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Expanding Functionality with Visual BasicFactoryTalk View SE

Avery MartinSupport EngineerNovember 30, 2017

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Agenda

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Demonstration

Visual Basic Editor IDE

What is Visual Basic for Applications

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What is Visual Basic?

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Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is an implementation of Microsoft's event-driven programming language Visual Basic 6

Similar to programming in C Variable declaration Subroutines For, If Then, Case Statements

Allows for Extra Functionality in View SE. Launch Display in SE based on Tag Value

Outside of the native FT View SE Development Environment Not formally supported with Toolkit Activation

What is Visual Basic?

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Launching VB Editor

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The Visual Basic Editor

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VBA Demo 22007

Synopsis - Whenever a digital tag in the controller goes high I would like a display to open on my View SE Client.

Environment FactoryTalk View SE v9.0 Network Distributed Application FTD/HMI/RSLE hosted on the same pc. (Windows Server 2012 R2) Remote Engineering Workstation (Windows 10 Pro)

Tips Ensure to expose numeric display to VBA control. Cache the display if you would like it run in the background

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VBA Demo 22114

Synopsis – I would like read in HMI or Direct reference tag values into the visual basic environment perform some arithmetic in Visual Basic and then write the new values back to the HMI or Direct reference tag.

Environment FactoryTalk View SE v9.0 Network Distributed Application FTD/HMI/RSLE hosted on the same pc. (Windows Server 2012 R2) Remote Engineering Workstation (Windows 10 Pro)

Tips Make sure to install wrapper module Make sure shortcut names and tags are named correctly according to

VB code

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VBA Demo 48785

Synopsis – I would like to acknowledge all of my FactoryTalk Alarm and Event alarms with the push of a button.

Environment FactoryTalk View SE v9.0 FTAE v2.90 Network Distributed Application FTD/HMI/RSLE hosted on the same pc. (Windows Server 2012 R2) Remote Engineering Workstation (Windows 10 Pro)

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VB tips and tricks

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Acronyms

VBA – Visual Basic for Applications IDE – Integrated Development Environment HMI – Human Machine Interface FTD – FactoryTalk Directory RSLE – RSLinx Enterprise FTAE – FactoryTalk Alarms and Events

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Questions