HMI
- All configuration options not directly associated with the HMI are now gathered together in a new dialog accessible from the menu command Configure.Project.General Operation.
- All configuration options associated with the HMI are now accessible from the menu command Configure.HMI Options.
- New explorer style interface for Configuration Options, Domains & Natures, Events, OPC communication, Multi-station, E-mail and Archives.
- Facility to modify ODBC requests by copying the QUERY.INI file from the DB folder to the Bin folder of the software.
- Addition of Chinese language for the HMI.
- Import/Export tool for strings used in the HMI (mimics, libraries etc.) to ease translation.
- Sending an E-mail depending on an event or on a SCADA Basic or VBA program.
- Tab controls on mimics so that you can display different pages in the same mimic.
- System look & feel option for the appearance of button shapes for text or rectangle objects.
- Ability to substitute variables of all types in symbols, not just temporary variables (variable%).
- Filtering data by SQL expression for the AIGrid (table) component.
- Monitoring variable values in the AIGrid (table) component.
- Trend Viewer: Indicating the period for which there is no data when 4,000 or more values are returned from a historical query.
- Trend Viewer: Option to cancel historical queries.
Managing variables
- Change to continuous monitoring of a variable for display. From now on you can only configure continuous monitoring if the station is a producer of that variable.
- Change in the way variables are managed when using and alarm synthesis (TREATMENT, GROUPALARM): To confirm the configuration without having defined all the variables in an alarm group.
- Change: In the process of acknowledging an alarm via a variable, that variable is now forced to 1 when the alarm is acknowledged. It is returned to zero when the alarm is On and Not Acknowledged. As before, the variable's transition to 1 causes acknowledgement of alarm. This feature is configurable by entering TREATMENT, ACKALARMBYVAR in the file VAREXP.DAT
- Change: In the process of masking an alarm, you can associate a Bit variable with an alarm so as to mask it. The masking and unmasking of an alarm also forces the value of the associated variable. This feature is configurable by entering TREATMENT, MASKALARMBYVAR in the file VAREXP.DAT
- Improvement to formatting of the values of Register variables in the backup file SAVED.DAT.
- Change: Processing of value X outside of the range [1, 1] for ACOS (X) and ASIN (X), for values of x<=0 for LOG (X), y =0 for x/y and MOD (X, Y). Their results will be displayed as “*” rather than 0 for the three types of expression: directly in an animation, in an expression model and in an expression on a variable.
Programming
Scada Basic
- Instruction APPLICATION mode LOAD: New optional parameter to start a program with a Start from path (Working Folder).
- Instruction CRONTAB mode NETWORKBROADCAST: New parameter to apply a CRON.DAT file either remotely or to all stations.
- Instruction EMAIL mode SEND: For sending an e-mail.
- Instruction EVENT modes ADDPROGEVT, DELPROGEVT, ADDEMAIL, DELEMAIL: To manage events that run SCADA Basic programs or send electronic messages.
- Instruction HISTORY mode UNIT, sub-modes SetReadServer and RestoreReadServer: Dynamically to assign the server station for an archive unit that handles read requests, and to restore the original configuration.
- Instruction HISTORY mode SETPRIMARY_UNIT, sub-mode Forceprimary_Unit: Enables you to specify the primary archive unit for reading the data.
- Instruction LAN modes SET_READ_SERVER and RESET_READ_SERVER: Option for dynamically choosing the server station in an association that runs requests for a client station.
- Instruction LAN mode SET_AVAILABLE_RATE: Dynamic option to change a server station's availability rate.
- Instruction LAN modes SET_MAIN_SERVER and RESET_MAIN_SERVER: Options to force a server station to primary and to remove the primary status of a specified primary server station.
- Instruction TREND mode REFRESH: Re-runs a request for historical data.
- Instruction WEBVUE mode LIST: To obtain the name of the remote host.
VBA
- Calling the Supervisor's VBA Help from the VBA Editor.
- New VBA function Project.SendEmail.
Communication
New protocols
- GEMLAN-T protocol - Release 2.0
- Hilscher NetLink protocol - Release 1.01: for Siemens Ethernet/MPI and Profibus-DP gateways.
- LEYCOMIV protocol - Release 1: Special protocol with a specific configurator.
- PPI protocol - Release 1.0: For Siemens S7-200 PLCs.
- S7-ISO protocol - Release 1.0: For Siemens S7 PLCs.
- SNCFIP protocol - Release 2.00: To support several FIP cards on the same PC.
- SPA-bus protocol - Release 2.0: For ABB devices.
- Unitelway Slave protocol - Release 2.1.
Cimway 7.23
- New parameter (Modem handshaking) on the network configuration dialog to enable/disable use of the Request To Send (RTS) signal when the COM port is open.
- New counts of Read/Write request flows on the CimWay frames. These counts are displayed in the communication selector for the CimWay equipment.
- Optimizing subscription times in CimWay where the frames have a null scanning period.
- New DLL for access to reading/writing of CimWay frames as well as modification of the frame address, so as to allow access by VBA.
- New system variables:
- SYSTEM.EQT.ACTIVEFRAMECOUNT: This variable contains the number of active frames. A frame is active when at least one variable is linked to the frame.
