OMRON NB-Designer OPERATION MANUAL (NB-series, 2020)

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Background Color: Determines the background color of the task bar. You can select the following colors

at “Default Colors” or select “Custom Colors” to configure any colors you want.

Undefined Area Color: When you click the undefined area, i.e. the area outside of working area for touchable

components or without the components, the Touch Indicator will change colors.

CPU Indicator Color: Refers to the color of CPU Indicator.

Alarm Indicator Color: Refers to the color of Alarm Indicator.

Touch Indicator Frame Color: Refers to the box color of the Touch Indicator.

Touch Unable Area Color: Refers to the Touch Indicator color shown when the nonclient area is

touched (including when expected effect is not realized after the

component(s) being touched).

Touch Area Color: Refers to the Touch Indicator color shown when the client area is touched (including

when related action(s) is (are) performed after corresponding component(s) or Menu

Bar etc. being touched).

Menu Button/Task Bar Button: Input the texts which should be displayed in the Task Bar and in the

location which displays the Menu Screen of the Task Bar.

Button Position: Refers to the positions of the Menu Button and Task Bar Button, i.e. “Left” and “Right”. If you

select “Right”, the Menu Button and the Task Bar Button will be placed in the lower-right corner

of the screen. On the contrary, they will be placed in the lower-left corner of the screen.

Text Position: The text alignment in the Menu Button and the Task Bar Button includes “Left”, “Right”

and “Center”.

Button Size: Refers to the width and height of the area where the button locates.

Font Size: Refers to the font size of the texts in the Menu Button and the Task Bar Button.

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PT Extended Properties

Backlight: How long (minute) the backlight will be closed when the screen is not touched.

Auto backlight during alarm/event: When it is checked, the backlight will automatically turn ON when

the alarm/event occurs.

Screen Saver: The duration until the screen saver is started after the inactivity.

Screen Saver Screen: After the screen. saver is checked, a certain screen can be selected as

Screensaver Screen.

Return to Original Screen when Screensavers Ends: When it is checked, the screen will return to the

Original Screen after the screensaver ends.

Allow Upload: Since the respects of the information disclosure, remove the check the check box when

prohibiting the upload.

Allow Decompilation: Allows the user to decompile and modify the PKG files generated by

configuration compilation after it is checked. For this function, a password

setting is required.

Number of Languages: Specify the number of the languages used in the project. The languages used

by the component of the PT is generally less than or equal to the maximum

language number. For example, the maximum language number is 7 and the

number of used languages is 5, the components in PT can only use 5 kinds of

languages. For the details, refer to 3-8-1 Text Library (Page 3-238).

Default Language: Refers to the default language when the project is opened originally.

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Disable Auto Resize: Temporarily disables the set Auto Resize function for all components in the

project data.

System Scroll Bar Width: Refers to the component with the scroll bar such as operation log

component. The width of the scroll bar can be set with this option and the

width range is from 20 to 120 pixel point. When the spacing is 4 (i.e. 20, 24,

28 and so on), the scroll bar can be displayed effectively.

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Use Macro when loading project: Refers to the Macro file run firstly when the unit starts processing

the project file after it starts.

Use Buzzer: When the component of the PT is pressed or the “Beep Function” is set for the Alarm or

the Event, check the check box.

Chinese Font Box Height: Sets the height of text input box and the default value is 24.

When inputting the characters in Pinyin form, the Chinese font box height can be adjusted between 24

and 99 (pixel).

Perform the offline test and the effect is as shown below:

When the Chinese font box height is 24:

When the Chinese font box height is 34:

Chinese font box height can be adjusted

Use External Clock: After it is checked, the values in the memory of LW9010 to LW9017 are adopted

as the event occurrence time, and internal clock of the PT are not adopted.

Note Using this function needs to use Data Transmission component to transfer the data in the time memory of

PLC to LW9010-LW9017 periodically.

LW9010: Second

LW9011: Minute

LW9012: hour

LW9013: Date

LW9014: Month

LW9015: Year

LW9016: Week (unavailable)

LW9017: Millisecond

In the following example, we will use the Data Transmission component to transfer the values in the

time memory of PLC to LW9010~LW9017 periodically.

i.e. transfer SD100 to LW9015, SD101 to LW9014, SD102 to LW9013, SD103 to LW9012, SD104 to

LW9011 and SD105 to LW9010.

