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  1. What does the Shared Tags folder store?
  2. How to count how many tags are configured in the application database?
  3. How to visualize the application “Users� created with the function CreateUser() ?
  4. How to shutdown the operating system automatically after closing the application?
  5. How to insert and configure an Active-X object in a Studio application?
  6. How to set a startup screen?
  7. How to insert a background picture on the screen?
  8. How to convert the history trend to ASCII file?
  9. How to delete records from an Excel or Text file database, via ODBC?
  10. How to execute a math sheet during the startup and other math sheet during the application shutdown?
  11. How to insert a driver in the POV application?
  12. How to set a “communication error� alarm?
  13. How to start and stop communication drivers during the runtime?
  14. How to exchange data with Excel by using NetDDE?
  15. Is Studio OPC interface compliant with OPC specification v1.0a or v2.0?
  16. How do I start POV automatically when the computer is powered on?
  17. How to modify the DATE format in Studio?
  18. What features are not supported by Web thin Clients?
  19. What are the main steps to create a web-based application?
  20. The runtime task (TCP/IP, OPC, DDE, ODBC, etc) does not work.
  21. The Browser from the Web Thin Client does not display the screen and launches a warning message regarding ISSymbol.ocx.
  22. Browse of the Web Thin Client launches an error message missing the ISSymbol.ocx and does not display the screens from the Server.
  23. The screens are shown on the Web Thin Client (Browser); however, the data (tags values) are not read from the Server.
  24. The “On Up� expressions configured in the Command dynamic are not executed.
  25. The Trend History does not work after adding or removing tags in the Trend worksheet.
  26. The value of indirect tags ( @<TagName> ) are not shown in the web thin client application.
  27. I get errors when installing Point of View that the Sentinel Driver ‘appears to have failed’.
  28. How does Point of View Count Tags?
  29. Can I check my Point Of View USB Key to see if the driver is installed correctly etc..?
  30. What are the differences between “Development� package, “Development Only� package, and “Runtime� package?
  31. How does Point of View count the number of Thin Clients?
  32. Can I use spaces in my screen names? OR...Why can't I see my screens in my Thin or Secure Client?
  33. Q:My P3 Integrated tags stopped working, or show ???? OR.....Do I have to keep the .CSV file from P3 Tag Integration with the PoV project?
  34. Q:My standard driver sheet(s) is locking up / updating slowly. What is the problem?
  35. When using the Tag integration with the Productivity series and Point of View, and you use a single index of an array, does the single index count against your Project tag count or the entire size of an array?


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