Roboticsware Support

Release NotesUPDATE:2022/4/15

Additional Features

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  The Send Mail action, the Alarm Server action and the SendMail method now support TLSv1.1/TLSv1.2/TLSv1.3 as the encryption method used when "Use an encrypted connection (SSL)" is selected.
  (This resolves the problem where mail could not be sent through the Internet service provider OCN.)

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  A variable can now be specified for the unit-side port number of the Ethernet communication driver.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  In the KEYENCE KV-8000/7000/5000/3000 series (Ethernet) driver, the number of digits of the R device has been extended to 6.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Panel Server has been extended so that writing "online_normal" to the registry
  "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Roboticsware\FA-Panel6 Server Ver6\Online\OnlineRequest" (REG_SZ) while running in online fastest mode switches it to online normal mode. This can be used as an emergency measure if the taskbar icon becomes inoperable while running in online fastest mode.
  * For FA-Server6, replace the FA-Panel6 part of the registry path with FA-Server6.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Methods for calculating the median (Math.Median) and the mode (Math.Mode) are now supported.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  The Summary action now supports Excel 2021.

• FA-Panel

  Added LabelFont to the guideline properties of the Chart 2 control.

• FA-Panel

  Added the GetChildTags/SearchTags route methods.

• FA-Panel

  Fixed an issue where, when an OUT bind with a WATCH parameter was written in GroupValue, the OUT bind was executed (writing back the original value) if the IN bind value did not become the written value within the period specified by WATCH after the write by the OUT bind.
  Example)
  IN:U01.F01.T01;OUT:U01.F01.T02;WATCH:3

Fixed point

• FA-Panel

  Fixed an issue where the OnGroupValueChanged event did not occur when GroupValue was changed from a script while the toggle button was assigned to a group.
  (Occurs only in Rev14. Fixed in Rev14.1)

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed an issue where sending mail failed in the Send Mail action, the Alarm Server action and the SendMail method when the authentication method was "SMTPAUTH_LOGIN" or "SMTPAUTH_PLAIN" and a password of 67 characters or more was specified.
  (Fixed in Rev14.1)

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed an issue where the server settings could not be saved to a file when the "Parameter" string specified in the "Execution action" of a Panel Server event contained "#".
  (Fixed in Rev14.1)

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed an issue where sending mail through Microsoft's SMTP server (smtp.office365.com) failed in the Send Mail action, the Alarm Server action and the SendMail method.
  (Fixed in Rev14.1)

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed an issue where, when TermOfValidity was specified in the calculation field master of the Summary action, unknown data was added outside the specified period on re-aggregation.

• FA-Panel

  Fixed an issue where the client file path (value[5]) was not passed in the value argument of OnCommonEvent, which occurs when the SendFile/ReceiveFile route method is executed asynchronously.

• FA-Panel

  Fixed an issue where the menu was displayed when the ShowMainMenu method of the menu control was called during full-screen display with the ShowFullScreenMenu route property set to FALSE.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed an issue in the MODICON driver where the settings made under "Other detailed settings" on the "Communication details" tab of "Communication settings" were not applied when going online immediately after opening the file, and were applied only after going offline and back online once.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed an issue in the MODICON and SIEMENS drivers where the update flag did not turn ON even when the settings made under "Other detailed settings" on the "Communication details" tab of "Communication settings" were changed. Because of this, for example, closing Panel Server after making a change did not display the save confirmation dialog, and the settings were discarded.

• FA-Panel

  Fixed an issue in Panel Browser where stretching did not work depending on the timing when the stretch mode of OpenDialog/OpenModalDialog was set to RESIZE_FULL or RESIZE_KEEPRATE.

• FA-Panel

  Fixed an issue in the Chart 2 control where the values displayed on the graph could be truncated below the displayed number of digits.

• FA-Panel

  Fixed an issue in Panel Editor where an application error occurred when double-clicking a function button (fncOpenDialog) placed on a screen in Rev12.1 or earlier to open its property edit dialog.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Added "AddingCountIgnoreType" to the common property section of the summary master of the Summary action. The default behaviour has also been changed to TYPE1.
  * The behaviour was changed from TYPE1 to TYPE2 in Rev13. However, as there were many requests for TYPE1, Rev14 restored TYPE1, which was the default behaviour up to Rev12. To use TYPE2 on Rev14 or later, add the line "AddingCountIgnoreType=TYPE2" to the summary master.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed an issue in the Daily/Monthly/Yearly Report action where the boundary value became 2147483647 when "Integrated counter value" was selected for the daily report statistical processing and a value of 2147483648 or more (the boundary value of the ring counter) was set.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed an issue in the Daily/Monthly/Yearly Report action where the aggregated value was incorrect when "Integrated counter value" was selected for the daily report statistical processing and 4294967296 was set as the boundary value of the ring counter. (The maximum value that can be set for the ring counter boundary value is 4294967296.)