- SYSTEM.EQT.OKEQTCOUNT: This variable contains the number of accessible devices. It replaces the system variable SYSTEM.EQT.OK_NUMBER (which is updated for compatibility if it exists in the project).
Improvement for existing protocols
- IPPAM protocol - Release 1.9: Store the time-stamp in the cyclical check frame.
- IPPOSM protocol - Release 1.8: To obtain various analytical data from a SMP 250 mass spectrometer using a TCP/IP connection.
- S7 IP MASTER protocol - Release 4.05: The MW address range has been increased from 255 to 65535.
- SAIA protocol - Release 4.0: The DLL supports the Serial SBUS protocol as well as IP mode.
- XBUS IP MASTER/SLAVE protocol - Release 4.13:
- The MODBUS default address is 1 (no longer 0) for XBUS IP MASTER.
- New WAGO_DALI equipment.
- New Reals and Double words in Time-stamped mode.
OPC Client
- Runtime OPC XML.
- OPC Mapping.
- Updating of a variable's value even when the Quality indicates that it is bad (i.e. the QUALITY_GOOD = 0xC0 bits are not set).
- Optimized multi-task processing on remote OPC servers.
- New feature for monitoring that an OPC server is working.
LNS
- New facility for customized extracts of LONWORKS.
Multi-Station
- Managing associations of historical data servers.
- Managing lists of historical data servers.
- When a Trend request occurs in a multi-station network, the primary unit is transferred to the historical data producer. The SCADA Basic modes SETPRIMARY_UNIT / SETPRIMARY and FORCEPRIMARY allow the unit to be used as the server to be selected from the client station.
- New NS LAN status for external variables when those are no longer accessible from the station or association that produced them. From now on, such a variable will be shown in the Variable Selector as NS COM LAN.
- In a multi-network, detection of a failed connection has been improved.
- New system variables:
- SYSTEM.<ClientStationNumber>.<ServerStationNumber>.VARREFRESH_COMPLETED: Produced by <ClientStationNumber> for each server identified <ServerStationNumber> to which the client is connected. It changes to 0 on reconnection to the server <ServerStationNumber> and to 1 when all variables produced by <ServerStationNumber> have been refreshed. <ServerStationNumber> represents the identifier of a station or an association.
- SYSTEM.<AssociationName>.<StationName>.MAIN becomes 1 when the station <StationName> is primary in the association <AssociationName>, else 0.
- SYSTEM.<AssocNumber>.<StationNumber>.ACTIVE_NUMBER that contains the identifier of the remote station that is using station <StationNumber> as the active server of the association <AssocNumber>.
- SYSTEM.<StationName>.OK_NUMBER that contains the identifier of the remote station <StationName>.
- SYSTEM.<AssocNumber>.<ServerNumber>.SWITCH.PASSIVE_COMPLETED: When the server identified as <ServerNumber> in the association <AssocNumber> goes from active to passive, this variable becomes 1 when all of the server's variables have been refreshed. It is forced to zero at the start of that switching.
- SYSTEM.<StationNumber>.<AssocNumber>.ACTIVESTATION: This Text variable contains the name of the remote server station belonging to the association <AssocNumber> that updates the station identified as StationNumber, i.e. the active server for the station StationNumber.
Web Services Toolkit
- Supports the transfer of SSL V2 (Secure Sockets Layer) data to ensure the security of data transmitted via Internet (HTTPS).
- Web Services have been standardized.
- Supply of two Web portals with the demonstration project SVWEBDEMO. The portals can be customized to suit your project. (See the document ConfigurationGuide_SV_WSDemo.doc for more information on customizing the demonstration Web portals.)
Webvue 3.1
- Supports the transfer of SSL V2 (Secure Sockets Layer) data to ensure the security of data transmitted via Internet (HTTPS).
- Optimization of data read and write, plus refreshing of mimics and viewers.
- Russian as a presentation language.
- Chinese as a presentation language.
- Support for arc and sector shapes.
- Support for transparent color.
- Support for the SCADA Basic instruction TREE.
- Support of the Beep on alarm.
- Trend Viewer: Support for the legend and printing Compatibility of timescales and values.
- A parameter in the WebVue configuration to set the polling period for Trend Viewer, Log Viewer and Alarm Viewer.
- System policy used if the IpQueryLevel parameter in the file WEB\WEBVUE.DAT of the project is set to 4096.
Smart Generator Component
- Automatic generation of the supervisory applications for these software platforms: Schneider Electric - Unity, Wago - CoDeSys, plus a generic interface for XML.
Development Kit
- Update of the kit for accessing variables. Version 5.00 is incompatible with previous versions. It is necessary to include the new SVMGRAPI2.H file, to restore the missing callbacks and to recompile the whole set. These new features enable you to make up an access kit in an environment different from that of Visual Studio:
- __stdcall for all of the methods and functions
- pragma pack 1
- Addition of a method SetSimulatedVariables for modifying the parameter Simulated across all variables.
Miscellaneous
- Sentinel Driver version 7.3.0.
- Management of the Web client on a PC with a server encoded key only (limited to 1 mimic).
- In the Project Selector: an option for selecting a project name longer than 12 characters.
- New demonstrations for the libraries and the Web Service.
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