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Created Date: March 28,2018
Created By: Gerry G
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Is anyone else having issues the Do-More software sense the last update about a week ago. Mainly it has to do with making changes to a program, saving, then down loading to the PLC. Randomly (not every time) when I have been making changes to the program the "Accept " button will stay grayed out, if I go into any other menu and come back the Accept button will now be colored. I will hit the Accept button now the "Write to PLC " button stays grayed out and I need to bounce in and out of any other menu and I can write to the PLC. It looks to be a screen refresh issue, I may have changed an option some ware unknowingly but nothing is jumping out. Any help would be nice,
Created Date: March 28,2018
Created by: Gerry G
Is anyone else having issues the Do-More software sense the last update about a week ago. Mainly it has to do with making changes to a program, saving, then down loading to the PLC. Randomly (not every time) when I have been making changes to the program the "Accept " button will stay grayed out, if I go into any other menu and come back the Accept button will now be colored. I will hit the Accept button now the "Write to PLC " button stays grayed out and I need to bounce in and out of any other menu and I can write to the PLC.
It looks to be a screen refresh issue, I may have changed an option some ware unknowingly but nothing is jumping out.
Any help would be nice,
Created Date: March 28,2018
Created by: franji1
If you can provide some steps to duplicate the issue so we can duplicate it, that would be helpful.
I don't think this is what you are observing based on everything you said, but if you move your main window away from a Ladder View, e.g. to Documentation Editor or Dashboard, then the ACCEPT button will be GRAYED out because ACCEPT does not apply to the Documentation Editor or Dashboard. This is normal behavior.
Created Date: March 29,2018
Created by: Gerry G
Do-More Bugs Sense the Last Update?
03-28-2018, 09:30 AM
Is anyone else having issues the Do-More software sense the last update about a week ago. Mainly it has to do with making changes to a program, saving, then down loading to the PLC. Randomly (not every time) when I have been making changes to the program the "Accept " button will stay grayed out, if I go into any other menu and come back the Accept button will now be colored. I will hit the Accept button now the "Write to PLC " button stays grayed out and I need to bounce in and out of any other menu and I can write to the PLC.
It looks to be a screen refresh issue, I may have changed an option some ware unknowingly but nothing is jumping out.
Any help would be nice,
I do understand that the Accept and Write to PLC buttons are grayed out while in certain areas like the Doc. Editor. Am not really sure how else to explain it, I make a change to the program or multiple changes the Accept button cannot be clicked on until I go in and out of ANY other menu or option. Same for the Write to PLC button. Yesterday it only happened a few times, out of dozens of changes. That tells me it is not a setting I inadvertently changes because it is not every time.
Created Date: March 29,2018
Created by: franji1
Hmm... You are doing basic stuff, which would be obvious to see. We can't seem to duplicate it. :-\
Can you duplicate this with a new offline project, and/or have you duplicated it with another project?
Created Date: March 29,2018
Created by: Gerry G
I may have something jacked up in my Ethernet connection settings, end of last week I was unsuccessfully trying get the GS4 drive with Ethernet IP card to work with the PLC and was trying all kinds a things not knowing what I was doing. I also down loaded the update about that same time. Do you know how I can default the connection settings to take that out of the equation, without setting my back in my programing. Currently the machine is in production again, so I need to tread lightly and not cripple it for a have a day.
Created Date: March 29,2018
Created by: franji1
Do you know how I can default the connection settings to take that out of the equation, without setting my back in my programing.
Not sure if you mean the EtherNet/IP and other Ethernet settings in your .DMD project file, or if you mean reset the list of PLC communication links used by Designer.
Created Date: March 29,2018
Created by: Gerry G
Just rechecked every thing I was messing around with, all seems good. All the settings I was playing around with were is the Module, Device Configurations. That's all been deleted/removed.
Anyway this issues has only happened once today, so I am going to move on. If this becomes more problematic again I will look into it further.
Thanks for the feed back.