Lookout Web Export Controls Fail

[Jer-Spice]

Hello,

We've created a rather advanced system to monitor temperature sensors among other thing via a modbus and while I'm able to see all the Lookout controls inside Lookout itself, the minute I try and export the files to the web server Lookout immediatly throws an error message 'error activex control can not run in a client version of lookout: 'Modbuses\ModbusMainCP'. The modbus.cbx we're using is the standard one that comes with Lookout. The Lookout development server is also the web server and all I want is for people to be able to login to the server and view the data in the development environment. Is someone familiar with the export process and can help walk me through this?

Thanks. 

[Mike@DTSI]

Client software cannot run the Driver objects that the server has.  Only runtime versions of the software can run drivers.  Web-client and Client player cannot.

Mike

[Jer-Spice]

Thanks very much for the quick response. So if Lookout is incapable of allowing web modbus access to change or control settings on the local server is it possible inside LabView... or any other product? This station is going to be monitored locally for a short time, but then largely monitored remotely and while remote desktop may be an option, the requirement that is be available via the web is an important one.

On a side note, is it possible to easily connect to the Citadel database with a web front end to simply display data even if I can't change/configure?

Thanks again for your response,

Jeremy 

[Mike@DTSI]

What you need to do is create a client process.  This process would connect the current process you have, which use the driver

Example: A pot to change a register in a mdbus device. 

Service process: Modbus Driver and a Pot.  The pot has a connection on the remote value of Modbus1.40790 to connec to the driver object

Client process: Pot.  The pot has its remote value connected to the server pot.value member.

hmm cant unindent...  There is an example available on the Developer Exchange of this process as well.

Edit: Found it:  http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/3989

Good luck,

Mike

Message Edited by Mike@DTSI on 01-20-2009 05:18 PM

[Jer-Spice · Accepted solution]

Thanks so much! This is exactly what I was looking for. I actually found a little bit of information just digging through google but the above link will be of great help.

Regards and thanks again,

Jeremy 

[Mike@DTSI]

No problem, took me a while to learn about it myself, forums werent here then 🙂

Good luck

Mike

[Alban01]

Good afternoon,

I'm an engineering student and have a job to implement a SCADA system in a didactic bench. One aim is be able to monitor the system on a page on the college network via other devices. Can you help me?

Alban

[Mike@Forshock]

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