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Release NotesUPDATE:2024/7/12

Additional Features

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  The Summary action now handles unreliable aggregated values (for example, showing them as *123 when data is missing).

• FA-Panel

  Added the IsEditing method to the Edit Box control.

• FA-Panel

  The following have been added to the Chart 2 control.
  • Added the DataAlpha / ColumnSize properties to the data properties.
  • Added the DrawOnFront property to the guideline properties.
  • A secondary sort key can now be specified in the SortType property.
  • Added the ValueDisplayFormat / ValueDisplayFormatPie properties to the data properties.
  • Added the ShowStackedValue property.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Added the CArrayToCsv route method.

• FA-Panel

  Added the HeaderMerge1 to HeaderMerge5 properties to the Summary Report Grid control. When set to T, the display of the report header section is merged.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  The following have been added to the OPC driver.
  • A wait time can be inserted after connecting to OPC and before performing AddGroup
  • After connecting to OPC, AddGroup is performed only after confirming with GetStatus that the server is ready

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  The SendKey route method now supports the following virtual key codes. A second argument (ignoreCapsLock) has also been added.
  • {NUMLOCK} - Num Lock key
  • {SCROLL} - Scroll Lock key

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Added the GetIMEState / SetIMEState route methods.

• FA-Panel

  Added the linkOS argument to the OpenTextKey / OpenTextKeyEdit methods.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  The Excel driver now supports specifying a relative path for the Excel file name.

• FA-Panel

  Added the GetPointValueX method to the Plot Graph and Trend Graph controls.

• FA-Panel

  Added ReferenceOffset to the aggregation log section of the summary master in the Summary action. The GetCurrentReferenceOffset method has also been added to the Summary Report Grid control.

• FA-Panel

  Added the GetSummaryMasterProperty method to the Summary Report Grid control.

• FA-Panel

  Added ReportTitleTotal / ReportTitleAverage / ReportTitleMax / ReportTitleMin / ReportTitleLoadFactor / ReportReferenceDateFormat to the aggregation log section of the summary master in the Summary action. The keywords "**F_TitleTotal", "**F_TitleAverage", "**F_TitleMax", "**F_TitleMin", "**F_TitleLoadFactor", "**F_ReferenceDate" and "**F_ReferenceDateStr" have also been added to the layout master.

• FA-Server

  FA-Client6 now supports display in English. Specifying "LocaleLanguage=en" in the client configuration file (FAClient6.txt) makes it display in English.

• FA-Server

  The common dialogs now support display in English. They are displayed in English when en is specified with Locale or LocaleLanguage.

• FA-Panel

  The second argument of the OpenWindowsDialog method now supports "font_simple". When "font_simple" is specified, a dialog with only the font name and size is displayed. In addition, when "font" is specified, "Effects - Color" and "Script", which are not used by the product, are now hidden.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Added the bWorkArea, monitorId and state arguments to the GetDisplaySize route method.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  A database schema can now be specified in the following functions.
  • ODBC driver
  • Logger (ODBC) action
  • Summary (ODBC) action
  • Historical Data Server (ODBC) action
  • Alarm Server (ODBC) action
  • Batch transfer (DB -> tag) action
  • Batch transfer (tag -> DB) action

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Added "Set the initial value to an indeterminate value" to the tag properties of the memory device driver.

• FA-Panel

  Added the ScrollSmallChangeX / ScrollLargeChangeX / ScrollSmallChangeY / ScrollLargeChangeY properties to the View control.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Added an ODBC timeout setting to the SQL Execution action.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Added the FormatPowerfactorPlus / FormatPowerfactorMinus properties to the Plot Graph, Trend Graph and Historical Trend Graph.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  In the Historical Data Server (CSV) action, the formats that can be recognised have been extended for the case where "The time is saved (specify the time format)" is selected for the time field and a format is specified.
  Example) %Y%m%d%H%M%S

• FA-Panel

  Added the Ascii route method.

Fixed point

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed an issue where an application error occurred when attempting to connect with AddTag or the like to a system property that does not exist on the tag.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed an issue where network tags could not be connected to.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed an issue where the result of a calculation field value was incorrect when re-aggregating with Summary (ODBC).
  (Occurs only in Rev13 and later)

• FA-Panel

  The following have been fixed regarding tooltip display in Panel Browser.
  • The tooltip was not displayed when the mouse traversed a form with no change in drawing
  • The tooltip was sometimes not displayed when the mouse traversed multiple grouped parts
  • The tooltip was sometimes not hidden even after the time set in the ToolTipTimer property had elapsed
  • The tooltip sometimes remained displayed even after the mouse left the area

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed an issue where an application error occurred when retrieving data with the ReadHistoricalData method after a non-existent field had been specified with the AddField method of the Historical Data control, for the Logger (ODBC) action and the Historical Data Server (ODBC) action.

• FA-Panel

  Fixed an issue where the video controller was not displayed when an H.264 camera was displayed with the Video Player parts library or the split screen library.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed an issue in the Summary action where aggregation could be executed earlier than the intended timing when "YEAR" was specified for SummaryUnit.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed an issue in the Grid control where the search button did not change to x when characters were entered in the header used for entering the search string (headerfilter).

