPoint system requirements. how to install the FactoryTalk ViewPoint software. how to upgrade to FactoryTalk ViewPoint 8.00. how to set up web client computers.
FTViewPointQS.book Page 2 Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:55 AM FACTORYTALK VIEWPOINT QUICK START What to expect when you open a web application To open a published web application, all you have to do is open a browser and enter the address of the computer or terminal running the web server that hosts the application, such as http://computer name/FTVP. When you enter a web address in the browser, do not exceed the maximum length of 2048 characters.
FTViewPointQS.book Page 3 Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:55 AM 1 • GETTING STARTED WITH FACTORYTALK VIEWPOINT FactoryTalk ViewPoint system requirements This section describes system requirements for: FactoryTalk ViewPoint Server and FactoryTalk ViewPoint Administration for Site Edition web applications. FactoryTalk ViewPoint Administration for Machine Edition web applications. FactoryTalk ViewPoint Clients. FactoryTalk ViewPoint requires cookie support.
FTViewPointQS.book Page 4 Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:55 AM FACTORYTALK VIEWPOINT QUICK START Operating system Notes Windows 7 Enterprise SP1 (64bit) Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (64bit) Windows Vista Business SP 2 (32-bit) Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard (64-bit) Windows Server 2012 Standard (64-bit) Windows Server 2008 Standard A recommended operating system for FactoryTalk SP 2 (32-bit or 64-bit) ViewPoint Servers running network web applications in a distributed system.
FTViewPointQS.book Page 5 Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:55 AM 1 • GETTING STARTED WITH FACTORYTALK VIEWPOINT Note: The Static Content option must be enabled while configuring Internet Information Services (IIS) for Windows 7 before FactoryTalk ViewPoint can be installed.
FTViewPointQS.book Page 6 Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:55 AM FACTORYTALK VIEWPOINT QUICK START The computer must support a minimum screen resolution of 1024 x 768. REMOVING INCOMPATIBLE SOFTWARE PRODUCTS OR VERSIONS Incompatible software is automatically removed during the FactoryTalk ViewPoint Site Edition installation. As the installation continues, required software is automatically installed.
FTViewPointQS.book Page 7 Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:55 AM 1 • GETTING STARTED WITH FACTORYTALK VIEWPOINT Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3 (32-bit) Prerequisite software FactoryTalk ViewPoint Administration Machine Edition must be installed on a computer with FactoryTalk View Studio 8.00. If necessary, the FactoryTalk ViewPoint setup program installs the following prerequisites automatically: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 with Service Pack 1 Note: If you use Windows 8.
FTViewPointQS.book Page 8 Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:55 AM FACTORYTALK VIEWPOINT QUICK START Note: PanelView Plus 6 terminals ship with FactoryTalk ViewPoint Machine Edition installed. FactoryTalk ViewPoint Machine Edition can generate FactoryTalk ViewPoint content for previous versions of FactoryTalk ViewPoint Machine Edition. During the runtime application (.MER file) creation process, the published FactoryTalk ViewPoint content is converted to the version selected and included with the MER.
FTViewPointQS.book Page 9 Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:55 AM 1 • GETTING STARTED WITH FACTORYTALK VIEWPOINT COMPATIBILITY MATRIX FOR FACTORYTALK VIEWPOINT Compatibility for FactoryTalk ViewPoint Operator Terminal PanelView Plus or PanelView Plus CE ViewPoint Content (included in MER) ViewPoint 1.2 (firmware update packages v6.00.00 or later) ViewPoint 2.0 (firmware update packages v6.020110425 or later)* ViewPoint 2.10 (firmware update packages v6.102011mmdd or later) ViewPoint 2.
FTViewPointQS.book Page 10 Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:55 AM FACTORYTALK VIEWPOINT QUICK START Compatibility for FactoryTalk ViewPoint Operator Terminal PanelView Plus or PanelView Plus CE Runtime Application (MER) version ViewPoint Content (included in MER) ViewPoint 1.1 (firmware 5.10.01 or later) ViewPoint 1.2 (firmware update packages v6.00.00 or later) ViewPoint 2.0 (firmware update packages v6.020110425 or later)* ViewPoint 2.10 (firmware update packages v6.102011mmdd or later) ViewPoint 2.
