kewakl (Customer) asked a question.

Bulk tag creation with dialogs open can cause flashing and an increase in time required to create tags

Can we make this dialog update not happen during bulk tag creation.

(similar to Excel VBA Application.ScreenUpdating = False)

I understand that there is a lot going on behind the scene, but we ( I ) do not need to have this flash/update during the tag creation.

 

Creating bulk tags (in this case 1000) takes about 2 minutes (*depending on conditions) with any forced-update dialog open.

With the UDS Definition window closed and the Tag Database datatypes all unticked this 2 minute process is cut to about 5 seconds. (and the more I add, the longer this time is extended, too)

 

 

[Edit:

Adding AR2US16 extended this time to 6 minutes -- because I forgot to untick the datatypes!

I expect that conditions, could be construed to mean tag database population count, number of datatypes to refresh for every tag created, how long the software has been open, time between saves, PAC Suite internal housekeeping.....]


  • ADC Community_02 (Automationdirect.com)

    Thanks for the feedback! I will forward this suggestion over to the Productivity Product Manager.

    Selected as Best
  • ADC Community_02 (Automationdirect.com)

    Thanks for the feedback! I will forward this suggestion over to the Productivity Product Manager.

    Selected as Best
  • ADC Community_02 (Automationdirect.com)

    @kewakl (Customer)​ Can we get a copy of your system report? The Productivity QA team so far has not been able to reproduce the issue. Thanks.

    • kewakl (Customer)

      I will send when I get time.

      It will be the project that I am learning on, so it will be full of junk.

    • kewakl (Customer)

      I mesaged the sysrep.

      I cannot reproduce the issue at this time.

      It could be related to how long the software/project has been open / how may tag add actions have been performed.

      Thank you