• Intel® Core™ i5 Standard Power processor
• 4 GB of memory (RAM)

• Windows Server® 2022 Standard (Recommended, CIS Benchmark)
• Windows Server 2022 Datacenter
• Windows Server 2019 Standard (Recommended, CIS Benchmark)
• Windows Server 2019 Datacenter
• Windows® 11 Enterprise (Recommended, CIS Benchmark)
• Windows 11 Professional
• Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2024 (v24H2)
• Windows 10* Enterprise 64-bit (Recommended, CIS Benchmark)
• Windows 10 Professional 64-bit
• Windows 10 Enterprise 2021 LTSC 64-bit (v21H2)
• Windows 10 Enterprise 2019 LTSC 64-bit (v1809)

• Google® Chrome™ browser
• Microsoft® Edge™
• Mozilla® Firefox®

• Configure System Security Features User Manual (publication SECURE-UM001)
• System Security Design Guidelines Reference Manual (publication SECURE-RM001)
• Converged Plantwide Ethernet (CPwE) Design and Implementation Guide (publication ENET-TD001)

• Add Component Tool

  Support adding ME components to an application through command lines without using FactoryTalk View Studio.

• HMI Projects Folder Path Config Utility

  A new utility that supports customizing the HMI projects folder location.

• Global Objects folder enhancement

  Support creating up to two levels of logical folders for systematic organization of global graphic display components, while maintaining global object references. It also facilitates the drag-and-drop capabilities between different FactoryTalk View Studio instances, and between FactoryTalk View Studio and the Windows Explorer.

• FactoryTalk View Studio enhancement

  Introduce new menu options to enhance usability:

  • Close All: Allows users to close all windows with one click, streamlining the workspace management.
  • Collapse All/Expand All: Allows users to collapse or expand all folders under Displays and Global Objects in the Explorer window, facilitating better navigation and organization of project elements.

• ME Recipe ActiveX control enhancement

  Add ME Recipe 4 ActiveX control to support 1000 floating tags.

• Performance enhancement

  Enhance the speed of testing an application and creating a runtime application (*.mer) to expedite development workflows and elevate user experience.

• Reference objects are distorted if you first import displays with reference objects of version 13 or earlier, and then import global object displays. First identified in FactoryTalk View version 14.00.00. [Jira 3160004]

  Corrected in FactoryTalk View version 15.00.00.

• In FactoryTalk View Studio, when restoring a project with a problematic runtime security file, the popup that needs to be acknowledged to work with the software appears in the background, and the software stops responding. First identified in FactoryTalk View ME version 13.00.00. [Jira 3724378]
• When creating a version 8.0 runtime application, the ramp value for ramp buttons becomes the minimum or maximum values. First identified in FactoryTalk View ME version 14.00.00. [Jira 3648231]
• Application Documenter shows "Unspecified error" and stops responding. First identified in FactoryTalk View ME version 14.00.00. [Jira 3351748]
• Numeric Input Enable object shows asterisks in the entry box when the tag value is -.07. First identified in FactoryTalk View ME version 12.00.00. [Jira 3216840]
• Text size in the Caption box of the Label tab is too small. First identified in FactoryTalk View ME v12.00.00. [Jira 3374095]

• If FactoryTalk View ME is configured to print alarms, and the printer is not connected, the alarms will accumulate in the memory. This can eventually create a low memory available situation. First identified in FactoryTalk View ME 10.00.00. [Jira 3094182]
  To clear the accumulated print alarms, connect the configured printers. The memory will be released as each alarm prints.

• When upgrading FactoryTalk Services Platform to version 6.40.00 or later on a computer installed with FactoryTalk View version 13.00 or earlier, the following documents cannot be opened from the FactoryTalk View Studio Help menu:
  • FactoryTalk Services Platform Help
  • FactoryTalk Services Platform Release Notes
  • FactoryTalk Security System Configuration Guide
  • FactoryTalk Alarms and Events System Configuration Guide

First identified in FactoryTalk Service Platform version 6.40.00. [Jira 3289981]

These documents are renamed with the latest version of FactoryTalk Services Platform, and the older version of FactoryTalk View is hard-coded to previous names. You can view these documents in C:\Program Files (x86)\Common File\Rockwell\Help:

• FactoryTalk Services Platform\Help\ENU\index.html
• FactoryTalk Services Platform\Release Notes\ENU\index.html
• ftsec-qs001_-en-e.pdf
• ftae-rm001_-en-e.pdf

You can also view the FactoryTalk Services Platform Help and Release Notes from the FactoryTalk Administration Console Help menu.