FTViewPointQS.book Page 11 Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:55 AM 1 • GETTING STARTED WITH FACTORYTALK VIEWPOINT Note: To use FactoryTalk ViewPoint client with Safari 5.1.7, we recommend that you install Microsoft Silverlight 4.0. Safari 5.1.7 does not work well with the latest version of Silverlight such as 5.1.
FTViewPointQS.book Page 12 Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:55 AM FACTORYTALK VIEWPOINT QUICK START Directory. For local applications, install the software on the computer hosting the local application. FactoryTalk ViewPoint for Machine Edition - install this version to create web applications for FactoryTalk View ME. This software must be installed on a computer running FactoryTalk View Studio. 4.
FTViewPointQS.book Page 13 Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:55 AM 1 • GETTING STARTED WITH FACTORYTALK VIEWPOINT Installing Internet Information Services (IIS) Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) is required for FactoryTalk ViewPoint Site Edition. IIS is installed automatically for all supported operating systems except Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. TO INSTALL IIS FOR WINDOWS SERVER 2003: 1. Close all open Window programs. 2. Place your Windows CD in the computer's CD drive. 3.
FTViewPointQS.book Page 14 Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:55 AM FACTORYTALK VIEWPOINT QUICK START 4. On the left side of the of the Add/Remove Programs window, click Add/Remove Windows Components. 5. After the Windows Components Wizard starts, select the check box Internet Information Services (IIS), and then click Details. 6. In the Internet Information Services (IIS) dialog box, select the check boxes Common Files, Internet Information Services Snap-In, and World Wide Web Service. 7.
FTViewPointQS.book Page 15 Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:55 AM 1 • GETTING STARTED WITH FACTORYTALK VIEWPOINT Upgrading FactoryTalk ViewPoint software If you already have a version of FactoryTalk ViewPoint installed, to upgrade the software and to ensure that an existing web application is compatible with the new version, complete these tasks: Upgrade the FactoryTalk ViewPoint software. Upgrade Microsoft Silverlight software. Upgrade the existing web application by republishing displays.
FTViewPointQS.book Page 16 Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:55 AM FACTORYTALK VIEWPOINT QUICK START Upgrade Microsoft Silverlight software FactoryTalk ViewPoint requires Microsoft Silverlight 4.0. If the software is not already installed, you will receive a message the first time you run FactoryTalk ViewPoint Administrator. 1. Start FactoryTalk ViewPoint Administrator from Start > All Programs > Rockwell Software > FactoryTalk ViewPoint > FactoryTalk ViewPoint Administration or from the desktop shortcut. 2.
FTViewPointQS.book Page 17 Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:55 AM 1 • GETTING STARTED WITH FACTORYTALK VIEWPOINT Upgrade existing FactoryTalk ViewPoint ME web applications by republishing displays 1. Open FactoryTalk ViewPoint Administration. For more information, see “Creating a new Machine Edition web application” on page 34. 2. In the Home page, click Publish Displays to Web. 3. All the displays that make up the web application are selected in the list of displays. 4.
FTViewPointQS.book Page 18 Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:55 AM FACTORYTALK VIEWPOINT QUICK START where ComputerName is the name or IP address of the FactoryTalk ViewPoint Server computer. Checking for new versions with every visit to a page To set up Internet Explorer to check for new versions of stored pages with every visit: 1. In Internet Explorer, on the Tools menu, click Internet Options. 2. In Internet Explorer 6.0, click Settings in the General tab, under Temporary Internet files.
FTViewPointQS.book Page 19 Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:55 AM 2 Setting up Site Edition (SE) web applications This chapter describes: how FactoryTalk® ViewPoint works in a Site Edition environment. how to set up the FactoryTalk ViewPoint Server to provide activation. how to create a new Site Edition web application. how to connect to an existing Site Edition web application.
