Hi,

I have a faceplate in which I want to put a button to open another faceplate.

what could be the script for that button?

Sam1365

But I don't want to implement it using picture window. I want to create two independent faceplates and open one of them via a button from the other one.

Lets make clear what is your understanding of "faceplate". As in Siemens PCS7 the name faceplate is also used for a symbol instance insinde a window. Or do you mean with faceplate a popup window, for example where the motor control buttons are, if you are using the APL?

Popup windows always work with picture windows, there's no other solution inside WinCC.

In PCS7 your main windows is nested deep in a picture and picture window hierarchy, in most cases like @screen.@win12:@1001.@desk:your_picture

Where @screen is a pdl, @win12 is a picture window inside @screen, where @1001.pdl is loaded into, which itself has another picture windows @desk where the actual picture is loaded into, you can project inside the technological hierarchy of PCS7.

Hi,

Do you mean that you have 2 blocks in (different) CFC's. You open the main faceplate from the block icon and open the faceplate of the second block via the first faceplate?

Then you can use the JumpFaceplate1 button (on standard view) and JumpFaceplate2 button (on preview) by creating a connection in CFC between any output of the secondairy block and the respectecly input of the main block. then compile and download the OS server.

This works for all APL blocks.

When creating youre own blocks you can use this feature aswel, see following post forum link

Best regards,

Cedric

thanks for the explanation.

by faceplate I mean designing a picture and assign it to different FBs. for example, I have 10 motors and I want to create a faceplate and use it for all of them. however, I want to open a faceplate from another one. For example, I want to open interlock faceplate from the main faceplate of motor.