KB-32719: Extracting characters from the left or from the right with VBScript.
Question: How can I extract a certain amount of characters from a script’s left or right? Solution: To do so, use Left and Right functions to extract characters from the…
Category: Scripts
KB-32656: Retrieving information on the user logged to the application.
Question: How can I retrieve, via scripts, both user name and user group to which this user belongs? Solution: Username is retrieved by Viewer‘s User property. Example: dim user user…
Alarms acknowledgement via scripts.
How can a specific alarm be acknowledged inside E3Alarm via scripts? Alarm acknowledgement via scripts has been a feature of E3 since its version 3.2. To do so, three new…
KB-31856: Application login via barcode.
Question:How can I log in to an application with a barcode?Solution:To do so, follow these procedures:First, make sure you have the device (barcode) set up and working properly…
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Mateus Machado
KB-32070: Opening an E3 application only once.
Question: How can I open an E3 application with a button, so that this application opens only once? Solution: To do so, create an internal tag in the Viewer, and…
KB-28004: MsgBox command not working in scripts running in a data server.
Question: I have a MsgBox command in a script running in the data server. However, the message is not being displayed when the application is executed. How can I fix…
KB-28253: Forcing scrollbar use with DoModal method.
Question: How can I force the use of a scrollbar with DoModal method? Solution: To do so, you must add zoom type to “Screen” parameter, as well as a question…
KB-26877: Adding date/time to a report’s name.
Question: How can I add date and time to a report’s name, so that every time a report is loaded and exported, a new PDF file is generated with a…
KB-24635: Checking wheter Value property is already linked, at runtime.
Question: How can I check, at runtime, whether an object’s Value property is already linked? Solution: To do so, use a script that is similar to the one in the…
KB-27707: Synchronizing PLC’s and computer’s date/time (BIOS).
Question: How can I synchronize the PLC’s date/time with the computer’s date/time (BIOS)? Solution: To do so, use this script: dim oShellSet oShell = CreateObject(“WSCript.shell”)oShell.run “cmd /K DATE “& Application.GetObject(“Dados.Data”).Value,0…