Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk View Machine Edition Users Guide - Manual (Page 586)

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numeric or string values) between FactoryTalk View and the machine that your
application is controlling. The general term data source is used unless specifically
discussing a programmable controller.
Summary of steps
Follow these steps to convert PanelBuilder applications:
1. Convert the application file, as described in the next section.
2. Specify additional project settings, as described on page 4-11.
For example, if you want the application to have a border around its graphic displays,
or to use a title bar, you can specify these options in the Project Settings editor.
3. If you select Convert to new window size, check the position of the graphic objects in
each display.
4. Set up communications and edit tags that don’t convert directly.
For more information, see page B-8.
5. Set up graphic object features that don’t convert directly.
For more information, see page B-10.
Convert PanelBuilder application files
Follow these steps to convert a PanelBuilder application file, with the extension .pba or
.pva, to an FactoryTalk View application file, with the extension .med. The original
PanelBuilder application file is not modified by the conversion.
Steps to take in PanelBuilder before you convert the application
1. Semicolons (;) in tag addresses are supported in PanelBuilder, but not in FactoryTalk
View Studio. Before importing the PanelBuilder application, in the PanelBuilder Tag
Editor, change the semicolons to colons (:).
2. Dashes (-) in tag names are supported in PanelBuilder, but not in FactoryTalk View
Studio. Before importing the PanelBuilder application, in the PanelBuilder Tag Editor,
locate any tags whose names contain dashes and duplicate the tags. Then rename the
tags without the dash, or replace the dash with an underscore (_). Once the tags have
been renamed, use the Tag Search feature to find the graphic objects using the original
tag names and edit the objects to replace the old tag names with the new ones.
You can convert the PanelBuilder application when you open FactoryTalk View Studio, or
once FactoryTalk View Studio is already open.