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Welcome to our New and Improved in 9.1 Highlights List!
For a quick highlight of some of the features and benefits included in 9.1, click the links below.
Detailed docs are in the left menu under "New and Improved in 9.1".
Existing customers that have a support contract can head over to support.tatsoft.com to submit a ticket.
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Find Detailed Docs Here: Responsive Dashboards
Dashboards quickly convey volumes of data in a compact and easily accessible format.
Responsive layouts allow your dashboard to intelligently resize based on your viewing device.
Find Detailed Docs Here: Themes
We support both Engineering Environment Themes and Project Themes!
Engineering Environment Themes
Project Themes
Find Detailed Docs Here: High Performance Graphics
High Performance Graphic symbols and an intelligent HPG Alarm symbol are New in 9.1!
We have also updated the Symbol Library menu to make it quicker to find High Performance or Standard style symbols.
All our symbol objects are vector based, so they resize intelligently across all displays.
Also, since you can create displays for both .NET and HTML5, we are making sure you can use our Symbols in BOTH display types – you get the same experience regardless of your user display needs.
Our symbols are powerful objects that have the ability to contain multiple data references (think “input parameters”) – making them easy to replicate and use for multiple purposes, while easily tying them to data-driven actions (such as showing color, running/off states, etc.)
You can also make your own symbols with any data links you want built in. You can tie them to a datatype. For instance, if you want a pump object to appear every time you drag an integer datatype onto the screen, you can!
You can also make your own data types! You could make a pump data type with sub-parameters and link it to a symbol. Dropping the PumpUDT on the screen will bring ALL your data parameters with it – automatically!
Find Detailed Docs Here: Visual SQL Query Builder
Our Visual SQL Query Builder allows you to visually and rapidly connect, build, and test your SQL queries before using them in your project.
Find Detailed Docs Here: Python Integration
Our Python Integration opens a great way to extend your projects with Python. Vastly increase the power and reach of your existing Python code by easily integrating it with FactoryStudio!
BONUS: We already support C#, VB.NET, and JavaScript!
Pre-built Project Templates get you started faster building the solutions you need.
(Each Projects includes the items from above and adds to it.)
Find Detailed Docs Here: MQTT Broker and Here: MQTT And Azure IoT
Our included MQTT broker and clients help you get connected safely, securely, and economically to a wide and growing variety of devices and systems.
Find Detailed Docs Here: Industrial Icons
Our Industrial Icons Font makes it easy and quick to add modern looking icons to your projects.
Create consistent and modern layouts.
Save time by using an icon font rather than a jpeg/png from the web.
Common icons are included such as Home, Alarms, Warnings, Chart, Gauge, Settings, Search, and more!
Easy and smooth resizing since the icon is actually a font!
Find Detailed Docs Here: Multi-Screen Engineering
Multi-Screen Engineering improvements speed development.
Create your projects to support multiple monitors.
Perfect for creating enterprise NOC, other Operations Control Room layouts, or even just dual-screen desktops.
Easily design different layouts for each screen.
Quickly specify which layout you want to appear on which screen.
Connectivity is a key feature of the FrameworX platform and FactoryStudio.
Find Detailed Docs Here: Simulator Driver
Our new Simulator Driver gives you many options for data types and ranges, and it gives you control over which simulation values you can generate.
Pick from a list of data types (including Strings!) and set the Min & Max values you would like the data types to range through.
For example, want to simulate a real-world analog device and its response to varying current of 4-20 mA? You can!
Rather use a range that was 0-25 mA so you can simulate a wire break with 0 mA? Do that too!
Find Detailed Docs Here: Remote Engineering and Multi-User Collaborative Development
Work Faster
Speed development by having a team of developers/engineers working at the same time in the same project – without the need for merging or importing.
Work Safer
FactoryStudio also supports Remote Engineering allowing you to have developers utilize a central shared repository and edit a project even when remote (not logged into the project server itself).
As long as the developers are on the same network, they can get to their projects, keeping your server safer by reducing the number of people who need to directly and remotely log into it.
Find Detailed Docs Here: Auto-Start SmartClient (watchdog application)
Helping to deliver maximum uptime for your users, the Auto-Start SmartClient (ASSC) is a self-healing watchdog application that helps ensure your remote SmartClient applications are always up and running.
{A SmartClient application is just one of the many ways you can start a client application, and it’s one of the easiest.
Just point at the server URL and you are done. No need to install other software – the SmartClient takes care of it all for you.
Now the Auto-Start SmartClient watchdog application makes sure your SmartClient is always up and running.}
Having supported projects that run in Linux environments for years, we continue to make improvements to ensure your project experience in the Linux environment will be as close to the .NET experience as you can get.
You can design your projects once and ensure your end users will get the same experience regardless of which platform they use.
(We also support Windows, iOS, and Android and Web via HTML5 – all from the same project, and all at the same time!
Just like our Multi-OS support, we are multi-language too! Projects support C#, VB.NET, JavaScript, and Python 2.x/3.x)
Find Detailed Docs Here: Secure Multi-Port Gateway
Ensure secure communications between multiple projects, nodes, or other systems you want to communicate with via our Secure Multi-Port Gateway.
Setup 1-to-1 communications to a single site, or setup 1-to-many communications for multiple sites running into the same “master” project.
In the example shown here, we have created a business level project that can send requests to any of a group of sites, and all the traffic is handled via our Secure Multi-Port Gateway.
Our Secure Multi-Port Gateway ensures safe data communications by only allowing the traffic that is supposed to go from point A to Point B, Point A to Point E, etc., all while keeping the sites apart from each other.
Find Detailed Docs Here: Sparklines in DataGrids
Tiny but mighty!
Sparklines, powerful and tiny charts, are now embeddable in a DataGrid (Table).
Want to show a quick visual of past data or performance right next to the current value? Now you can!
Use Sparkline trends right next to current values for improved context and possible indicator of where things are heading.
Stylin’
Available in 4 styles, you can show your mighty-mini-charts using “Line”, “Area”, “Bar”, or “WinLoss” formats.
Find Detailed Docs Here: Dynamic Cell Colors in Reports
Improve your reports with Dynamic Cell Colors. Calculated at run-time, you can vary the cell color of your report tables, making them deliver even more value faster.
Great for regulatory reporting as well as a quick visual history of when values were in or out of acceptable ranges.
Wish you could quickly spot areas that need attention in the shift report? Now you can!
Spend more time fixing issues, and celebrating wins, than staring at numbers trying to figure out what is great, or not-so-great, about that last run.
Find and Teleport
Need to easily find every place a tag is used in your system?
You can with FactoryStudio! Find, sort, and filter to easily find the tag(s) of interest and ALL the locations where it(they) exists.
Then, double click to go right to where that tag is used, whether in a display or even a line of code!
Bonus:
This also works for finding other things such as: Alarms, Displays, Reports, Scripts, Devices, Datasets, Historian Tables, and User Created Data Types (UDTs/Templates)
Powerful Renaming
Ever wish you could rename a tag in just ONE place, and EVERY place that tag was used in your project would automatically update?
You can with FactoryStudio!
Even rename a PART of a tag structure with our powerful templates. (e.g. Rename “Revs” to “RPM” in a tag structure such as: “Area1.Line3.Wrap2.Motor5.Revs.Count”)
Find Detailed Docs Here: Finding and Removing Unused Tags, Devices & More
The cleanup of your project is important during both project creation and maintenance
Having unused items in your project makes troubleshooting, maintenance, and understanding your project more difficult and error prone.
We make it easy and safe to find and remove many unused items:
Now you can easily find if you have made any of the above, forgot to hook them up, have not used them yet, or do not need them at all.