• FA-Panel

  Fixed an issue in the Summary Report Grid control where the standard sheet was used even when the sheet name of the layout master file was specified in the reportLayoutMasterSheet argument (the 14th argument) of the CreateSubReport method to create an Excel sub-report.

• FA-Panel

  Fixed an issue in the Remote Query Database and Direct Query Database controls where the value (string) retrieved by the QuerySQL method was truncated when the database field was specified as the "varchar(MAX)" type.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed an issue in the Logger (ODBC) action where the current time was always written when a tag field was added and the database field was of a date type.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  In the MODICON (ModbusTCP) driver, when "Function code 16 is supported" was unchecked under "Communication settings -> Communication details -> Other detailed settings", multiple words could not be written at once unless "HR holding register maximum write size" was set to 1 word. This has been fixed so that writing is possible regardless of the "HR holding register maximum write size" setting.

• FA-Panel

  Fixed an issue in the Panel Browser debug screen where the following symptoms occurred when a script had 3000 lines or more. - Line numbers beyond line 3000 were not displayed - The cursor did not behave correctly when stepping into lines beyond line 3000

• FA-Panel

  Fixed an issue where information on forms added with AddResourceFile could not be retrieved with the GetMenuCandidate and GetAuthCandidate route methods.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed an issue in the FTP transfer action where the script set under "When processing fails" in the action's detailed settings was executed even when the action succeeded.

• FA-Panel

  Fixed an issue where the reset output tag of the Demand action sometimes did not turn OFF after turning ON.
  (Occurs only in Rev9 and later)

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed an issue where an application error occurred when a Mod operation was performed with 0 (for example, 123 Mod 0) using the Mod operator in the Script Ver1 action.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed an issue in the Logger (ODBC) action where, with "Write "NULL"" selected as the value to use on a communication error, NULL continued to be written even after recovery once a communication error had occurred.

• FA-Panel

  Fixed an issue where the guideline label (Label property) of the Chart 2 control was sometimes not displayed.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed an issue in the Logger (ODBC) action where an error occurred in the SQL statement when "SQLServer" was selected as the database type and the database field type was "bit".

• FA-Panel

  Fixed an issue where entering "rtsp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/xxx" in the File property of the Video Player control converted it to "rtsp:\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx\xxx".

• FA-Panel

  Fixed an issue in the Summary Grid control where the cell at the right edge was sometimes not displayed even when the horizontal scroll bar was operated, if the form was opened with the stretch mode set to STRETCH_FULL/STRETCH_KEEPRATE.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed an issue where an application error occurred when 512 characters or more were written to a string tag of a memory device tag (holding values in "Format 2") or a structured tag (Type2).

• FA-Panel

  Fixed an issue where an error occurred when the QuerySQL method was executed on the Direct Query Server or the Remote Query Server to retrieve data from PostgreSQL with the column type set to "text" and only one character of data stored.

• FA-Panel

  Fixed an issue in the Video Recorder control where the recorded video was cut off partway when x in "from x seconds before to y seconds after the condition is met" was longer than the file split unit time (for example, the file split unit was set to 1 minute and 300 seconds before was specified).

• FA-Panel

  Fixed an issue where, when the Alarm (ODBC) action was used, alarms were not displayed if the number of alarms matching the conditions of the SubscribeHistorical method of the Alarm Grid Client control was greater than or equal to the number specified by showRecordCnt.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed an issue where, when a project was run with an empty tag specified in a setting that should specify a tag - in a script (AddTag and so on), a bind, a server-side action and the like - other correctly specified tags could also fail with "Can't add tag" on the server side and not work correctly.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed an issue where an application error occasionally occurred when Panel Server went offline.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed an issue where array values were lost in the upgrade process that runs the first time a project operated on Ver5 is started on Ver6, when array tags existed in a memory device with "Hold value (Format 2)" selected.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed an issue where the requests added with the ReadRequest/WriteRequest methods were not cleared when the ReadRequestRefresh/WriteRequestRefresh method failed; they are now cleared even on failure. Note that, regardless of success or failure, when the ReadRequestRefresh/WriteRequestRefresh method is called again the requests must be added again with the ReadRequest/WriteRequest methods.
  Example)

  ::WriteRequest("U01.F01.T01",1);
  ::WriteRequest("U01.F01.T02",2);
  if (::WriteRequestRefresh() == F)
  {
    ::WriteRequest("U01.F01.T01",1);
    ::WriteRequest("U01.F01.T02",2);
    ::WriteRequestRefresh();  // To retry, WriteRequest must be called again
  }
  

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed an issue where the previously opened file was not opened after restarting when the KeepProcess property of Panel Browser was set to True and Panel Browser terminated abnormally.
  (Occurs only in Rev13)