IoT & Connectivity

Step 3: Important Factors  Step 3: Important Factors If the company cannot ship or deliver their products fast enough, that will cause food waste and less revenue. At the same time, having nonstop access to meaningful data about the logistics side of the company provides a new level of decision-making capabilities. Let’s first see what some of the pitfalls are that causes bad logistics or room for improvement. We can keep these items in mind as we work on our application. Customer behavior – More attention can be put on how customers are shopping in certain areas. It’s not enough to know what areas are buying the most products and send them more shipments. Deadhead miles and load management will help save unnecessary costs.Shipment tracking and route planning – The traveling salesman problem is one that scientists have been working on for ages. There is no one solution to this problem, but there are many bad ones. Planning methods and routes is almost magic, bu

Step 2: Creating Machine Templates  Step 2: Creating Machine Templates Creating machine templates allows us to have specific levels of consistency with all of our machinery, no matter the purpose of the machine. As it goes towards more specific a machine, it will have it's own unique features and properties. In the ThingWorx Composer, click the + New in the top left of the screen. Select Data Shape in the dropdown. In the name field, enter Fizos.MachineInspections.DataShape and set a Project (ie, PTCDefaultProject). Click Save. All of our machine inspections will be based on this Data Shape.Add the list of fields below:NameBase TypeAspectsDescriptionGUIDGUIDPrimary keyString used as unique identifier for the inspectionFactoryIDInteger0 minimumFactory identifier at time of inspectionDateRequestDateN/ADate the inspection was requestedDateCompletedDateN/ADate the inspection was completedReportJSONN/AThis will hold

Hello Communtiy, For some time now I have been using the "Export as Source Control Entities" function and SourceTree when I want to save something in our internal source control system. However some of my colleagues use the PTC(?) built Git Mashup for the same functionality. What I have noticed is that when someone has used the Git Mashup for source control, the XML contains a "password" in the <Entities> universal tag.But when I have exported it using the Source Control Entities function the <Entities> universal tag is empty. This causes some quite annoying issues when trying to actually see what has been changed between commits as every single entity now looks changed. Does anyone have any ideas on what causes this? I suppose as a workaround I could add the "password" value in the tags manually. But if possible I would rather not. Thanks,Jens

Hi everyone, Does anyone know how to use SSO in TWX with OKTA as IdP? Thanks in advance, Caio 

Hi Team, I am looking to better understand/ best practice of storing PLC tag data from the machine,I am using Azure SQL as a persistence provider. Current architecture.We are logging roughly 100 tags (might scale to ~500) from one machine into the value streamWe have 10 such machines (planning to scale to ~50).We are logging the data in value stream to show data in the dashboard for monitoring like temp, head pressure etcDashboard can show data for 2days Then pushing rest of the data to datalake to have more historical data.With above configuration, we are getting around 3500 tags every min for 1 machine, When we scale to multiple and more tags, this number will surely grow and value stream being a table isn't able to handle. What are the different logic you use for this architecture ?What are best practises?Is having only parallel Azure IOT event hub to push data to datalake? Please suggest!

Dear member and adminWhat kepserver version which has multiple column mappings editing and also Siemens S7 PLus connectivity feature? I'm check V6.5 has feature multiple columns mappings editing which i can delete Itemid, Numericid and soon which i don't need but it doesn't have S7Plus connectivity.While in V6.13 it doesn't have multiple columns mappings editing.i need feature multiple columns mappings editing otherwise is painstaking job to delete one by one. 

Hello  ,   we had scenario in Kepware server  while connecting to OPC UA connection , whenever  your machine get offline and then again machine get online , we don't get the data , we had to reinitialize the server .   who can we automatic connect to the machine after the machine available (online) ? In Kepware server to OPC UA .  

