Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk View Machine Edition Users Guide - Manual (Page 569)

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Convert PanelBuilder 1400e applications
This appendix describes:
 Terms that are different in PanelBuilder 1400e and FactoryTalk View.
 Steps for converting PanelBuilder 1400e applications.
 Names of equivalent graphic objects in the two products.
 PanelBuilder 1400e graphic objects that are not supported in FactoryTalk View.
 PanelBuilder 1400e settings and controls that are not supported in FactoryTalk View.
 How communications are converted and which PanelBuilder 1400e communication
protocols are not supported in FactoryTalk View.
 Convert PanelBuilder 1400e Remote I/O communications.
 PanelBuilder 1400e graphic object features that are not supported in FactoryTalk
View, with information about how to achieve the same result when possible.
 Convert PanelBuilder 1400e expressions.
PanelBuilder 1400e applications are applications you create using PanelBuilder 1400e
Configuration Software for Windows. For information about converting applications from
PanelBuilder or PanelBuilder32, see Appendix B.
Terminology
These terms are different in PanelBuilder 1400e and FactoryTalk View.
In FactoryTalk View, the data source can be memory or a device such as a programmable
controller or an OPC server. FactoryTalk View writes values to and reads values from the
You can convert PanelView 1200 applications to PanelBuilder 1400e applications, and then
convert the PanelBuilder 1400e applications to FactoryTalk View Machine Edition applications.
PanelBuilder 1400e term FactoryTalk View term
screen display, graphic display
Optional Keypad Write Expression Optional Expression
programmable controller data source
control connection