• FA-Panel

  The following have been fixed in the TakeImageFile method of the Chart 2 control.
  • Output was in JPEG format even when bmp was specified for the second argument (fileFormat)
  • The chart was output without being scaled when T was specified for the fifth argument (zoom) and a size was specified for Width/Height

• FA-Server

  Fixed an issue where the GetUnitState method of FA-Engine returned 1 in a state where it should have returned 3.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed an issue in the Summary action where the report header was not displayed when the first two characters of its text were "**".

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed an issue where online authentication could fail for an online licence when connecting to the Internet through a proxy server.

• FA-Panel

  Fixed an issue in the Alarm action where, after the comment column ([CMx]) of the alarm master file was rewritten while a summary alarm was active, the comment from before the change was still displayed even after restarting the server.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed an issue where a communication error occurred with the KEYENCE Ethernet KV-7000/5000/3000 series driver on models whose I/O and internal relay (R) address range does not support 6 digits.
  (Occurs only in Rev14 and later)

• FA-Panel

  Fixed an issue in the Alarm action where an application error could occur when attempting to store data of 999 characters or more in the comment column.

• FA-Panel

  Fixed an issue in the Grid control where nothing was displayed when more than 30,000 characters were set in a cell. Text of 30,000 characters or more is now displayed with the part beyond 30,000 characters cut off.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed an issue where the first value-change event did not occur for a tag system property when going online again after going from online to offline.
  Example) when U01!Alive is set as a tag event

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed an issue where key presses could not be detected by the GetKeyState route method with the following arguments. With these arguments, the return value is not T while the keyboard key is held down, but T when the lock state is on (when the indicator light, if present, is lit).
  • 20 (Caps Lock key)
  • 144 (Num Lock key)
  • 145 (Scroll Lock key)

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed an issue where switching with the unit system property Virtual while Panel Server was in online fastest mode and then switching to online monitor reverted to the unit's Virtual setting. Likewise, switching with the unit system property Virtual during online monitor and then switching to online fastest mode reverted to the unit's Virtual setting.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed an issue where an application error could occur when "=" was specified instead of "==" in the middle of an expression in a bind format.

• FA-Panel

  Fixed an issue in the text keyboard common dialog where pressing an alphabet key on the screen while the Caps Lock key was ON produced the opposite case.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed an issue where the error details were garbled when a communication error occurred with the Allen-Bradley ControlLogix Ethernet connection driver.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed an issue in the Logger (CSV) action where a header row could be included in the middle of the log data when the destination storage was in an unstable state (for example, when the network drive connection was unstable).

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed an issue where writing a negative value when "Integer BCD (signed)" was specified as the tag type could write a value incremented by 1.
  (Occurs only in Rev11 and later)

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed an issue where the operation failed when 0 was specified as the time interval in the relative time format used in scripts and the like (for example "0mo").

• FA-Panel

  Fixed an issue in Panel Editor where the file needed to be saved after displaying a script with a breakpoint set, even though nothing had been changed afterwards.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed an issue where a value became incorrect when read with the LoadReportMaster method after a string containing a comma had been specified for the name argument of the AddField method of the Summary Report Grid control and saved with the SaveReportMaster method.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed an issue in the Script Ver1 action where an application error occurred when brackets were specified with incorrect syntax.
  Example) U01.F01.T01=(

• FA-Panel

  Fixed issues such as the display position of cell contents shifting and ruled lines disappearing when a screen with merged cells in the Grid control was displayed in STRETCH_FULL or STRETCH_KEEPRATE mode and the grid was scrolled.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed an issue in the Historical Trend control where not all data was displayed when the RealtimeUpdateMode or HistoricalUpdateMode property was set to ALL, the HDRequestType property was set to MULTIRAWDATA, and the pen data sources were set to span multiple actions.

• FA-Panel

  Fixed an issue in the Grid control where cells could be drawn outside the area when they were merged into a cell larger than the size of the control.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed an issue where the background colour became incorrect when a calculation expression was specified as the field name in the AddField method of the Summary Report Grid control.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed the browser so that, when DEFAULT is specified for the Locale route property, it follows the OS setting for the Windows display language rather than the OS regional setting.

• FA-Panel

  Fixed an issue where a form could not be opened by calling the OpenViewForm route method on a nested View control displayed inside another View control.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed the communication log output in the output log of the Patlite driver (message source "Driver") so that it is output when "Driver(Debug)" is checked.

• FA-Panel

  Fixed a memory leak in the MeasureStr route method.

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed an issue where the Historical Trend Graph became sluggish when left running in real-time display.
  (Occurs only in Rev15.0)

• FA-Panel, FA-Server

  Fixed an issue where the background of Panel Browser and Panel Editor could be drawn incorrectly as a result of the following Windows Updates released in early July 2024.
  
  • 2024-07 Cumulative Update for Windows 11 Version 23H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5040442)
  • 2024-07 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5040427)