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Created by: Struggling at: 5/24/2011 12:32 PM (9 Replies)

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5/24/2011 12:32 PM	Rate (0)
Struggling Posts: 13 Rating: (0)	Hi guys, hoping you are able to give me some help on this. I have a WinCC 7.0 program where I have a bunch of areabuttons which are currently being available/unavailable according to if a user is logged in or not. In addition i want the some of the buttons to be available/unavailable when i set a specific tag. This is working ok, but when i log out and in again, all the buttons turn available even though the bit isn't set. I then have to activate the bit and deactivate it again for the button to become unavailable again. Have tried changing to cyclic trigger and so on, but i can't seem to get it to work..
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5/25/2011 8:55 AM	Rate (0)
efka Posts: 799 Rating: (43)	Dear Struggling, maybe I'm wrong, but like your description, this should also be possible with the WinCC permissions in User Administrator. I think this would be a little more comfortable solution. best regards
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5/25/2011 9:19 AM	Rate (0)
Struggling Posts: 13 Rating: (0)	Thank you for reply efka. I can't really see how i can do that in User Administration, what I'm trying to do is: Required Userlevel * Available bit set (depending on a selected mode) = Button available. My problem is that even though the bit isn't set, the required user level activates the buttons when logging in. If i then turn the bit on and off again it becomes unavailable. When you're first logged in, it works as it should, but logging out and in resets the buttons. I would appreciate any ideas..
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5/25/2011 10:07 AM	Rate (0)
efka Posts: 799 Rating: (43)	With the user administrator permissions it is a little easier. You have to create your permission Levels in user administrator. This levels you have to assign to your several users. When you've done this, you have to open the picture with the @area_buttons. There you go to the properties of the several buttons. There you have the option "authorization". There you have to select the permission you need. I think this is what youwant to do, but in a littleeasier way best regards
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5/25/2011 10:42 AM
Jazz_M Gold Member Joined: 9/6/2008 Last visit: 5/7/2022 Posts: 1121 Rating: (86)	Hi What EFKA has said is right, It is simple to use user administrator, and select the are you want. Have fun...
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5/25/2011 11:09 AM	Rate (0)
Struggling Posts: 13 Rating: (0)	Thank you guys. Have tried a lot of that stuff earlier, but tried playing around a bit more with it now. Still can't get it to work. Please see attached pdf with a more detailed description of my problem. I have also tried creating my own button and not using the areabuttons in @areabuttons.pdl, then it actually works as it's supposed to, but by doing that I get some problems with for instance setting the backcolor when the picture is selected due to using several screens. If you could take a look at the pdf and come back with some more tips I would really appreciate it. Attachment Areabuttons.pdf (198 Downloads)
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5/25/2011 11:45 AM	Rate (0)
efka Posts: 799 Rating: (43)	Hello again, now I tried on my site in little test project and it works. I don't know, what is wrong in your project, because on the first look, the screenshots seem to be ok. Maybe your user administrator was already opened before you executed the OS Project editor. Is that possible? I tried also with normal buttons, "outside" of the basic process control (OS Project Editor), and this also works. Maybe you should also take a look into the WinCC Information System. There's a chapter called "Structure of the User Administration". I think this can be also very useful to you. So far best regards
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5/25/2011 12:15 PM	Rate (0)
Jazz_M Gold Member Joined: 9/6/2008 Last visit: 5/7/2022 Posts: 1121 Rating: (86)	Hi Well, I would personely recommend not to change the @.pdls, Because when you complie your OS project editor it will delete the changes that you have done. If you are struggling with this why us OS project editor, use normal method of screen changing, By using buttons only or Picture button change. have fun...
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5/27/2011 10:27 AM	Rate (0)
Struggling Posts: 13 Rating: (0)	Thank you guys, I got it working with "normal buttons", but then I had problems with setting the backcolor when I selected the picture, since I am running on split-screen. Couldn't get the SSMgetbuttoncolor to work properly. Logging in and out still overrides the actual bit-setting of the operator control enable/disable function on the areabuttons, but I eventually got it to work by getting the username and then toggling the bit when the username changes, so now it's working like i should. Thank you very much for the help anyways!
Struggling Posts: 13 Rating: (0)	Last edited by: Struggling at: 5/27/2011 10:28 AM
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5/27/2011 5:01 PM	Rate (0)
Jazz_M Gold Member Joined: 9/6/2008 Last visit: 5/7/2022 Posts: 1121 Rating: (86)	Hi Nice to hear that it is working. Good work... Have fun,...
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