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Unsupported PanelBuilder 1400e Objects and Features

PanelBuilder “e” Settings and Controls not converted to Machine Edition

  • Transfer Inhibit control
  • Transfer Request control
  • Transfer Status control
  • PLC Controlled Relay control
  • PLC Controlled Audio control
  • Message control
  • Message Handshake control
  • Polarity control configured to display a minus sign with a negative number
  • Acknowledge to PLC control (if the Alarm Acknowledge is set to Bit)
  • Remote Alarm Operation Hold Time; the 1400e Remote Alarm Ack Control Hold Time will be used for all alarm hold times.
  • Remote Alarm Control Delay Time. If an Ack control is assigned in FactoryTalk View, there is no delay time between the alarm acknowledgment and the Ack control being set.
  • Bit alarm acknowledgment
  • Blinking alarm messages
  • Alarm relays
  • Screen security settings. FactoryTalk View uses a different method to assign security to displays.
  • Date and time settings. ME date and time settings are based on the run-time locale settings, which will have to be set after conversion.
  • Any characters in PanelBuilder screen names that are invalid in ME will be replaced with an underscore "_" character.
  • Expressions because some PanelBuilder 1400e expression syntax is not supported in FactoryTalk View Studio, all PanelBuilder expressions are disabled during conversion.

PanelBuilder “e” Objects not converted to Machine Edition

  • Scrolling List Object - including Cursor List, Multistate Indicator Object List, Local Message Object List, and Numeric Data Display Object List
  • Set Bit Cursor Point
  • GoTo Configure Mode Button

PanelBuilder “e” Graphic Object Features not converted to Machine Edition

Unsupported feature

Object

Notes

Blinking wallpaper objects

Image, text, arc, ellipse, line, panel, rectangle, wedge

If you want an object to blink at run time, unlock the wallpaper.

Fixed Position and PLC Controlled decimal display options

Numeric Input Cursor Point Numeric Data Display

Assign an expression to the object's Value control to achieve the same result.

PLC Controlled and Decimal Key Controlled decimal point options

Numeric Input Cursor Point Numeric Keypad Enable Button

Assign an expression to the object's Optional Expression control to achieve the same result.

Retain Cursor on Cancel.

Numeric Input Cursor Point

This is an application wide setting and not a setting of the individual cursor point objects.

Initial state values

Maintained Push Button

Multistate Push Button

Control List Selector

To set initial state values at startup, create a macro to set the appropriate tag values for the objects' controls.

Blinking pens

Trend

FactoryTalk View pens do not blink.

Date labels on the X axis

Trend

The date is displayed in the title.

Background screen plotting of pens using expressions

Trend

FactoryTalk View converts PanelBuilder 1400e's background plotting by adding the tags assigned to the pens to a data log model. However, expressions cannot be added to a data log model.

Object names

All objects

Object names are replaced with default FactoryTalk View names. PanelBuilder 1400e names are used for the object's description.

Caption and image placement

All objects

Some image captions may be truncated, clipped or may overlap images.

Multiple image labels

All objects

If a PanelBuilder 1400e object used multiple image labels, only the top left image label is converted.

Dash-Dot-1 and Dash-Dot-Dot-1 Line Styles

Arc, Wedge, Line, Ellipse and Scale

Objects with these line styles will be converted to objects with a dash line style. At run time on a PanelView Plus or PanelView Plus CE terminal, they will appear with a dot line style, since PanelView Plus or PanelView Plus CE do not support any other line styles.

See also

Import and conversion of an application

Convert PanelBuilder 1400e Expressions

PanelBuilder 1400e to Machine Edition object mappings