I had installed a pretty “crappy” Edge extension that shows a realtime clock in the Toolbar of Edge, but we aren’t very happy with it for the MES screen (it works, but blah).
Has anybody created/developed a Realtime clock that shows on the Main MES screen that they can share with us? No interaction on the clock, we need to simply display it.
We’d like it to show either near the Login or to the right of the “time” that shows on the MES already that shows punch information… I’ve asked this here before, but have gotten little traction.
TIA for your thoughts/help.
Here is a screenshot of the top of the MES/DC screen where we would like to put it.
This probably isn’t the best way, but you could drop a website widget in and point it to something like Free Clocks for Your Website If you don’t need anything fancy that might be enough.
You can use those URLs to add a webapp to the layout. But you can’t set the font size.
I lied! Just paste the generated URL into a webapp on the layout, customize the font size with the last term in the URL.
Cool!!
That’s true, I just plucked the url out of the html they provide once you’ve picked a clock type. But if basic real time digital clock is all you need, might be good enough.
The Application Studio has a Website Widgit Control in the toolbox. You may try using the website above with this tool. I couldn’t get it to work, but I can’t get anything in Kinetic to work.
This would be about the same as our URL clock extension does in the browser now… MES tablets is not an option for us… we rejected that option, for our situation, on the various plant floors and have workstations set up.
I’ve included a snapshot of our MES screen that shows the extension, it’s okay - they can click on it and it does expand, but, if possible, we’d like a better situation with the real time clock display embedded in the MES screen itself.
I guess I should add the the MES stations are locked down and doesn’t show the Windows taskbar either (we use securelock, it’s amazing if anybody is looking for that solution).
This is actually super simple to do without doing a server side call (BAQ) if you do a server side call you can quickly overwhelm the server. I didn’t have time to put it in Data Collection but the process is the same.
Add a field to TransView (or equivalent) I called mine CurrentTime
The Draw your TextBox where you want it and bind it to TransView.CurrentTime give it the name of txtCurrentTime
New Event → On Control Created → txtCurrentTime
Update Row Set TransView.CurrentTime to Expression
'#_new Date().toLocaleString()_#'
Add To the Same event Set Dashboard Timer Interval 1 Second Event UpdateClock
Create UpdateClock event no trigger
Action Update Row Set TransView.CurrentTime to Expression
We can’t seem to find a way to remove the responsive icons for the clock and calendar app studio elements. Do you have any idea where that could be? The icons always look like they are in the wrong spot, or cover over text, depending on the screen size. See image.
