Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk View Machine Edition Installation Guide - Manual (Page 57)

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Start automatically
You can set up FactoryTalk View ME Station to start automatically and run a particular
application when Microsoft Windows starts.
Run applications
Before you can run an application on the computer, you must transfer the application .mer
file to the computer.
Use sample applications
FactoryTalk View Studio for Machine Edition comes with sample applications that
highlight features of the product.
The sample applications are located at this path on the development computer (the
computer on which FactoryTalk View Studio is installed):
 (Windows XP and Windows Server 2003) \Documents and Settings\All
Users\Documents\RSView Enterprise\ME\HMI projects
 (Windows Server 2012, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Server
2008, and Windows Vista) \Users\Public\Public Documents\RSView
Enterprise\ME\HMI projects
HMI projects contains a folder for each sample application.
To run a sample runtime application:
1. Start FactoryTalk View Studio ME.
2. Open a sample application.
3. From the Application menu, select Create Runtime Application.
4. If desired, in the File name field, type a different name for the application file. The
default file name is the same name as the development application.
5. In the Save as type box, select what version of ME Station the application will run on.
The default setting is Runtime 8.0 application (*.mer).
6. In the Conversion to development application field, select the conversion option.
The default setting is Always allow conversion. If you select this option, the .mer file
can always be used to generate an .med file.
7. Click Save.
8. Start FactoryTalk View ME Station.