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General Discussion / Re: TrendView Activation.

« Last post by franji1 on May 28, 2026, 03:44:46 PM »

I have noticed that a new trendview can only be created if connected to the PLC. Is there a reason for that? If  programming can be done without being connected to the PLC, it would also be nice to be able to create a trendview without being connected in advance. Thanks

You can't trend anything unless you are online to a PLC.  Similar to PID View - you can't create a PID View unless you are online to a PLC.

Neither of those views are part of your project.  Those are online PLC monitoring views.

However, you can definitely write code without needing any hardware.

Code/Logic, System Configuration, and Documentation are all part of your disk based project file - Trend View is not.

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General Discussion / TrendView Activation.

« Last post by Barnic on May 28, 2026, 03:10:50 PM »

I have noticed that a new trendview can only be created if connected to the PLC. Is there a reason for that? If  programming can be done without being connected to the PLC, it would also be nice to be able to create a trendview without being connected in advance. Thanks

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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, 10:04:06 PM »

Thanks for the assist, Franji.  Your suggestions were all helpful, as always.

I think I'm going to experiment with the Autosave system.  I'm just working to integrate DoMore more tightly with our source control system, so I'm just tinkering. 

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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...