ProcessLogix R500.1 Selection Guide

Enhancements Description

Engineering Tools Enhancements • History Configuration

• Cross Reference and Wiring Improvement

• Compare Parameters

• SCM Memory Enhancements

• Server Scripting

Server Enhancements

New Alarm/Event subsystem • Flexible filtering, sorting and layout

• Common presentation for Alarms, Events, Journal, etc.

Updated Station & HMIWeb Display Builder • Improved menu/toolbar configuration

• Support for IKB/OEP Operator keyboards

• Define which monitor to start on, on multi-monitor systems.

• Faceplates

• Chart object

• Hyperlink support

• Rotation of static text on HMIWeb displays

• Third-party HTML displays

• Simplified appearance of HMIWeb object model in script editor

• Multiple Static Stations

Plant Data Model Enhancements • Supports 40 character Point ID's

Updated OPC Support • OPC Alarm and Event Server

Windows 2000 Security • Optionally allows the use of Windows user accounts for ProcessLogix 

operators.

Updated System Displays • Supports screen resolutions of 1280x1024

Updated Application Development • Service Pack 5 for Microsoft Visual Studio v6.0 has been qualified for 

use with ProcessLogix.

• Includes Microsoft Visual C/C++ v6.0 and Microsoft Visual Basic v6.0.

Hardware Enhancements

Additional Module Support The following modules have been qualified for use with ProcessLogix:

• 1756-ENET/B

• 1756-ENB/T

• 1794-IF4I

• 1794-OF4I

• 1756-DNB

• 1757-ABRIO

Engineering Tools 

Enhancements

Server Enhancements New Alarm/Event subsystem

The new Alarm/Event subsystem in this release of ProcessLogix can manage 

notifications from ProcessLogix and third party OPC systems. The alarm 

management presentation includes common presentation components for 

Alarms, Messages, Journal, etc. based on HMIWeb technologies. These 

displays support flexible filtering, sorting and layout. This new subsystem 

utilizes Microsoft's SQL Server for the Event Store. Optional journalling of 

full user name is also supported.

Table 1.B Enhancements to Engineering Tools 

Enhancement Description

History Configuration Historical data collection, Group display assignment, and Trend 

display assignment are now standard part of CB point 

configuration.

Cross Reference and 

Wiring Improvement

This feature improves the wiring algorithm and results in better 

wiring paths during control configuration. The cross reference 

provides an optional wire label that clearly identifies wire paths 

as they cross page boundaries.

Compare Parameters This enhancement is provided as an option during download of a 

CM/SCM or selection of CMs/SCMs. It allows reading 

parameters from the controller and comparing them with the 

Monitoring or Project version. If this option is selected, a dynamic 

form shows all parameters that differ; each of them has a 

selection box indicating if the user wants to override the value or 

not. Those parameters selected to override are sent to the 

controller.

SCM Memory 

Enhancements

CEE memory is now optimized for the actual contents of SCM 

expressions instead of a maximum sized allocation, resulting in a 

memory savings of 30-35% for the average sized SCM 

configuration.

Server Scripting Server scripts can now be attached to CM's. Server Scripts allow 

VBScript to be executed based on events happening on 

ProcessLogix like a CM going into Alarm or parameter of a CM 

changing.

Updated Station & HMIWeb Display Builder

The following updates have been made to Station & HMIWeb Display Builder: 

• Improved menu/toolbar configuration

• Support for IKB/OEP Operator keyboards

• Define which monitor to start on, on multi-monitor systems.

• Faceplates - does not depend on hard-coded references to data, instead, 

links to point when called up. “Pin” function allows pop-up to stay open 

even after underlying display is changed. Includes pre-built faceplates 

for 1757-PLX52 and Standard points.

• Chart object

• Hyperlink support

• Rotation of static text on HMIWeb displays

• Alarm object

The following updates have been made to HMIWeb Display Builder:

• Ability to edit HTML pages created in third-party tools in HMIWeb 

Display Builder.

• Simplified appearance of HMIWeb object model in script editor

• The licensing for Stations has been changed so that up to four Station 

windows can be opened from the same machine and these four Station 

windows only count as one Station License. Works only with Stations 

that have a reserved (static) connection to the server, i.e. not for rotary 

Station connections or Web browsers.

TIP The 1757-PLX52 faceplates are provided in a zipped 

package per faceplate. To use these faceplates, double-click 

on the related package in the displays directory to extract 

the files from the package.

Plant Data Model Enhancements

This release of ProcessLogix has been enhanced to support 40 character Point 

ID's (standard points only, i.e. analog, status, accumulator). Point descriptor 

and area codes have been lengthened to support 132 and 40 characters 

respectively. Users using the ProcessLogix ODBC Driver for reports or