Hi all, We store images uploaded by the user in a stream. I want to export the stream with images to excel and show the same in excel.  Please let me know if any method is there to do the same. Thanks in Advance. Yedukrishnan

I wanted to provide runtime permission to non admin and non member of ComposerUsers group to view the mashup and able to run the application. I have created Organization, in that organization, I have added user group which consists of the user for whom the app should be visible and executable. So as per the article - https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/CS341872  I have applied the required permissions. But for that user getting error as - Exception in WHR.EngPortal.Base.Thing::GetAdminPanelSections:TypeError: Cannot call method "CreateInfoTableFromDataShape" of null Note - for the Thing - WHR.EngPortal.Base.Thing I have provided the visibility permission, runtime permission and design time permission for that organization and user group. PFA screenshot of the same, but still I am getting this error. And for admin user, it is working fine. Also even when I add this user group or user to the ComposerUsers group at that time also It is working fine. Unable

Hi All ! I'd like to ask if you can help me solving my problem.(Thingworx 9.3) I have a Grid where the user can edit data. Data is saved to MS SQL database upon SAVE button. I want the users to use their login name and password for performing the save action, -> the concept would be a pop-up window to confirm the save,-> only if passsword matches the username, the data is saved to the database, otherwise it would notify user for invalid password and he can try again. -> by cancelling the signature process or closing the pop-up window, the save must not happen. Could you please advise how to make such "electornic signing" proccess ? Any advise on how to do such logic is greatly appreciated !  I've already made a mushup for signature purpuse , but cannot figure out how to pass/bind the "result" of the password validation from the pop-up mashup back to the mashup which triggered the pop-up. 

Hi everyone,   My question is suppose we have an Infotable like the below one.     Now what I want is filter these data based on Gender and School  Requirement: Like we have two dropdown in the mashup UI  one for Gender and another for School now if user Select any of the dropdown data should be filtered in the grid according to selection in the dropdown   please let me know how can I configure it in Thingworx 8.5 version   If Possible please share the exact solution  please share binding as well   Best Regards, Rayon.  

Hi everyone.I need to display in the same chart two data series. The common X-axis will be time of the entry and one Y-axis will display data using Bar-Chart, the second Y-axis will display data using Line-Chart. As you can understand, they should overlap in the same widget.We currently using Thingworx 9.3 and after I read article CS323245 I learned that only Label Chart is capable to do it.Our production team is concerned about it usage since its already marked as 'Legacy', and would probably cause troubles if we decide to update TW to next version.Is there any default/well maintained alternatives we can use?Thanks.Illya.

I need to get a 2D matrix barcode data from a PLC and split them into date, time, part number, cavity number, etc. and then save them into the database. Is it possible to do so?

I am trying to connect an external database from Trumpf Trutops Boost to Thingworx?  Has anyone tried this and were successful? I am using Thingworx 9.3.9 and Trutops Boost 15.06.22.71

Hello everybody.To create custom menus in Thingworx Apps we need to create records in 3 tables, as written in "https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/CS405431?source=search". They are menucontext, menu and menucontextlink. The first two tables have fields related to tokens. The menucontext table has the displaynametoken and descriptiontoken fields. The menu table has the fields displaynametoken, descriptiontoken and shortdescriptiontoken. The thingworx apps manual talks about some of these tokens very superficially. The menucontext table fields are not difficult to understand. But the others...Could anyone tell me where each of these tokens are used?ps. This doubt is also valid for icons. Where are they used? What are your sizes?Any help will be appreciated.Thanks.