• After switching the authentication mode from LDAP over SSL to other modes, it’s unable to log on with a domain user account. First identified in FactoryTalk View ME version 12.00.00. [Jira 562100]

To resolve this problem, reload the runtime application in FactoryTalk View ME Station.

• Transparency does not work for a Symbol Factory object containing PolyPolygon elements on a PanelView Plus 7 or PanelView Plus 6 terminal. First identified in FactoryTalk View ME version 10.00.00. [Jira 343451]

  To avoid this problem, you can use the PNG files provided in Knowledgebase Document ID: BF17144 - Transparency is not working correctly on the PanelView Plus 6/7 terminals for Symbol Factory objects.

• If a remote desktop is connected to the terminal, but the remote desktop does not contain a remote directory, the terminal's performance slows down when the DataStorePlus ActiveX control on the terminal logs data to the remote desktop. First identified in FactoryTalk View ME version 7.00.00 [275446]

There is currently no workaround for this anomaly.

• Some object properties that are configured in character sets for East Asian languages, such as Chinese or Japanese, will show a question mark in the result list when you use the Find and Replace, Cross Reference, or Undo feature. First identified in FactoryTalk View ME version 7.00.00. [338894]

To avoid this problem, go to Control Panel > Regional and Language Options, and select the appropriate language to match the desired language.

• If the expression setting for the animation property of the base object is empty when you change the LinkAnimation property of a reference object to Link without expressions and change the expression setting for the animation property, the expression setting change cannot be saved. First identified in FactoryTalk View ME version 6.00.00. [272937]

To avoid this problem, enter a valid value in the expression setting for the animation property of the base object first.

• When opening a development application (*.med) in FactoryTalk View Studio, in the New/Open Machine Edition Application dialog box, the Resolution box shows blank. It is because the application's ProjectSettings.pts file is missing. First identified in FactoryTalk View ME version 8.00.00. [346587]

  To avoid this problem, re-configure the project window size in the Project Settings window.

• Applying color animations to an object group as well as to the individual objects in the group causes unexpected behaviors. First reported in version 8.00.00. [346758]
  To set up color animations for an object group, either apply the color animations to the group, or to the individual objects in the group.

• When registering or unregistering an ActiveX Control object in FactoryTalk View Studio with User Account Control (UAC) enabled in the operating system, an error message shows. First identified in FactoryTalk View ME version 8.00.00. [346124]

To successfully register or unregister an ActiveX Control object, do one of the following before the operation:

• Turn off UAC and restart the computer
• Run FactoryTalk View Studio as administrator

For more information about UAC, see Application notes.

• If a Recipe ActiveX control object is used on an On Top display, when using the object to execute the load operation, the runtime application stops responding on desktops and terminals. First identified in FactoryTalk View ME version 7.00.00. [345978, 346171]

  To avoid this problem, put the Recipe ActiveX control object on a Replace display.

• On terminals, after changing Decimal Separator to comma, the decimal separator may still be a period instead of a comma for numeric embedded variables. First identified in FactoryTalk View ME version 8.10.00. [352278]

There is currently no workaround for this anomaly.

• If you installed the Stand-alone ME Transfer Utility on your computer and then uninstalled the ME Transfer Utility from Windows Control Panel, when you launch FactoryTalk Administration Console, the System node is missing from the directory tree. First identified in FactoryTalk View ME version 7.00.00. [348016]

To avoid this problem, follow the steps below:

1. In the Command Prompt window, navigate to

C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Rockwell\ on 64-bit operating systems

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Rockwell\ on 32-bit operating systems

where C: is the drive to which Rockwell Automation applications are installed.