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Vector Font Smooth Display:

The characters can be made smooth, beautiful and no-alias by using “Vector Font Smooth Display”.

But using this function can increase the computations of the PT, and may affect the processing speed

of the PT with the slower speed of refreshing of the PT. Therefore, if the user doesn’t have the higher

requirements for the vector font display but have the requirements for the faster refreshing speed of the

PT, please do not check this option. The default is checking “Vector Font Smooth Display”.

This function doesn’t support Event Setting, Event, Alarm, Alarm List, List, Drop-down List, Data History

components and Operation Log component.

The comparison effect of checking and not checking the [Vector Font Smooth Display] is shown as

below:

The effect of checking [Vector Font Smooth Display]: The effect of not checking [Vector Font Smooth

Display]:

It is obvious that the edges after being handled are more smooth and no-alias.

Flip Screen Display:

The optimal visual angle for the screen of the PT is front view. If the screen needs to be seen by the

overlooking method, i.e. from top to bottom, in some special occasions, the display effect will become

poor; and the “Flip Screen Display” is added to turn the screen reversely to obtain the same display

effect as viewed from the front.

There are 2 methods for Flip Screen Display:

Method 1: Enter [PT Extended Properties] tab in PT Property, check [Flip Screen Display], and the

display is reversed after it is downloaded to the screen. And the screen will keep as Flipped Display

after the power failure or restart of the screen.

Perform the offline test and the effect is as shown below:

Method 2: The flipping of the screen is controlled by the local special memory LB9163 (LB9163 is

read/write type.). When LB9613 is turned ON, the screen is displayed vertically-flipped. When the

flipped screen display function is controlled by LB9163, the flipping function can’t be maintained after

the power failure or restart of the screen.

Example: Place a Bit Switch with the address of LB9163 and Property of “Alternate” in the screen.

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When LB9163 is ON, the display is flipped; while LB9163 is OFF, the screen is displayed in the normal

direction. Perform the offline test and the effect is as shown below:

Operation Log Storage Setting: Stores the operation log in the specified subfolder of the specified

storage device. Two storage types are available; One is to "store the

operation log by day and record them into the file named in "yyyy

mmdd" form", and the other is to "store the operation log by the

number of records and record them into the file with the name of

"Subfolder Name".

By setting the size of Buffer Storage, the data is written into the

memory when the size is reached to the pre-set size. (Default:

writing operation will immediately be performed)

By setting the Storage Period, the upper limit can be set for the

operation logs amount with the unit of "Day" for Daily File and

"Record" for Single File. When the [Daily File] is selected, the file will

be named in "yyyy mmdd" form and the Storage Period is the upper

limits of the number of CSV files in this path; if the Storage Period is

exceeded, the oldest file will be deleted. If the [Single File] is

selected, the file will be named in "Subfolder Name" form, the

Storage Period is the upper limit of the records archived in the file;

the archived records are reached to the Storage Period, the storage

will not be continued.

By setting the Save as ms, the data sampling time accuracy

changes to the millisecond and records it into the CSV file.

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Common Sheet Screen Attributes: Determines the Common Sheet for the project program to be

displayed above or below the Base Screen.

Pop-up Screen Attributes: Specify the pop-up screen whether if it is displayed on top of the screens

or not.

Initial Screen: The screen is displayed at first by the PT after the unit is started in user project mode.

The default is Frame 0.

Common Sheet: Refers to the No. of Common Sheet of the project. The default is Frame 1.

Menu Screen: Refers to the No. of Menu Screen of the project. The default is Frame 2.

File Browser Screen: Refers to the No. of Browser File Screen of the project. The default is Frame 5.

Confirmation Screen: Refers to the No. of Confirmation Screen of the project. The default is Frame 7.

Unable-to-Input Display Color:

The role of invalid component marks: When the enable condition isn’t met or is invalid, using this option

can set invalid component mark to indicate this component can’t be used currently and the touch is not

effective. Only the control components such as switch and Command Button component etc. can use

invalid component marks, and the display components such as Lamp and Word Lamp component etc.

don’t support the invalid component marks.

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Example: When the value of LW0 is 0, only M0 (Bit Switch) can be operated. When the value of LW0

isn’t 0, M0 (Bit Switch) canot be operated, and the invalid mark

will be displayed in the

color which was specified.

