FactoryTalk View SE 8.2: What’s new?

Shawn Tierney

May 6, 2016

Last month Rockwell released version 8.2 of FactoryTalk View Site Edition, and below we detail its new features:

System Features:

Switching languages now possible during design-time
Using the object explorer you can hide or unhide objects from displaying during design-time
When setting up Trend pens, you can now choose to show the chart with the logarithm scale to base 10
Run-time options for trends now allow users to export data to a CSV file.
You can add caption text which appears on the on-screen keypad for numeric and string input objects.

Corrected Anomalies

Parameter Tags were not being correctly passed to TrendX.
Polygon Global Objects were not always holding position
Multistate Indicator sometimes did not display the images correctly
An SE button using /t parameters or string literals was passing all caps
what is entered in the string literal entry
The HMI Tag Alarm Log Viewer was defaulting to showing yesterdays alarms
View Studio stops working or crashes when using invoke command with TrendX templates
View SE Clients could time out when using CurrentUserHasGroup() for visibility
When first run, the AlmG_ShelvedAlarmsExist function was ignoring Normal, Acknowledged, Shelved alarms

Find out more about ViewSE 8.2

If you would like to view the FactoryTalk View Site Edition 8.2 release notes, head over to Rockwell's Product Versions webpage and search on and then select FactoryTalk View.

Once all the versions are listed, click on the document icon as shown below:

So, what do you think of the new features in ViewSE 8.2?

Will you jump on 8.2 right away because of one of the added features?

You can share your thoughts and opinions by submitting the “post a comment or question” link below.

Until next time, Peace ✌️

Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator

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Shawn is a lifelong Technology Enthusiast who as a pre-teen in the early 80's discovered his passion for programing on the newly released Apple II and VIC-20 computers. After earning a degree in Electronics, Shawn worked as a Certified Automation Specialist for 25 years before leaving to focus full time on teaching online PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at The Automation School, as well as publishing industrial automation news, interviews, and how-to articles & videos at The Automation Blog.