2. Type the following command to register the RnaSecurityinterfaces.dll file:
   regsvr32 RnaSecurityInterfaces.dll
3. Restart your computer after registration.

• If a user's Login Macro runs remote display navigation, when the user logs in to an application, ME Station may stop responding if the user’s authentication does not complete before the remote display navigation is run. First identified in FactoryTalk View version 8.00.00. [348175]

There is currently no workaround for this anomaly.

• When loading web pages in Web Browser, the ActiveX control causes a memory leak. First identified in FactoryTalk View ME version 7.00.00. [275838, 276309]
  See the following table for more information.

  Loading a web page every number of seconds (s)	Approximate memory leak increase by the number of kilobytes (KB)	Approximate cumulative memory leak over a 600-second duration
  30 s	56 KB	1,120 KB
  60 s	58 KB	580 KB
  300 s	133 KB	266 KB

There is currently no workaround for this anomaly.

• When running applications on a PanelView Plus 7 or PanelView Plus 6 terminal, if you switch the language to Chinese, the captions and shorter messages in the pop-up windows of User Management buttons may show as square boxes. First identified in FactoryTalk View ME version 8.20.00. [Jira 1191837]

To show the Chinese characters, link the Tahoma, Arial, and Courier New fonts with Arial Unicode MS.

To link a font with Arial Unicode MS

1. Go to Terminal Settings/Font Linking, select the font you want to edit, and press Show Links.
2. Press Edit Link.
3. In the Add Linked Font window, select Arial Unicode MS, and press Add Font.
4. After editing all the fonts, go to the FactoryTalk View ME Station window, and press Reset.

• When ME Custom String Popup Keyboard is open, the global connection for remote navigation does not work. First identified in FactoryTalk View ME version 6.00.00. [270634]

To ensure that the global connection for remote navigation works, close ME Custom String Popup Keyboard.

• If a design time application file (.med) is restored from a runtime application file (.mer) that is created using a later version FactoryTalk View Studio, certain graphic display may not be opened in the earlier version FactoryTalk View Studio and an error message may show. For example, if you create a v8.20 .mer file using FactoryTalk View Studio 9.0, and restore the .mer file to a .med file using FactoryTalk View Studio 8.20, certain graphic display may not be opened in FactoryTalk View Studio 8.20. This error may be caused by the global object that uses a parameter. First identified in FactoryTalk View ME version 6.10.00. [352393]

  To avoid this problem, remove the parameter from the global object.

• When using a tag placeholder for the Data_Source connection, the Chart ActiveX control does not show any data in the test display mode, and an error message shows in FactoryTalk Diagnostics: “Failed to resolve item’s ID ”#” because it does not exist on any server.” First identified in FactoryTalk View ME version 8.20.00. [363775]

To avoid this problem, use a tag for the Data_Source connection instead of a tag placeholder.

• On Microsoft Surface® tablets, the press and hold gesture may not open a component's menu if the component is a text box. First identified in FactoryTalk View 9.00.00. [362400]

To avoid this problem, use a mouse and right-click the component to open the menu.

• Parameters used in the Float00x and the String 00x connections for the ME Recipe 2 ActiveX control cannot be resolved in test display mode. First identified in FactoryTalk View ME version 9.00.00. [365277]

Parameters can be resolved in the test run or runtime mode.

• Clearing alarm history may not clear alarm identifiers in alarm banner and alarm status list objects. First identified in FactoryTalk View ME version 9.00.00. [366740]

  There is currently no workaround for this anomaly.

• If a user account is locked in FactoryTalk ViewPoint, the account is still active in FactoryTalk View ME. First identified in FactoryTalk View ME version 8.00.00 [367826]

To unlock the user account in FactoryTalk ViewPoint, reload the application on the PanelView Plus family terminal.

• When running FactoryTalk View ME applications on Windows Server 2016 or Windows 10 v1607 operating systems, initiating a network connectivity break by disabling NIC adaptors in Device Manager can cause application failures requiring a restart of the application. This issue was introduced in the Windows Server 2016 operating system and the Windows 10 v1607 feature build. [363223]

To avoid this problem, run the Microsoft Hotfix KB3201845 outlined in https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3201845.

