• CPU: 2 cores
• RAM: 4 GB

• CPU: 4 cores or more
• RAM: 8 GB or more

• Windows Server® 2025 Standard (Recommended OS)**
• Windows Server 2022 Standard (Recommended OS)**
• Windows Server 2019 Standard**
• Windows® 11 Enterprise (Recommended OS)
• Windows 11 Professional (Recommended OS)
• Windows 11 Enterprise 2024 LTSC 64-bit (v24H2)
• Windows 11 IoT Enterprise 2024 LTSC 64-bit (v24H2)***
• Windows 10 Enterprise 64-bit
• Windows 10 Professional 64-bit
• Windows 10 Enterprise 2021 LTSC 64-bit (v21H2) (Recommended OS)
• Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2021 LTSC 64-bit (v21H2)***
• Windows 10 Enterprise 2019 LTSC 64-bit (v1809)

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

• Converged Plantwide Ethernet (CPwE) Design and Implementation Guide (publication ENET-TD001) represents a collaborative development effort from Cisco Systems and Rockwell Automation.

• FactoryTalk Security Application Technique (publication SECURE-AT002) explains how to use FactoryTalk Security to implement authentication and authorization in your industrial automation system and how to enforce product-specific security for applications like Studio 5000 Logix Designer, FactoryTalk View, and FactoryTalk AssetCentre.

• System Security Design Guidelines Reference Manual (publication SECURE-RM001) provides guidelines for how to use Rockwell Automation products to improve the security of your industrial automation system.
• Configure System Security Features User Manual (publication SECURE-UM001) describes the system-level configuration requirements to use a controller that has achieved IEC 62443-4-2:2019 certification.
• CIP Security with Rockwell Automation Products Application Technique (publication SECURE-AT001) explains how to implement the Common Industrial Protocol (CIP) Security standard in your industrial automation control system (IACS).

• New Linear Gauge control object with integrated sparkline
  The new Linear Gauge control visualizes live process values on a linear scale with horizontal or vertical layouts, alarm indicators, and dynamic animations.
  The Linear Gauge control also integrates sparkline to show trends or variations in data over time, featuring horizontal and vertical orientation options, session-based reset, and adjustable gauge bar size.

• Horizontal or vertical position animation available for the Image object
  Support the horizontal or vertical position animation for the Image object.
• Terminal type and resolution reorganization
  Organize terminal types and resolutions into grouped categories, making project setup faster and more intuitive.
• WebBrowser ActiveX control updated to use Microsoft Edge WebView2
  The built-in WebBrowser Active X control is updated to use Microsoft Edge WebView2 as the default engine, replacing Internet Explorer® to deliver faster, more secure, and modern browsing experience.

• The display client closes unexpectedly when navigating to a display without the ActiveX control installed. First identified in FactoryTalk View ME version 14.00.00. [Jira 4898323]
• Opening a graphic display in FactoryTalk View Studio shows the error "an unnamed file has a bad format". First identified in FactoryTalk View ME version 14.00.00. [Jira 5036765]
• When Runtime Security is selected, the Application Documenter closes. First identified in FactoryTalk View ME version 15.00.00. [Jira 4841238]

• Image quality is bad. First identified in FactoryTalk View ME version 15.00.00. [Jira 4143291]
• An "Unable to locate the file" error occurs during the creation of a runtime application. First identified in FactoryTalk View ME version 15.00.00. [Jira 4142050]

• ME FunctionKey ActiveX control does not work. First identified in FactoryTalk View ME version 14.00.00. [Jira 4033754]
• Decimal places are missing from numeric displays in FactoryTalk View ME Station. First identified in FactoryTalk View ME version 13.00.00. [Jira 3895439]

• If a recipe name exceeds the tag limit, the name of the last recipe downloaded fails to update. First identified in FactoryTalk View ME version 14.00.00. [Jira 3793073]
• CSVDatalog and DataStore Plus ActiveX controls replace all non-English characters with question marks in exported logs. First identified in FactoryTalk View ME version 14.00.00. [Jira 3776000]

• 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.

• Unlimited ME graphic displays with FactoryTalk View Studio license
  Starting with version 16.00.00, a FactoryTalk View Studio license supports an unlimited number of graphic displays in an ME application. Versions 15.00.00 and earlier are limited to 500 displays.

• Removed support for PanelBuilder application imports
  Starting with version 16.00.00, FactoryTalk View ME no longer supports importing PanelBuilder® applications. To convert a PanelBuilder application to a FactoryTalk View ME application, use FactoryTalk View ME version 15.00.00 or earlier.

• When using UltraVNC version 1.04 or later with FactoryTalk View, a crash may occur when navigating in FactoryTalk View Studio or loading an application in FactoryTalk View ME Station.<
  To avoid this problem, ensure that your version of UltraVNC is earlier than 1.04.

• If you are using remote OPC servers at run time and if the remote OPC server fails:
  • Data on the clients appears to be valid, but does not update
  • Animations do not show in wireframes
  • Date displays do not show asterisks
  • Strings do not show questions marks
• Tags that use a FactoryTalk Linx remote OPC server will show a value in the Numeric Display object even when there is no communication, for example, when the Ethernet cable has been disconnected from the CE terminal, instead of showing asterisks or logging an error message to Diagnostics.
• If you connect to ControlLogix controllers via Ethernet network, there is no additional support for other Allen-Bradley devices or network hops through bridging modules to DH+ or RIO network.
• When you run an application by double-clicking the .mer file, the application may not be able to communicate. It is because the communications file will not be automatically overwritten, and the terminal has no communication configuration or another .mer file with a different communication configuration ran on the terminal.
  To avoid this problem, follow the steps below:
  1. If it is the first time you run the application, load the application in ME Station.
  2. When the following message shows, click Yes.
  "Do you want to replace the terminal's current communication configuration with the application's communication configuration?"

• If a slash mark (/) exists in a tag name, the application will not run correctly on a PanelView Plus terminal although it runs correctly during Test Run.
  To avoid this problem, do not include a slash mark in a tag name.

• 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.
  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.
• If you are using FactoryTalk View ME Station v10.00.00 or earlier on a Windows 10 operating system, files older than seven days may be deleted automatically in the %temp% folder.

  To retain the files:

  1. Disable silent cleanup by using either of the following methods:
  • If you have the administrator privilege, run the command: schtasks.exe /Change /TN "\Microsoft\Windows\DiskCleanup\SilentCleanup" /Disable
  • Open Task Scheduler, navigate to Task Scheduler Library > Microsoft > Windows > DiskCleanup, right-click SilentCleanup, and select Disable.
  2. Disable LowDiskSpaceChecks:
     1. Open Registry Editor.
     2. Navigate to Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current\Version\Policies\Explorer.
     3. Select Edit > New > DWORD VALUE.
     4. Type the name NoLowDiskSpaceChecks.
     5. Right-click NoLowDiskSpaceChecks and select Modify.
     6. In the Value data box, enter 1, and click OK.

• 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 on PanelView 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.

If either value exceeds 4096, you can configure the system to emulate a 4 KB sector size using the

 ForcedPhysicalSectorSizeInBytes registry key.

1. Run Registry Editor as an administrator.
2. Navigate to Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\stornvme\Parameters\Device.
3. Select Edit > New > Multi-String value and name it as ForcedPhysicalSectorSizeInBytes .
4. Right-click the name, select Modify, and then type  * 4095 in the Value data box.
5. Select OK.
6. Restart the computer.

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.