(1) Setting of Unable-to-Input Display Color: Double-click PT Property and enter [PT Extended

Property] tab to select “red” as the Unable-to-Input Display Color.

(2) Place one Bit Switch, i.e. M0, and set the enable conditions in the [Control Setting] tab for it,

and then select [Conditional Enabling], [Word] LW0=0 and select [Show Unable-to-Input].

(3) Place one Number Input component LW0.

(4) Perform the offline test. And when LW0=0, M0 can be operated; and when LW0=50, M0

can’t be operated and the invalid mark will be displayed. The effect is shown as below.

Cursor Color: Sets the cursor color for the component with the cursor such as Number Input

component and Text Input component etc.

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System Information Setting

The message in default can be changed to the required text.

Enter the [System Information Setting] tab in PT Property, select the [Use User-Defined System

Information] option to enter the corresponding text to the item of selected system information in the text

box. This text supports Vector Font and Bitmap Font, as shown above.

Example: Change “PLC No Response” to “No Response”.

(1) Enter the [System Information Setting] tab in PT Property.

(2) Select “2: PLC No Response” in the drop-down box of the system information, and check

the [Use User-Defined System Information] option and input “No Response” in the text

input box.

(3) Use the Vector Font with the following settings, i.e. AR PL UMing CN, the size of 16, red

and Bold.

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Security Levels Setting

The security level is classified into 16 levels (0 to 15) in the NB-Designer. One 8-digit number password

can be set for each level at the request of the users, and the greater the level number, the higher the

level. 15-level is the highest and 0-level is the lowest. When the security level is 0, it means no

password. 0 can’t be used for setting the password.

Number of Security Levels is 3 by default in PT Property, and it can be opened to 16 levels in the

Security Levels Setting tab.

After the security level password is set, the user can use each group of specified passwords to perform

screen and component managements. For example, after the screen security level is set to “2”, the

screen can be switched to by inputting the user password; otherwise this screen can’t be entered

during the operation.

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Example: Set 16-level security passwords for the project.

(1) Set “Number of Security Levels” in PT Property to 16 accompanying the passwords for

each level of security level 1 to 15.

(2) Use a double-word Number Input component with address of LW9040 as Frame 0 for

inputting the password. LW9042 is used to display the security level and LW9043 is used to

switch the security level forcefully. The 15 Function Keys are used to switch Frame 8 to

Frame 22 respectively.

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Set the screen security levels and make Frame 10 correspond to Security Level 1, Frame

11 correspond to Security Level 2, …, and Frame 24 correspond to Security Level 15.

(3) Perform the offline test or download it to the screen to check the password level function.

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User Permission Setting

The software opens 32 users and 32 operation permissions for free use. The users and operation

permission can be set separately, and the operation permission is not limited to the users. And the

online user addition/deletion and permission modification can be done in the PT.

User Permission Setting

Check the [Enabled] option and input the contents to the User Name, Password, Logoff Time

and Authorization.

User Name: Refers to the login name and the defaults are usr0 to usr31. The user name

supports any characters.

Password: Refers to the login password, and the default is 888888. The password only

supports the number instead of the other characters. The password ranges from 1 to

4294967295. And 0 can’t be used for setting password.

Logout Time: Refers to the valid time for this user permission and the default is 10 minutes.

After 10 minutes, this user permission will be automatically cancelled, and the operation

permission can be obtained by inputting the password again. The logoff time ranges from 0 to

4294967295 minutes. When the Logout Time is specified to 0 minute, the user permission is

always valid.

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For example:

(1) For the User Permission Setting of User 0: Check the [Enabled] option and set the User

Name to Administrator, Password to 666666 and Logout Time to 1 minute. Assign 4

Authorities, i.e. Operation Permission, Process Permission, System Config Permission and

Add/Delete User Permission respectively for the “Administrator (User 0)”.

(2) For User Permission Setting of User 1: Check the [Enabled] tab and set the User Name to

Engineer, Password to 222222 and Logoff Time to 10 minutes. Assign 1 Authority, i.e.

Process Permission to the “Engineer (User 1)”.

Besides the User Permission Setting in PT Property, using the following internal memory

allows the operations concerning the user permission.

Addresses

Functions

Descriptions

LW9486~LW9501

Input the login user name.

32 characters max.