Alternatively, you can run Windows 10 v1703 or other supported operating systems where this issue is not present.

For more information about Windows 10 operating system support, see Knowledgebase Document ID: IN4493 - Windows 10 Support for the FactoryTalk Suite of Rockwell Software products.

For more information about Windows Server 2016 operating system support, see Knowledgebase Document ID: IN4718 - Windows Server 2016 Support for the FactoryTalk Suite of Rockwell Software products.

• On the ODBC Database tab of the Diagnostics Setup editor, if the data source name and target table are not configured, other changes cannot be saved on the tab. First identified in FactoryTalk View ME version 11.00.00. [Jira 859411]

To avoid this problem, configure the data source name and target table. Then other changes can be saved on the ODBC Database tab.

• ME program launcher ActiveX control security enhancement

  When adding an ME program launcher ActiveX control to a graphic display, a security confirmation will be displayed. At runtime, a diagnostic message will be logged to identify the program executed.

• To install FactoryTalk View ME Station using the default settings during the installation process. (Silent install)
  Setup.exe /Q /IAcceptAllLicenseTerms /Product="Machine Edition Station for Windows"

• FactoryTalk View ME version 11.00.00 can work with the following versions of KEPServer Enterprise:
  • Version 5.13 or later on Windows 10 operating systems
  • Version 5.0 or later on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 operating systems
    • To run KEPServer Enterprise 5.0 or later on Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 operating systems, disable UAC and log in as an administrator.
    • When using a remote Kepware data server, to run FactoryTalk View ME version 6.00.00 or later applications on a Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 operating system, you need set DCOM manually.

• If an application running on a PanelView Plus terminal uses KEPServer as the OPC Data Server, a conflict is created with the Serial DF1 driver installed by default with FactoryTalk Linx. This produces the following recurring error message:
  "DF1: Failed to open COM2: as it may be already in use by another application."
  To stop the error message, remove the default Serial DF1 driver. For more information, see Knowledgebase Document ID: BF15496 - Error opening COM1 [OS Error== 55] shows up in diagnostics list when running Kepserver onPanelView Plus.

• If a runtime application (.mer) that contains a KEPServer Enterprise project file is converted to a design time application, the location of the project file is not shown to the user.
  To access the project file, go to \Users\Public\Public Documents\RSView Enterprise\ME\HMI Projects\<application name>\KEPServer.

• If you are using KEPServer Enterprise as an OPC server with FactoryTalk View version 9.00.00 or later and using an HMI tag to connect to a third-party device, you will not be able to access the tag value. The cause is that the security enhancements in FactoryTalk View version 9.00.00 or later affect the communications with third-party devices. To access the tag value, the additional Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) configuration is required for KEPServer Enterprise on the computers.
  For more information about the configuration, see Appendix, "Troubleshoot KEPServer Enterprise" in the FactoryTalk View Installation Guide.

1. Click the Download Software Updates link and enter your Rockwell Automation Member identification.
2. Enter your Company Name and the Software Serial Number for your current RSNetWorx.
3. Follow the instructions to download and install the updated software product.

For the latest network security considerations when using Rockwell Automation products, visit the Rockwell Automation Knowledgebase. For information about:

• File extensions created by Rockwell Automation software, firewall rules, and service dependences, see Knowledgebase Document ID: PN826 - Security considerations when using Rockwell Automation Software Products.
• TCP/UDP ports used by Rockwell Automation products, see Knowledgebase Document ID: BF7490 - TCP/UDP Ports Used by Rockwell Automation Products.