FTViewPointQS.book Page 20 Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:55 AM FACTORYTALK VIEWPOINT QUICK START FactoryTalk ViewPoint Site Edition run-time web clients (thin clients) FactoryTalk View SE Clients (thick clients) Multiple browsers can connect to one SE web application simultaneously. Information network 1 FactoryTalk Directory server Publish displays to the ViewPoint Server.
FTViewPointQS.book Page 21 Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:55 AM 2 • SETTING UP SITE EDITION (SE) WEB APPLICATIONS The role of the FactoryTalk ViewPoint Server The FactoryTalk ViewPoint Site Edition setup program installs the FactoryTalk ViewPoint Server and FactoryTalk ViewPoint Administration software on the computer. The FactoryTalk ViewPoint Server hosts the currently published web application and provides ViewPoint client licenses to web browsers that connect to the application.
FTViewPointQS.book Page 22 Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:55 AM FACTORYTALK VIEWPOINT QUICK START To set up the FactoryTalk ViewPoint Server to provide licenses to connecting web browsers, perform these tasks: Download the FactoryTalk ViewPoint licenses you purchased to a FactoryTalk Activation server.
FTViewPointQS.book Page 23 Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:55 AM 2 • SETTING UP SITE EDITION (SE) WEB APPLICATIONS specified server can provide is displayed, as shown below in “Assigning licenses to the ViewPoint Server.” For comprehensive information about FactoryTalk Activation services, on the FactoryTalk ViewPoint Server computer, click Start > All Programs > Rockwell Software > FactoryTalk Activation > FactoryTalk Activation Manager, and then click Help.
FTViewPointQS.book Page 24 Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:55 AM FACTORYTALK VIEWPOINT QUICK START Creating a new Site Edition web application After installing the FactoryTalk ViewPoint software, to create a new Site Edition web application, connect to FactoryTalk ViewPoint Administration, and then perform these tasks: Select a FactoryTalk View SE application. Select graphic displays from the FactoryTalk View SE application. Publish the displays to the FactoryTalk ViewPoint Server.
FTViewPointQS.book Page 25 Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:55 AM 2 • SETTING UP SITE EDITION (SE) WEB APPLICATIONS INSTALLING MICROSOFT SILVERLIGHT 4 The user installing Microsoft Silverlight 4 must have administrative rights in Windows. If you have problems, contact your System Administrator or try logging on to Windows as a different user. 1.
FTViewPointQS.book Page 26 Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:55 AM FACTORYTALK VIEWPOINT QUICK START Creating a new Site Edition web application 1. In FactoryTalk ViewPoint Administration, on the Home page, click Publish displays to Web. To open other ViewPoint Administration pages, click the navigation bar. To create an SE web application, complete these three steps. To get Help with tasks on a page, click the Learn about... link. 2.
FTViewPointQS.book Page 27 Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:55 AM 2 • SETTING UP SITE EDITION (SE) WEB APPLICATIONS Site Edition (Local) to select an application from the FactoryTalk Local Directory on the computer running the FactoryTalk ViewPoint Server. 3. To select the graphic displays to publish, click 2 Select displays. 4. To begin the publishing process, click 3 Publish displays. After publishing is finished, to open the newly published web application, click Open Web application.
FTViewPointQS.book Page 28 Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:55 AM FACTORYTALK VIEWPOINT QUICK START where ComputerName is the name or IP address of the FactoryTalk ViewPoint Server computer. The initial display (or displays, if specified in a startup macro) selected for the web application should open. If you receive a message to install Microsoft Silverlight 4, for instructions, see “Installing Microsoft Silverlight 4”.
FTViewPointQS.book Page 29 Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:55 AM 2 • SETTING UP SITE EDITION (SE) WEB APPLICATIONS [/DL], [/DR], [/DT], [/DB], used to dock displays to the left, right, top, or bottom of the web browser window. [/Q1], [/Q2], [/Q3], [/Q4], used to set positions. /Q1: Upper right corner, /Q2: Upper left corner, /Q3: Lower left corner, and /Q4: Lower right corner. Equal (=) command is used to enter an expression from the command line or anywhere else a FactoryTalk View SE command is used.
