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TIA Portal Upgrade from V12 to V13 Deleted HMI

Created by: Mike.Mc at: 8/5/2014 10:11 PM (9 Replies)

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8/5/2014 10:11 PM	Rate (0)
Mike.Mc Posts: 46 Rating: (8)	I have V13 loaded and am trying to use it. When I upgrade a project from V12 to V13 I lose my HMI ini the project tree. This top graphic is before the upgrade. You can see HMI_1 in the tree: The lower graphic is after the upgrade. HMI_1 is gone! I’ve tried it with several applications. Some work, some do not. I have tried it by upgrading automatically after opening it and by doing it manually after opening it as a V12 project. I've tried recompliling before upgrading. The HMI disappears. The HMI is still there in the network, but not in the project tree. Any ideas? Attachment junk1.jpg (212 Downloads)
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8/5/2014 10:17 PM	Rate (0)
0_Einstein Diamond Expert Joined: 7/7/2010 Last visit: 1/23/2025 Posts: 15555 Rating: (2467)	Mike.Mc I have V13 loaded and am trying to use it. When I upgrade a project from V12 to V13 I lose my HMI ini the project tree. This top graphic is before the upgrade. You can see HMI_1 in the tree: The lower graphic is after the upgrade. HMI_1 is gone! I’ve tried it with several applications. Some work, some do not. I have tried it by upgrading automatically after opening it and by doing it manually after opening it as a V12 project. I've tried recompliling before upgrading. The HMI disappears. The HMI is still there in the network, but not in the project tree. Any ideas? I had a semi-similar experience brining in a WinCC 2008 project into V13. I sent to Siemens Support and they upgraded and sent it back to me. I asked what they did and oddly enough, they went through V12 to get to V13, which is precisely what you are doing, except you had to same result as me -- no upgrade. Is your WinCC V13 at least the same level as your V12? Or, like me, do you have a professional V13 portal, and basic V13 WinCC and try to upgrade a non-basic HMI? Just curious if it's just me that gets all the license issues and software installs out of sync. Do you also have the latest update applied to V13 (I think that's currently update 3)?
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8/5/2014 11:05 PM	Rate (0)
Mike.Mc Posts: 46 Rating: (8)	I have the latest V12 and the latest V13, Update 3. I just loaded it last night. They are both TIA Portal Basic. I tried a couple of other projects. Some upgrade, others get the HMI deleted. Only the HMI, never the PLC. I sent one application to our local tech support to see if he can upgrade it. I am using WIN 7, 64 bit.
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8/5/2014 11:19 PM	Rate (0)
0_Einstein Diamond Expert Joined: 7/7/2010 Last visit: 1/23/2025 Posts: 15555 Rating: (2467)	Mike.Mc I have the latest V12 and the latest V13, Update 3. I just loaded it last night. They are both TIA Portal Basic. I tried a couple of other projects. Some upgrade, others get the HMI deleted. Only the HMI, never the PLC. I sent one application to our local tech support to see if he can upgrade it. I am using WIN 7, 64 bit. Did you review the migration log in the output pane and get any ideas why the hmi was not being migrated?
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8/5/2014 11:38 PM	Rate (0)
ChristophD Grandmaster-Expert Joined: 5/12/2006 Last visit: 1/23/2025 Posts: 22506 Rating: (3046)	Hi, i have mak a short test. Create a project with the device likes yours in V12.0 and open it in V13.0 UPD3. There are no problems , all HMI devices in the Three You can lock on the conversionlog.xml in the project directory of the original project if any error occurs . Regards Christoph

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8/6/2014 12:30 AM

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Here is the log. The system thinks it has successfully upgraded the project! But the HMI is gone.

	Upgrade started	8/5/2014 12:41:29 PM
	Reading information from previous project/library.	8/5/2014 12:41:30 PM
	Updating new project/library.	8/5/2014 12:41:34 PM
	Updating new project/library.	8/5/2014 12:41:35 PM
	To finish upgrade of the project, select the menu command "Edit > Compile" for each device in the project.	8/5/2014 12:41:36 PM
	Updating new project/library.	8/5/2014 12:41:37 PM
	Saving the upgraded project/library.	8/5/2014 12:41:37 PM
	Project 'Loses HMI' was successfully upgraded and saved as project 'Loses HMI_V13'.	8/5/2014 12:41:37 PM

8/6/2014 1:13 AM	Rate (0)
Mike.Mc Posts: 46 Rating: (8)	RESOLVED! Our local tech support guy found the answer. The HMI has to be upgraded to V12 in the project before upgrading. Select HMI, change device, select new V12 version and save. When downloaded it upgrades the HMI firmware.
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8/6/2014 1:16 AM	Rate (0)
ChristophD Grandmaster-Expert Joined: 5/12/2006 Last visit: 1/23/2025 Posts: 22506 Rating: (3046)	Hi, have you in the project befor a HMI version < V11 ? I have nake this thest with HMI Version V11 and V12, and it works correctly on my site. Regards Christoph

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8/6/2014 4:35 AM	Rate (0)
Mike.Mc Posts: 46 Rating: (8)	Some of my applications are upgrading while keeping the V11 HMI configuration. In others the HMI gets deleted. But changing it to V12 before the upgrade seems to be working. I have dozens of applications. I hope this fixes this bug. I wasted about 5 hrs on it.
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8/6/2014 5:09 AM	Rate (0)
0_Einstein Diamond Expert Joined: 7/7/2010 Last visit: 1/23/2025 Posts: 15555 Rating: (2467)	Be careful to inspect the screens. I had one button consistently get deleted - the home button !!!
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