• C:\Program Files\Common Files\Rockwell\Rsvchost.exe
• C:\Program Files\Common Files\Rockwell\RnaDirServer.exe
• C:\Program Files\Common Files\Rockwell\VStudio.exe
• C:\Program Files\Common Files\Rockwell\RNADirMultiplexor.exe
• C:\Program Files\Common Files\Rockwell\RNADiagnosticsSrv.exe
• C:\Program Files\Rockwell Software\RSLinx Enterprise\RSLinxNG.exe

• C:\Program Files\Rockwell Software\RSView Enterprise\MEMacroEditor.exe
• C:\Program Files\Rockwell Software\RSView Enterprise\MERuntime.exe
• C:\Program Files\Rockwell Software\RSView Enterprise\TagSrv.exe

• On a 32-bit operating system, Watcom database and SQL Server database will be installed.
• On a 64-bit operating system, only SQL Server database will be installed.

• Application
• HMI server
• Data server
• HMI tag
• FactoryTalk Linx shortcut
• design time application file (.med)
• All FactoryTalk View application components, including graphic displays, parameter files, macro files, and data log files

• If a FactoryTalk View ME application is created on a computer whose operating system is in one language, such as the English version of Windows, and is later restored on another operating system that is in another language, such as the German version of Windows, unexpected errors may arise when the application name includes more than 16 characters.
  To avoid this problem:
  

  1. Open or restore the application on an operating system that is in the original language, the English version of Windows in this example.
  2. On the English version of Windows operating system, use Application Manager to rename the application to 16 characters or less and to back up the application to an APA file.
  3. Restore the APA file on the operating system that is in another language, the German version of Windows in this example.
     For updated information, subscribe to Knowledgebase Document ID: IN20660 - Application restored on different language OS will not function correctly in FactoryTalk View Studio.

• If a FactoryTalk View ME application is closed, but FactoryTalk View Studio remains open, the Application Manager cannot delete or copy the closed application. The Application Manager does not recognize the application as being closed.
  To avoid this problem, open another application in FactoryTalk View Studio or close FactoryTalk View Studio before deleting or copying the application in Application Manager.

• The existing Application Name dialog box cannot show the .mea application when restoring a legacy .mea application through FactoryTalk View ME directly. To avoid this problem, use Application Manager to convert the .mea application to an .med application. The .med application can then be imported using FactoryTalk View ME.

• If a FactoryTalk View ME application running on a Windows desktop platform is logging data to a custom path, attempting to access the log file (for example, to copy it) while data is being logged will stop the logging process and produce an error.
  To avoid this problem, access the log file after the data is logged.

• If the custom path is set as C:\ in FactoryTalk View ME version 6.0 or later version applications (including the applications migrated from FactoryTalk View ME version 5.1 or earlier) running on Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 operating system, the data logging process fails to start and cannot show the trend with historical data.
  To avoid this problem, rebuild the application and change the store path to other drives or a subfolder of drive C:, such as "C:\log" or "C\log\data".

• If communication to a custom path fails while data is being written to the data log, data logging will stop.
  To resume data logging, shut down and restart the application.
• When FactoryTalk View ME Station is configured to delete log files on startup, it will delete alarm log file, audit log file, data log model, and diagnostics.

• For the sake of expediency, we recommend upgrading via Ethernet or Compact Flash. The other protocols will work, however, the upgrade process may be extremely lengthy.
• When upgrading the firmware directly on a PanelView Plus, PanelView Plus Compact, or PanelView Plus CE terminal, do not remove the Compact Flash card until you see the following message: "The firmware upgrade has been completed. Remove the Firmware Upgrade Card and then press the Exit button." Premature removal of the card will cause the upgrade to fail.
• When the existing Machine Edition software on a PanelView Plus terminal is uninstalled during the upgrade, a multi-language message shows, stating that the software may be corrupted. The message includes two buttons, marked Download and Continue. Ignore this message, and do not press either of these buttons. Pressing either of these buttons will cause the Firmware Upgrade Wizard to become unstable.
• Upgrading the firmware over a direct Ethernet or Serial connection will not work unless the PanelView File Transfer Utility is running on the terminal.
• Files on the network are not available for upgrades. The upgrade files must be on the same computer as the Firmware Upgrade Wizard, otherwise the upgrade cannot be completed.
• The firmware upgrade deletes any files and shortcuts in the startup directory (Storage card\Windows\Startup), including those not related to FactoryTalk View ME Station.
• When you upgrade the firmware using a firmware upgrade (Compact Flash) card, the install procedure does not check the available space on the terminal's storage card. If the upgrade is larger than the existing firmware installation, be sure there is suYcient space available before starting the upgrade.
• When downloading through a local connection, the progress dialog becomes locked and cannot be moved. If another application is opened over the dialog and then removed, the progress dialog does not refresh, but goes blank instead.
• When the PanelView Plus, PanelView Plus Compact, and PanelView Plus CE terminals start, the characters EBC, followed by a letter or a number sequence, are shown on the top right corner of the screen: EBC-M or EBC 2.00.30, for example. If you see an EBC letter version earlier than "M", the Firmware Upgrade Wizard cannot perform the system upgrade.
• Firmware upgrades to PanelView Plus and PanelView Plus Compact 400 and 600 terminals can be performed remotely provided the terminal has suYcient available space. Since the presence of KepServer drivers is the most likely to affect the amount of available memory, if the terminal includes KepServer drivers, or if the upgrade includes KepServer drivers, the download may fail. A Compact Flash card upgrade is recommended.

