Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk View Site Edition Users Guide - Manual (Page 54)

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Selected components are added to the Explorer, under the editor’s icon.
Naming components
When you name a component in FactoryTalk View Studio, the file name is created on disk
automatically. The component name shown in the Explorer window becomes part of the
file name.
FactoryTalk View supports long file names with a maximum limitation of 260 characters
including spaces. When considering a filename, you need to keep in mind four characters
for the extension (.gfx) and all the characters necessary for the path leading to the file. The
remainder would be the number of characters, including spaces, you can use for a file
name.
Different files will be dependent on the path where they reside.
For example, including spaces, there are 115 characters in the following path and file
name, as the limit is 260, leaving 145 additional characters, including spaces, allowable:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\RSView Enterprise\SE\HMI
Projects\InstantFizz_SE\Gfx\cip overview.gfx
Another example path is shown below, it is based on saving a macro:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\RSView Enterprise\SE\HMI
Projects\InstantFizz_SE\Mcr
That is 108 total characters just for the path, 260 - 108 = 142. The filename can be up to
142 characters including spaces and allowing 4 characters for the extension.
Using component names that contain spaces
Component names can contain spaces, like the graphic display name in the previous
example. When using component names with spaces in commands, you might need to
enclose the component names in double quotes (“ ”).
For example, to load a parameter file with spaces in its name, you would type the
following Display command:
Display Screen1 /P”Bottling Line 1”
To select several consecutive components, click the first component you want to select,
press the Shift key, and then click the last component. To select several individual
components, press the Ctrl key, and then click each component.
For information about the command syntax for specific FactoryTalk View commands, see the
FactoryTalk View Site Edition Help.