Hello Bruce, 

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Else, any other solution ?

do you know "How do you create faceplates with user authorizations in WinCC (TIA Portal)"?

Regards,

Frink 

I had a similar problem.
I use TIA WinCC v15 Prof.
To solv, I do this:
1. create internal tag "user_name" Uint and accept as Process with symbolic I/O field on MainScreen 
2. ​create any users in "User administrator"
3. ​create text list "USER_NAME" and accept as Contents with symbolic I/O field on MainScreen 
4. Write CScript 

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Hi Murof

I have currently about 200 instances of the same faceplate on several views. 

You mean that I have to add a 'current_user_level' property inside the faceplate and then connect one by one this property of all existing faceplate instances to a general Tag that contains the current user level. 

What the use of creating a faceplate property that will have always the same tag name ???

The best would be to access value of global tags so that we don't have to pass it in parameter through a faceplate property. 

Another exemple : suppose a generic project in which there is a global tag 'alarm_default_color' containing the general default color in case of alarms (yellow or orange depending of the customers demand)
If I want to use this default color in a faceplate that will appear many times on screen, you are telling me that I have to create a property called 'default_color' in the faceplate and link this property to the same 'alarm_default_color' tag for all faceplate instances of the project ?

This is so heavy to handle and totally useless (and so stupid, no ?)

But, maybe, there is another solution to handle this ?

Regards