• If an object contains undefined strings (for example, Chinese), and you choose to show undefined strings in the default language (for example, English), after you copy and paste the object, the duplicated object always shows the English language when you switch application languages. In this example, if the default language remains English and you did not choose to show undefined strings in the default language, when you change the application's current language to Chinese or French, the duplicated object still shows the English language, instead of a question mark (?).
  To avoid this problem, in the Language Configuration dialog box, clear the Display undefined strings using the default language check box before copying and pasting the object.

• Graphic objects that show floating point values, such as numeric displays and input objects, show only five decimal places, and the fifth decimal place will be rounded if necessary.
• Graphic displays, images, and graphic libraries that have the same name cannot be opened at the same time.
• Objects that have rounded corners and use a wide line width (greater than 10) will not show the rounded corners on a PanelView Plus 7, PanelView Plus 6, PanelView Plus, PanelView Plus Compact, or PanelView Plus CE terminal.
• If you are applying width or vertical position animation to text that uses Courier New font, the text will not animate properly. To avoid this problem, select a different font.
• Scaled graphic objects add 1 to width or height settings when editing.
  To avoid this problem, choose one of the following methods:
  • Ungroup the objects before scaling, scale each object individually, and regroup if needed.
  • Set the height and width for the objects twice.

• In FactoryTalk View Studio version 8.20.00 and earlier, a PanelView Plus 7 Standard application cannot contain more than 25 displays or more than 200 alarms. In FactoryTalk View Studio version 9.00.00 and 10.00.00, a PanelView Plus 7 Standard application can contain up to 25 On Top displays, 25 Replace displays, and 500 alarms. In FactoryTalk View Studio version 11.00.00 and later, a PanelView Plus 7 Standard application can contain up to 100 displays and 500 alarms.
• Using FactoryTalk View Studio version 9.00.00 or later, you can create a v8.20 or earlier version of PanelView Plus 7 Standard runtime application (.mer) that contains more than 25 displays or more than 200 alarms. The runtime application can be run on a PanelView Plus 7 Standard terminal installed with firmware version 8.20 or earlier, and can be restored to a design time application (.med) using FactoryTalk View Studio version 8.20.00 or earlier. However, from the restored application, you cannot create a PanelView Plus 7 Standard runtime application using FactoryTalk View Studio version 8.20.00 or earlier, because the number of alarms or displays exceeds the restriction defined in FactoryTalk View Studio version 8.20.00 or earlier.
• Using FactoryTalk View Studio version 11.00.00 or later, you can create a v9.00 or v10.00 PanelView Plus 7 Standard runtime application (.mer) that contains more than 50 displays. The runtime application can be run on a PanelView Plus 7 Standard terminal installed with firmware version 9.00 or 10.00, and can be restored to a design time application (.med) using FactoryTalk View Studio version 9.00.00 or 10.00.00. However, from the restored application, you cannot create a PanelView Plus 7 Standard runtime application using FactoryTalk View Studio version 9.00.00 or 10.00.00, because the number of displays exceeds the restriction defined in FactoryTalk View Studio version 9.00.00 or 10.00.00. To maintain a PanelView Plus 7 Standard application that includes more than 50 displays, it is recommended to use FactoryTalk View ME v11.00.00 or later.

