Hello all,

maybe there are others like me who have faced this issue so I am making a post here. I use a S7 1214c PLC V4.6 and a Unified Basic HMI V20.0. In my program I have some timers which I show as values in IO_Field and/or graphically in a Bar Graph. 

The issue I have is that when I set the scale min max values to bar graph, I need to enter the time in ticks (1 tick = 100 ns) which means I need to convert my scale values to ticks (i.e. 30s = 300000000 … also seconds * 10000000). As you can see this is not conventional as I also do set some limits to the tags that control timers PT value. If I don't write them in ticks, the bad quality triangle overlays the element where this tag is used and I can't change it as im clearly over the limit.

The next issue is that when I do write the scale min max in tics, no problem appears using the old editor in tia portal or when they are visible on hmi. If I use the new unified editor or open the WebServer, I do se the number of ticks at min max values.

Is there any workaround to this? I would like to evaluate for whatever value the timer has, t#xxs,t#xxm, t#xxh… and not to convert everything to tics because it is not practical and each time you have to open a calculator to make sure the conversion is correct.

Thank you everyone who takes the time to read this.

Greetings,

RH

Hi Stefan,

thank you for your reply. I have tried updating to the latest version but it did not solve the issue. Not only this but the latest version has a bug with 3d io fields whose content is not visible if programmed as Input/Output.

The issue is that web browsers usually work on milliseconds time basis while the panels as discussed work on ticks regarding time. If I access the panel via WebServer, similar like the new unified editor in TIA Portal, I dont see 30s but 300000s because the browser evaluates time on milliseconds, not ticks or nanoseconds like unified panels. 

The only work around I am thinking is to convert the seconds to integer data type and work with that, but it adds a lot of work for a simple set up. I'd wait before opening a new request because another one regarding TIA Portal V20 is going on, accepted but not yet fixed.

Kind Regards,

RH

(brain storming / suggestion)
Is it not a possibility to convert the TIME type to something else that is more convenient to use? 
Scripts can work with TIME as a DINT value – right?
@Stefan: (please) Any thoughts on what the OP needs to make the idea work?