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This document contains information about version 8.2 of the Supervisor:

See the Release Notes for more information about software changes since version 8.10, in particular a list of modifications and known issues.

What’s new in this version?

This section lists all major new features and enhancements.

General

End-user

Designer

The Supervisor is now shipped on DVD.
A tool is provided to split the contents of the DVD onto 2 separated CDs for target PCs that do not have a DVD drive.

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Microsoft® Windows Vista support – x86 (32-bit) and x64 (64-bit) architectures.

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Microsoft® Windows Server 2008 partial support* – x86 (32-bit) and x64 (64-bit) architectures.
*Only Terminal Server and web-based features are validated

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Support for Microsoft® Windows authentication based on domain controllers and Active Directory to allow your domain users to login as users of the Supervisor.

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Central project management and version control tool fully reworked (bug fixes and new Look & Feel).

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New presentation language: Japanese.

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The Component Registration Utility for use when multiple versions of the Supervisor are installed on the same PC. Just run it prior to launch a version to automatically re-register the Supervisor’s components as the installation process does.
A component registration check is now made during the Supervisor’s startup.

 

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A new section can be found on the DVD – The Supervisor’s Add-ons. It contains a set of complementary tools. The 2 first ones available with this version are:

  • The WebScheduler version 1.0 - It enables you to run scheduled tasks and configure them locally or via Internet.
  • Dream Report® version 3.3 - A powerful tool that will help you design, generate and publish your reports.

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HMI

End-user

Designer

Navigator – It enables the end-user to display a mimic thumbnail.
Changing the targeted position in the thumbnail by mouse drag automatically scrolls the mimic and vice-versa, scrolling and zooming in the mimic automatically change the position in the thumbnail.
This new feature is designed for both ‘smart navigation’ in runtime mode and as a help in design mode for very large mimics.

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Trend viewer - Auto-focus.                           

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Improvement in mimic panning, horizontal scrolling and mouse action customization.

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Tooltips in design mode display properties of the object the mouse is over (branch, object name etc.).

 

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New Text graphic object for 3D mimics.
Provides for the display 3D texts, register values, labels…

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A new option allows highlighting graphic objects that are supporting control zone animations.

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A new property permits the inhibition of the mimic background color for printing.

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Historical Data management

End-user

Designer

Maintenance Plan to automate and synchronize HDS database maintenance tasks: Export, Purge…

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Alarms management

End-user

Designer

It is now possible to display the timestamp for all alarm events on a single line in the alarm viewer: On-Acknowledge-Off.

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SCADA Basic scripting

End-user

Designer

New SCADA Basic script editor:

  • Color highlighting to facilitate script edition,
  • Auto-completion (IntelliSense®)support for an easy and error-free script editing,
  • Contextual help for language instructions (verbs),
  • Code snippets to automate insertion of all usual piece of code (program and function comments, loop, conditional statements, new sub…),
Selection and insertion of Supervisor objects’ name instead of typing them in (variable names, branches, mimic names).

 

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VBA scripting

End-user

Designer

Trend viewer objects can now be scripted using VBA.

 

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Communication

End-user

Designer

Protocols

 

 

Support for temporary LNS monitor sets.

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New protocols:
          - CwIpCitilog for communication with Citilog Video matrix.

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Networking

 

 

A server can now belong to more than one association. It opens the Supervisor to distributed architectures where multiple local servers are backed-up by one or more centralized servers.

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3-level architectures are now supported - A client station can be used as a gateway for the 3rd level.

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WebVue

 

 

Microsoft® IIS 7 support for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.

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New presentation languages: Chinese and Japanese.

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Bug fix and many improvements in graphical objects and animation support, in particular the Trend Viewer.

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Configuration environment

End-user

Designer

Improvement of the environment:
          - Look & Feel.
          - Performance.

 

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Dialog boxes rework for the following objects configuration: LNS, DDE and User rights management.

 

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For OPC, LNS and DDE communication objects, status information has been added, as well as a direct control for starting and stopping data exchanges. This can be of great help during testing and commissioning phases.

 

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Smart Generator

 

 

Smart Generator for FactoryLink® helps you convert your FL applications to Supervisor applications.

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Smart Generator for LNS completely automates the configuration of communication objects and variables using your LonWorks® database and device templates.

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Smart Generator for CAD enables you to generate mimics by importing DWG and DXF files. This all-in-one tool allows you to clean up the original CAD file in order to generate a simplified background image (change colors - filters on Xref, layers and blocks), substitute CAD blocks with graphic symbols, and generate fully animated mimics.

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Smart Generator for ISaGRAF® completely automates the configuration of communication objects and variables using your ISaGRAF® configuration database in order to exchange data using the ISaGRAF® OPC server.

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Smart Generator for WAGO-Codesys® completely automates the configuration of communication objects and variables using your WAGO® configuration in order to exchange data using Modbus over TCP/IP.

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System requirements

Operating Systems

Only operating systems from the Microsoft® Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2008 Server and Windows 2003 Server families are supported.
Qualified and fully operational:

Operational but may have limitations in use. Please contact technical support before using any of these:

NOT supported:

For all operational editions of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, both 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) processor architectures are supported.

Editions of Windows XP and Windows Vista designated as 'N' or 'KN' versions include the same functionality as the corresponding standard editions, except that they do not include Windows Media Player and related technologies such as Windows Movie Maker.

Browser

Required:


Recommended MINIMUM PC configuration

DVD-ROM - Required for installation only (or split into CD-ROMs – see the Installation help)

The above represent the minimum requirements. For advice on specific applications please contact Technical Support.

For information about the Windows’ user rights required to install and run the Supervisor see the Installation help.

Installation

See Installation help for more information and help about pre-requisites and the installation process itself.


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