General Release V12.2.08

Newest Features in Version 12.2

• VTScada now support live monitoring of system processing load on the Application Manager and using Workstation Status driver tags.
• Alarm button widgets now can be disabled with custom logic.
• PLC Alarm tags now support inverted statuses and can write custom values to acknowledge alarms.
• SetShelved now supports pre-shelving of ad-hoc alarms and re-shelving of currently shelved alarms.
• All Select Image dialogs now support searching and sorting and retain their zoom level across the application.
• VTScada now enforces TOTP authentication when retrieving applications using the “Get from Workstation” feature for TOTP-enabled users.
• API support for converting a VTScada timestamp to ISO8601 time format and vice versa has been added.
• The Publisher API now supports publishing alarms.
• VTScada now has a widget that allows users to monitor the status of an application’s Rosters and to reset a Roster if it is in a failed state.
• A new function named NewTagsFullyStarted() is now available which indicates that tag updates from ModifyTags have fully completed.
• VTScada now provides an interface to get the last timestamp for a given history address in an Enron Driver.
• VTScada now supports individual selection of tag parameters when importing tags from a PLC.
• The Tag Browser now has a “Discretes” category when filtering tags. Custom discrete tag types can now use discrete equipment labels defined in a Style Settings tag.
• VTScada now supports both basic FTP and secure FTP (FTPS) as an FTP Client.
• The WindowsLogon function now returns the error code as an optional output parameter.
• VTScada Rate of Change tags now have the option to calculate their values locally without synchronization, reducing unnecessary RPC traffic in distributed systems.
• A new application setting, OPCServerRequestRateThreshold, has been added that will suppress publishing from the OPC Classic Server during periods of high subscription volume.
• Pages that a user cannot access will no longer appear in their page menu if HideInaccessiblePages is set to true.

New Features in Version 12.2

• The VTScada Batch and Recipe Management system now refers to recipe Ingredients as recipe Parameters in order to match the ISA 88 standard terminology.
• It is now possible to configure a default tag for any given *ReferenceType (e.g. *Driver, *Publisher, etc.) in the properties of an application. If no ancestor of that type is found, the reference will default the specified default tag for that type. This can be done in Settings.Startup in a [DefaultTagReferences] section where each unique *ReferenceType is a property whose value is the Name or UniqueID of a tag. Bonus: As a result of these changes, Tag Area Filtering can now use areas that have spaces.
• VTScada now allows for sibling tag linking for tag present at the root of the tag tree.
• VTScada now has hooks which disable all UI for acknowledging, shelving, and unshelving alarms.
• The Alternate ID for logging into an alarm notification voice call can be spoken if the application is configured to use Twilio.
• There is now support for loading and rendering SVG images.
• Users can now scan a QR code to activate or deactivate VTScada licenses on machines that are not connected to the Internet.
• VTScada is now compatible with Server 2025.
• VTScada now positions the “Properties” option at the top of context menus in multiple areas, including the Tag Browser, Alarm page, and tag widgets.
• The Idea Studio now supports zooming using Ctrl + mouse wheel scrolling.
• New keyboard shortcuts have been added to various tools and actions in the Idea Studio, Tag Browser, HDV, Alarm Page, Source Debugger and tag properties.
• Permissions and menu callbacks are now more easily available when creating custom alarm context menus.
• VTScada now supports adding non-commissioned alarms to alarm lists.
• VTScada now supports automatic linking to sibling historian tags.
• New functionality has been added for data structures in the Source Debugger, including expanding/collapsing all nodes in nested data structures, automatically refreshing values, filtering by keys and/or values, and toggling the data formats of all nodes.
• The calendar has a new look and feel.
• VTScada can now generate QR codes.
• VTScada now has built-in support for multi-factor authentication through time-based one-time passwords (TOTP), supported by standard authenticator applications.
• VTScada now supports sibling tags automatic linking.
• Sparkplug B publisher now supports incoming write commands.
• VTScada now supports a built-in Numeric on Screen Keypad for all Numeric Fields.
• The Source Debugger now has a binary display mode for numeric values.
• A new historian summarization (TPP) mode has been added which returns the last logged value within the time span.
• VTScada now allows fetching a list of connected printers using the new ListPrinters function.
• VTScada now supports printing HTML documents.
• The Oil and Gas Solutions layer now supports the FB3x Series of flow computer devices.
• A new “Forms” folder has been added to the widget palette which contains widgets for creating manual data entry forms.
• Support for linking an unlimited number of Meter Runs to a Flow Computer has been added. Meter Runs can now be placed anywhere in the tag hierarchy and linked to a Flow Computer.
• TCP transmit buffer sizes in VTScada are now dynamically managed by Windows for better performance.
• Tag Browser performance has been significantly increased in applications with realm filtering. Performance has also been improved when showing all children of a tag, and/or filtering by just type or area.
• Alarms can now be filtered by custom fields by default, with support for user-defined filtering via AlarmFilterHook.
• The Tag Browser now has a “Discretes” category when filtering tags. Custom discrete tag types can now use discrete equipment labels defined in a Style Settings tag.
• A new Publisher List tag type has been added. This tag will allow one I/O tag to publish its values to a list of multiple Publisher tags.
• Recipe Book tags can now be configured to track batch processes that are run externally to VTScada.
• A new page has been added to display details of a single batch given a Recipe Book tag, a Start Time and an End Time.
• A page and a widget have been added to display a list of historical batches run for all recipe books across an application.
• Recipes have been enhanced to allow for recipes with multiple steps.
• The OPC DA Publisher can now be linked to I/O tags as a publisher tag.
• All I/O tag types that support publishing now have a Publisher parameter that can be set to the name of a Publisher tag to which the I/O tag will publish its values. The parameter defaults to *Publisher so that the Publisher tag can be part of the ancestry of the I/O tag.
• VTScada now supports publishing using MQTT SparkplugB.
• The Report tag now supports a server list option, which improves redundancy and continuity for report generation.
• VTScada now supports sending historian data across a Data Diode device.
• An information dialog has been added to the tag properties dialog that makes it easier to view and copy the Name, UniqueID and Tag_ID values of a tag.
• A new Address Assist has been created for selecting Workstation Status Driver addresses.
• The display of digital plot lines in the Historical Data Viewer has been improved.
• VTScada now supports the retrieval of Current, Active, Disabled, Shelved, Suppressed and Unacked alarm tables as well as Control Locks, Tokens and Token Requests from a VTScada application using SQL queries.
• Instead of always exporting the full tag tree from the Export/Sync Tags panel, VTScada now supports restricting the export to just a subtree. This allows for faster exports and imports when dealing with just a subset of the tags.