A step-by-step guide to create an ODBC Connection:


How to create HTTP server for ODBC connection from local desktop?
After setting up HTTP server, I know how to create a DSN.

Please help to achieve HTTP server setup.

Very simply, we are trying to split an input word into two bytes, hi & lo, but the word byte doesn't appear in functions or expressions or as far as we can determine.

This must be simple to some!

Any suggestions please

Ian

Is there a way to remove the Notpad's from the popup HDV.
For Example if each site has a notepad in the Folder it shows all them in the HDV. i am Okay with having the System Notes in there but it is just getting out of control with every other one.

Stop assigning the fourth octet of the PLC's IP address to 1.

That's where the router goes!

And no you can't assign that to the HMI either!

Hi,

I would like to add a button to spawn an external program.

Is this supported in the Lite version?

Generally, how does one find widgets -- is there a search, or do you just have know where they are?

Thanks!

Hello, I'm working on a legacy VTS (7.1.1 on Windows 7) and the PC keeps losing virtual ports - different ones each time.
Any suggestions why and how to stop it? We're upgrading shortly. Will the problem go away on Windows 10?

I had a question about Allen Bradley tag data types. I was wondering how you would define a Real or Dint using VTScada Light

Thanks

I want to control the opacity of objects on screen like if the object is linked to a tag and tag is enabled, the screen should display the object. If we disable the tag, it should disable showing the object on the screen as well. How to do it.

Can anyone point me in the direction to extract two INT from a DINT?

Hi,

I am having an issue connecting to a Koyo DL330 PLC via serial. I have it setup with the correct station addresses and COM port parameters, and it appears to be reading my register R16 correctly. However, writing to the tag fails. Sniffing the serial packets, it appears that the driver is trying to pull data from 2 8-bit registers when I only want to pull from one and I believe this is w

Some people have been having an issue connecting to the Microsoft Store and downloading the Excel plugin. A lot of these we have found are because of the Excel build. Note that Excel can be up to date with security patches but still be behind on builds.

The add-in currently requires what is known as the ExcelApi 1.4 requirement set which is available in build 7870.2024 or later, so although y

We are trying to create a report for documenting the duration a sewage lift station is overflowing on a day to day basis.

We have a calculation tag setting the overflow setpoint, and an alarm tag running the trigger of "wet well level > setpoint". Followed by a logger tag monitoring the state of the alarm tag, logging at every 60 sec.

When we run daily total reports on the logger

So... in the past Calculation tags have been used to create Color tags.
With VT12 this can be done using the Universal IO Tag: String Calculation but it seems that most objects object to picking String calculation tags { see what I did there }. When picking a color for a box and you select tag and go to choose a tag, it looks for numeric tags. Interestingly, you can select the tag in the lef

The VTScada help file indicates that the RadioButtons function should be called using the Dot notation:

\System.RadioButtons(.....);
When I attempted this implementation the radio buttons did not show up in my display. After verifying my variables I tried using the "\" notation:

\System\RadioButtons(......);
This worked.

(Full Disclosure: I'm using the VT11 era "CompletedTutorial" ap

Is there a way to resize the horizontal buttons widget for a selector switch tag? It seems like it would be standard practice to have some user set-able parameters in the properties dialog for setting the width and height of the buttons, but there is not and the buttons are just too small.

Does VT have the ability to publish data to an MQTT broker?

Do you have a timeline to implement Client Drivers for MQTT and OPC UA?

Not that I really want to use MQTT but these two look like the future of interoperability between PLC platforms, serial servers, and older oddball devices.

UPDATED ANSWER - YES! In addition to OPC DA, VTScada now supports OPC UA Clients in VTScada 12. See post below.

I want to write an expression on "digital status" tag. According to changing in value of digital status tag, different text should be shown.
As like, If digital status tag value is 0 then it should shows 'disabled', If its value is 1 then it shows 'running', if tag value is 2 then it shows 'blocked', if the value is 3 then it shows 'unknown'.

I want to write an expresion in tags. How can i

Looking for the best way to configure resolutions between 10 pack applications and various client size displays. We have 15" 1024x768 HMIs at our panels, these using the 10 packs so we can filter by panel number. Then we have 27" and 32" monitors in our operator room running the main application on the VIC, and then programmer staff use 24" monitors.

Here is a look at how we have one of the