LW9502~LW9503

Input the password corresponding

Double-word

to the login user.

LW9504~LW9505

Display the current user authority.

Double-word, read-only component, the

corresponding 32 authorities.

LB9165

Execute the user login.

After it is turned ON, the login operation is

performed, and later it is turned OFF automatically.

LB9166

Execute the user logout.

After it is turned ON, the logout operation is

performed, and later it is turned OFF automatically.

Dynamically Add/Delete User Permission during operations.

Perform adding or deleting the user permission during operations in the PT. The following

internal memory is used for adding or deleting the user permission during operations.

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Addresses

Functions

Descriptions

LW9486~LW9501

Input the login user name.

32 characters max.

LW9502~LW9503

Input the password

Double-word

corresponding to the login user.

LW9506~LW9507

Assign the user authority.

Double-word, Read/Write component, 32 authority

assignments. LW 9506 to LW 9507 corresponds to

32 authorities (No. 0 to 31) and LW.B corresponds

to each bit in LW 9506 to LW 9507. For example:

LW.B 9506.0 represents the authority of No. 0; and

LW.B 9506.A represents the authority of No. 10.

LW9508~LW9509

Logout time

Double-word, Unit: minute

LW9510~LW9511

Add/Delete user confirmed

Double-word

password.

LB9167

Add the user permission.

After it is turned ON, the operation is completed and

later it is turned OFF automatically.

LB9168

Delete the user permission.

After it is turned ON, the operation is completed and

later it is turned OFF automatically.

LB9169

Modify the password

After it is turned ON, the current user password will

be modified, and later it is turned OFF

automatically.

z Setting Permission Control of Component:

Select the [Conditional Enabling] option in the [Control Setting] tab of “Bit Button Component

Property” and check [Use Permission Control], as shown below.

Setting “Use Permission Control” for the component means only the user having this operation

authority can operate the component restricted by this authority.

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Create a new screen as the user permission password input screen:

Firstly, place one Text Input component for inputting the user name with the address of LW9486 and

the maximum word length up to 16 (Here it is 10.).

User Login

User Name:

Password:

Secondly, place one Number Input component for inputting the password with the address of

LW9502, the word length of 2 and the data type of [password].

User Login

User Name:

Password:

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Input the User Name to be added, set the Password and the Password Confirm, and

then set the Logout Time for this user and assign the Permission. After the setting,

click “ADD” to complete “Add User” operation.

(b) Delete User

“Delete User” screen contains User Name, Password, Password Confirm, Delete User

Operation etc.

The settings of User Name, Password and Password Confirm are similar to that of

“Add User”.

Delete User Operation Confirmation: Place one Bit Button component and specify the

address to LW9168 and the switch format to [Set].

Note Delete user permission operation is only valid for the users added to the PT. The users set in the NB-

Designer can’t be deleted.

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Event History Setting

Event History information is stored in the Recipe Data Field.

When the check box [Save to Recipe Data Field] in the [PT Property] is checked, the system stores the Event

History information of executed Event to the Recipe Data Field. Since the system automatically performs the

storing, the user does not have to care about the method to store the Event History information.

The destination to store the data will be specified from the address set in [Start Address] of the system

parameters. The default address is “0”.

The data stored to the Recipe Data occupies 16 words for each event. The example of size calculation to

store the Event Log is shown as below. The data which was stored in the Recipe Data cannot be exported to

external memory.

An example when the starting address of the data to “100” in [Event History Setting] of [PT Property]

In order to store the Even Log Data, the system automatically reserves a memory area starting from

RW100 in the Recipe Data Field. For example, the Event Log management information and 200 of

Event History information are stored as below.

Recipe Data Field address

Data

RW100

1st Historical Event

RW116

2nd Historical Event

RW132

3rd Historical Event

RW148

4th Historical Event

⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅

RW3268

199th Historical Event

RW3284

200th Historical Event

The size of the stored memory is 200 x 16 = 3200 words. The address of Recipe Data Field is “read

only area”. If writing is performed to the area, it may result in unpredicted condition. Although the user

can specify the starting address freely, pay attentions to the following points.

(1) The specified addresses cannot be specified overlapped with other components and others.

• When the storage period is set, the file deletion is performed at the first sampling after the startup and

every 24 hours. At this moment any files which is beyond the storage period should be deleted.

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