Hi all I got the following error while installing thingworx on ubuntu-linux-20-04-desktop aarch64.Can I install Thingwork on the arch64 CPU? TomcatLog13:41:40,036 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender[AUTH] - File property is set to [/ext001/data001/ThingworxStorage/logs/AuthLog.log]/ext001/engn001/tomcat9.0/9.0.52/webapps/Thingworx/WEB-INF/extensions/libFlxCore64.so.2016.08: /ext001/engn001/tomcat9.0/9.0.52/webapps/Thingworx/WEB-INF/extensions/libFlxCore64.so.2016.08: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (Possible cause: can't load AMD 64-bit .so on a AARCH64-bit platform) ErrorLog2022-03-09 13:02:52.497+0000 [L: ERROR] [O: E.c.q.l.c.Logger] [I: ] [U: SuperUser] [S: ] [P: ] [T: main] **********LICENSING ERROR ANALYSIS2022-03-09 13:02:52.497+0000 [L: ERROR] [O: E.c.q.l.c.Logger] [I: ] [U: SuperUser] [S: ] [P: ] [T: main] Flex licensing file found: /ext001/engn001/tomcat9.0/9.0.52/webapps/Thingworx/WEB-INF/extensions/libFlxCore.so.

Hi @TanmeyTWX , I'm pretty new to thingworx, I came across this post while searching for the ptc-grid edit, previously by using the legacy grid widget it was pretty easy to use the grid, after upgrading to the new widget finding very much difficult to get the edit cell values(text, number, boolean or any type) I'm able to get only single row from the EditedData property of the ptc-grid. If possible can you put your listings to know how you have achieved the edit options.   Thank You, Balu

I have a JSON project file. I want to import this file to KepServerEx. What steps should get followed? Need help over this topic. 

We observed there is delay between Tag timestamp and current time, to study on this we need to calculate the delay between these two timings. How can we achieve this using advanced tags in Kepware. 

There is use case, where Line chart need to be populated based on the INFOTABLE output only, without any Datashape, as known, Without Datashape DataFields in the Line chart can't be selected and data will not be visible on the Mashup. is there any way, where datashape is not required to populate the data in the Line chart  ?Thingworx version: 9.3 @c_lowy @slangley @CarlesColl @paic @VladimirN Thanks,Shashi.

Hello community,   While doing tests on creating/deleting projects, I am trying to use the following function: let url = '.../Thingworx/' + entity.type + "s/" + entity.name var params = { headers: { "appKey": appKey, "Content-type": "application/json", "Accept": "application/json" } /* JSON */ , url: url /* STRING */ }; Resources["ContentLoaderFunctions"].Delete(params)   For some reason though it is SUPER slow (and seems to be causing me to not be able to delete entities manually in the composer at the same time). I do get the following error in my ScriptLog: JavaException: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out Eventually though, the entities are deleted and I can see this in the "ConfigurationLog":   Which confirms that the "Administrator" (user used for the AppKey during tests) had deleted the entities.   But what could be the reason for the time out issue?   Thanks, Jens C.

We have hosted Thingworx 8.5.1 in our local.We need upgrade to Thingworx 9.4.x. It is having multiple applications and data.Is that possible to host two thingworx instance (Installer and Manual) in same server? 

Is there any security mode in Kepware? Is there a document talking about kepware security?   Translated by the Community Moderation using Google Translate ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Há Algum modo de segurança no Kepware ? existe agum documento falando de seguraça do kepware

Hi.   I am trying a couple of ways to give the user a way to download the files in the below path: file://storagex/folder1/folder2/folder/xyx/pdfBelow are the ways I have tried:1. Link Widget(given path in the URL). didn't work 2. The Navigation function, given the path in the URL of the function, didn't work. 3. href, windows.open() of HTML/CSS, it didn't workDoes anyone have a way to do this?   Thanks,

Am I able to install KepserverEX on an Azure server and connect it to a PLC on a network at the factory? I'm using the Modbus TCP/IP Ethernet driver specifically. The PLC will have an internal IP address (e.g. 192.168.1.2), but that is not the public IP address. If Kepware is outside the factory network, then I'll need to use a public IP address when I configure the device, but then I don't know how to direct the connection request to the correct internal IP address. I've seen some questions about using ThingWorx to connect cloud and on-prem systems, but not KepserverEX. Do I need to use ThingWorx to do something like this?