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Do-more CPUs and Do-more Designer Software / Re: Feature Request - Wildcards

« Last post by franji1 on May 27, 2026, 04:27:08 PM »

There's another "hidden in plain sight" feature for documenting changes.

Every time you write your project to the PLC, the "Download Project to PLC" dialog has a small text field where you can make a note of what you are doing for THAT specific download.  It's optional.  You don't have to enter anything.  But if you do, it PREPENDs that specific download note to your Project Notes document written to the PLC (it marks the text entry with current date/time and the current user that is writing the project to the PLC; see attached screen shot).

You can view your download history in this Project Notes document from the Dashboard (see Documentation panel, View/Edit Project Notes hot link).  It's just text, so you can tweak it - you normally would not, cuz you really want it to be a log of all the downloads - you can also print it out as part of Print All.  See other screen shot.

Note that the Write to PLC dialog PREPENDs each entry to the file, so the most recent one is AT THE TOP and the oldest is at the bottom (note the auto-generated timestamps and user name).

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Do-more CPUs and Do-more Designer Software / Re: Feature Request - Wildcards

« Last post by Watermark_JS on May 27, 2026, 03:58:18 PM »

Thanks for bringing that up!  I had it in my head that it was time-based, but since (upon review) I see that it's save-triggered, it might be the solution I need!

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Do-more CPUs and Do-more Designer Software / Re: Feature Request - Wildcards

« Last post by franji1 on May 27, 2026, 02:22:08 PM »

FYI, the Auto Save feature does something similar (so a backup mechanism to your backup mechanism).  It defaults to just 4 backups, though.  You can change it to be UNLIMITED via the File->Manage Projects->Restore from Backup... dialog and hit the "Configure Autosave..." button (there's a similar button on the File->Manage Projects->Folder Settings... dialog)

See the attached screen shot.

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Do-more CPUs and Do-more Designer Software / Re: Feature Request - Wildcards

« Last post by franji1 on May 27, 2026, 12:34:48 PM »

Franji -- No.  I was referring to saving the project in the DoMore Designer.

Ha!  That makes more sense.  I know I do that a lot with my work in various editors (including Designer).

Do-more PLCs also support a file system, so I thought you were referring to that (for file names IN the PLC).

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Do-more CPUs and Do-more Designer Software / Re: Feature Request - Wildcards

« Last post by Watermark_JS on May 27, 2026, 12:14:55 PM »

Franji -- No.  I was referring to saving the project in the DoMore Designer. 

I name my project files something like [project]_[date]_[time], which is why I like the wildcard options in that audio software.  Storing that information in the file name protects against loss of tracking if the file gets relocated.

Originally, I was trying to just use the version in the project properties, but that felt like additional overhead -- having to open an additional window -- and that data doesn't appear to be exposed to a File Explorer view.

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Do-more CPUs and Do-more Designer Software / Re: Feature Request - Wildcards

« Last post by franji1 on May 27, 2026, 11:17:17 AM »

Look at STRPRINT and use the resulting string variable as your file name.  Is that what you are looking for?

FmtDate($Now) "_" FmtTime($Now) ".csv"


STRPRINT has more capabilities than what macro expansion can do.  See the attached screen shot of the STRPRINT commands

https://hosteng.com/DmDHelp/Default.htm#Instruction_Set/STRPRINT_Print_to_String.htm

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Do-more CPUs and Do-more Designer Software / Feature Request - Wildcards

« Last post by Watermark_JS on May 27, 2026, 10:32:31 AM »

The audio engineering software I use has AMAZING wildcard-based file naming options (see pic).

Even just the ability to auto-add a datetime stamp would be fantastic...

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Do-more CPUs and Do-more Designer Software / Re: Bug in FTPPUT

« Last post by MikeS on May 21, 2026, 11:42:02 AM »

i should have mentioned that the DMLogger does use network broadcasts to get data from the CPU to the Logger dialog, so yes, it does have to run on a local PC that can accept broadcast packets.

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Do-more CPUs and Do-more Designer Software / Re: Bug in FTPPUT

« Last post by Scot on May 21, 2026, 10:54:32 AM »

I did try that yesterday before power cycling the BRX. I turned on ST35, set messaging to level 2, and left the Logger set to receive packets from Any but it received no packets at all when retrying the FTPPUT command. That network was on a remote system that I have limited access to so I think the Logger was being blocked from network access. I was remotely connected to a local PC at the site but I think the Do-More Logger running on that PC was blocked by Windows and I only had a User login, not Administrator.

I will have to wait a few months before being able to test again with the local BRX which I know does work with the logger.

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Do-more CPUs and Do-more Designer Software / Re: Bug in FTPPUT

« Last post by MikeS on May 21, 2026, 08:52:00 AM »

DMLogger can be used to display some of the FTP traffic between the BRX CPU and the FTP Server. This is a high-level look at the CPU's interaction with the FTP Server - it's not as detailed as a wireshark trace - but it might tell us why the connection attempt is failing.

Run Debug -> Do-more Logger. Make sure to select the option to 'turn on ST36' and select 'Level2 - Update ERR and MSG' for the messaging level.

Once DMLogger is up, use the 'Change' button to set the 'Accepting Packets from' address to the BRX CPU you want to monitor.

Any time the FTPPUT instruction is executed you will see the interaction traffic displayed in the logger.

one caveat is this logging mechanism is generic, meaning that any instruction in the CPU that has logging capability will do so when the logger is activated, so depending on what else is happening in the program you'll see traffic unrelated to the FTPPUT in the logger.