• Due to limited memory (RAM) on PanelView Plus family terminals, the extended tag property @Description cannot be passed through on PanelView Plus family terminals.
• If the AM symbol, PM symbol, or Separator contains an ampersand (&), the string in the Time Format window is not shown correctly.
• When a parameter list is used to open a graphic display on a PanelView Plus terminal, it does not show correctly if spaces are part of the string. To show strings correctly on a PanelView Plus terminal, define all strings without spaces.

• When there are multiple macros running in the application, or there are several displays popping up, if you shut down the application, you might experience a crash.
  To resolve this issue, reset the terminal.

• On a PanelView Plus 7 or PanelView Plus 6 terminal, when saving files that have the same file name extension, and whose names start with the same eight characters on an SD card:
  • A maximum of 999 such files can be stored in a folder if the SD card is formatted using FAT32 (File Allocation Table 32).
  • More than 999 such files can be stored in a folder if the SD card is formated using exFAT (Extended File Allocation Table). For example, when exporting CSV files (YYYY_MM_DD_HH_mm_ss-<FileLabel>-TYPE.csv), you may need to format the SD card using exFAT to save more files.
  For more information about formatting an SD card using exFAT, see Appendix, "Format an SD card using exFAT" in the FactoryTalk View ME User's Guide.

• On a PanelView Plus 7, PanelView Plus 6, PanelView Plus, PanelView Plus Compact, or PanelView Plus CE terminal, selecting the following option produces an error message in red: Terminal settings > Startup options > Startup tests > Select tests > CF External
  This message can safely be ignored. It does not indicate that the Compact Flash card has failed. This option is intended for use at the time of manufacture only.

• If a Windows-linked user belongs to a Distribution type Windows-linked user group, the user cannot log in to the running application on desktops.
  To ensure that the user can log in, change the group type of the Windows-linked user group to Security.
• When there are multiple macros running in the application, or there are several displays popping up, if you shut down the application, you might experience a crash.
  To resolve this issue, reset the terminal.

• If you set up a primary domain controller with a backup domain controller to authenticate users for a PanelView Plus 7, PanelView Plus 6, PanelView Plus, or PanelView Plus CE terminal and the primary domain controller loses its network connection, the terminal will fail to authenticate through the backup domain controller.
  This will not happen if you authenticate domain users for personal computers.

• If tag names, device shortcuts, or direct references include spaces, the Tag Substitution tool does not work for the tags in embedded variables.
  To avoid this problem, remove spaces in tag names, device shortcuts, and direct references when the tags are in an embedded variable.
• If an HMI tag's Maximum property is increased, the change is not effective immediately.
  To apply the changes, close and reopen FactoryTalk View Studio.
• Using a long integer tag with a value of 2,147,483,648 or greater will not allow an application to be validated or a converted MER file to be created from version 5.1 to 6.0. It is because that during the validation and conversion process, a tag is written in the command line (tag=2147483648), macro, or expression.
  To avoid this problem, keep the integer tag value less than 2,147,483,648.

• When using tags, the values that are less than 53 bits are not shown correctly or may appear wireframed. It is because LINT, ULINT, or LWORD data types are not fully supported.

Impact of Microsoft deprecating VBScript

Microsoft announced the phased deprecation of VBScript in 2024. VBScript is now an optional feature beginning in Windows 11 24H2 and Windows Server 2025. Many FactoryTalk software products released before September 1, 2026, use VBScript during installation.

FactoryTalk View Machine Edition versions 16.00.00 and earlier require VBScript for installation. Installation will fail if VBScript is not enabled.

To mitigate the problem, enable VBScript manually. For more information, see the Knowledgebase Document ID: IN41397 - Impact of Microsoft deprecating VBScript. FactoryTalk software products released after September 1, 2026, no longer rely on VBScript.