FTViewPointQS.book Page 30 Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:55 AM FACTORYTALK VIEWPOINT QUICK START Set command writes a value to a tag. The syntax for the Set command is [&] Set [/V] [&] forces the command to be evaluated asynchronously, which can dramatically improve the performance of tag writes. [/V] performs read-back verify on the write.
FTViewPointQS.book Page 31 Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:55 AM 2 • SETTING UP SITE EDITION (SE) WEB APPLICATIONS FactoryTalk ViewPoint Site Edition text fonts FactoryTalk ViewPoint Site Edition uses Microsoft® Silverlight™ 4 technology to convert FactoryTalk View SE graphic displays for the web. Microsoft Silverlight 4 supports any font on your client computer for any text element. Fonts not available on your client computer will be replaced with Arial in the web application.
FTViewPointQS.book Page 32 Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:55 AM FACTORYTALK VIEWPOINT QUICK START Browsing the Help contents To browse the Help Contents, use any of these methods: On the Contents page, click books and topics listed in the navigation pane. To browse the topics in an open book, click the back and forward arrows on the navigation bar (shown on the left). To go back to the previous topic, click the web browser’s Back button.
FTViewPointQS.book Page 33 Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:55 AM 3 Setting up Machine Edition (ME) web applications This chapter describes: how FactoryTalk® ViewPoint works in a Machine Edition environment. how to create a new Machine Edition web application. how to connect to an existing Machine Edition web application.
FTViewPointQS.book Page 34 Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:55 AM FACTORYTALK VIEWPOINT QUICK START As shown in the previous illustration, the FactoryTalk ViewPoint Server software for a Machine Edition web application is installed on a PanelView™ Plus or PanelView Plus 6 operator terminal. New operator terminals contain the firmware with FactoryTalk ViewPoint Machine Edition. Operator terminals that contain previously installed software can be updated by upgrading the firmware on the terminal.
FTViewPointQS.book Page 35 Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:55 AM 3 • SETTING UP MACHINE EDITION (ME) WEB APPLICATIONS 3. In FactoryTalk ViewPoint Administration, click Publish Displays to Web, and then select and publish the displays. To create a Machine Edition web application, complete these two steps. To get Help, click Learn about... links. 4. Create the Machine Edition runtime application, and include FactoryTalk ViewPoint content. a.
FTViewPointQS.book Page 36 Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:55 AM FACTORYTALK VIEWPOINT QUICK START time application (.MER file) creation process, the published FactoryTalk ViewPoint content is converted to the version selected and included with the MER. In addition, the FactoryTalk ViewPoint server (which is a part of the operator terminal firmware) is also able to process and serve earlier versions of FactoryTalk ViewPoint content to the client (browser).
FTViewPointQS.book Page 37 Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:55 AM 3 • SETTING UP MACHINE EDITION (ME) WEB APPLICATIONS 7. Click Run Application to start the project. For more information on loading and running an application, see the PanelView Plus Terminal’s User Manual. The FactoryTalk ViewPoint client About menu contains information about the application version of ViewPoint content within a .MER file.
FTViewPointQS.book Page 38 Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:55 AM FACTORYTALK VIEWPOINT QUICK START a. In the web browser, click Click to Install. b. In the File Download - Security Warning dialog box, click Run. c. After the Silverlight.4.0.exe download finishes, in the Internet Explorer Security Warning dialog box, click Run. d. In the Install Silverlight 4 graphic, click Install now. e.
FTViewPointQS.book Page 39 Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:55 AM 3 • SETTING UP MACHINE EDITION (ME) WEB APPLICATIONS To go back to the previous topic, click the web browser’s Back button. Click the breadcrumb links displayed above the currently open Help topic. Enter keywords in the Search field. The Search feature in the Help uses the AND operator by default.
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