RE: Please give us feedback!

Rob H

First, a thank you to the PLCnext team. PLCnext has come a long ways in the past year. I would like to suggest a few feature requests that would enhance my PLCnext experience and capabilities: 

1. Keyboard shortcuts to connect/disconnect and debug mode as it is with sending a project. 
2. When connected to a controller, it is not possible to 'Add HMI Symbol' under HMI > Local > Symbols. This is something that trips me up. 
3. The ability to pass a data type as a parameter to a symbol would greatly improve HMI functionality. 
4. This may be something I am just unaware of, but I would like the ability to create custom dialog boxes in the HMI. Similar to the functionality of the login page. 
5. Again something I may be unaware of, but I would like the ability to see/control the active screen of an HMI client. 

Frank Phoenix Contact Deutschland Support

Hey Rob,

sorry for the late feedback, but I've some good news from you coming from our PLCnext Engineer Product Manager.

1. Keyboard shortcuts are in development, so this will come soon
   
   
2. With version 2021.0 it is possible to add a HMI page during a controller is connected, it is not possible during debug mode. 
   
   
3. This is possible with PLCnext Engineer 2021.0 possible, you can use arrays, structs and array of structs inside a symbol.
   
   
   
4. You can call also pup ups. Just create a page with as pup and call it from the parent page.
   The user returns to the parental page by closing the pupup.
   
   
   
   
5. For now this is unfortunately not possible, but we've it in our backlog!
   
   

And the best is, that PLCnext Engineer is already released and available for download! ?

So, thank you once again for the valuable feedback, this helps us a lot to improve our products!

Take care,

Frank

Btw.:
The FW 2021.0 LTS were just released for AXC F 1152/2152 and will be available in the download center within the next days (change notes have to be created).