Highlights, Features, Release Notes Version 3.11 SP 1

Highlights

Update of the supported Operating Systems

With WinCC OA 3.11 Service Pack 1, the supported platform portfolio was enhanced so you can use your projects on a wider range of operating systems. Two new supported operating systems were added:

Windows 8 Enterprise

WinCC OA 3.11 Service Pack 1 provides support for your WinCC OA UI client projects using Microsoft's new operating system. For more details, see: Software requirements. Please consider the necessary Permissions for the installation and usage of WinCC OA 3.11 Service Pack 1

WinCC OA 3.11 Service Pack 1 - Windows 8

Caution

Please note that the usage of WinCC OA 3.11 Service Pack 1 as development and server system is not supported for Windows 8

Solaris 10 (x86)

WinCC OA 3.11 Service Pack 1 provides support for Solaris 10 (x86). For more details see: Software requirements and Installation under Solaris

Improvements of Ultralight Client and ScriptWizard

The Ultralight Client and the Script Wizard now have several new features and general optimizations with WinCC OA 3.11 Service pack 1. The following information describes the changes:

New Clock Widget

The clock widget is now available in the Ultralight Client. See Clock Widget

WinCC OA Ultralight Client - Clock Widget

New Context Menu

The ScriptWizard can now create context menus. See: Show context menu

WinCC OA Ultralight Client - Context Menu

Integration of the WinCC OA Documentation

To give the users additional help for controlling the UI the WinCC OA documentation was integrated into the ScriptWizard and the Ultralight Client. A simple selection of the needed keyword provides the necessary information to the user. For more information see Open HTML help and Compatible functions - std_help().

WinCC OA ScriptWizard - Open HTML help

Support of Tooltip Texts

WinCC OA Service Pack 1 supports the displaying of tooltip texts in the Ultralight Client.

Performance Optimizations

The loading duration of the Ultralight Client was decreased with WinCC OA 3.11 Service Pack 1

Added new compatible functions

The list of the compatible functions has increased and provided in the chapter Compatible functions chapter.

Support of Touch Gestures

The support for scrolling via touch gesture was added for selected objects in WinCC OA 3.11 Service Pack1 to provide easy use of the Ultralight Client on mobile devices

Improvement of the Trend Widget

The Ultralight Client Trend Widget was enhanced and now supports more functions known from the WinCC OA UI.

iframe Support

The client was enhanced so the Ultralight Client can be displayed in your own website. The Ultralight Client can now be embedded inside an iframe.

WinCC OA Ultralight  Client - iframe

Features

Multi selection mode for selection list

The WinCC OA 3.11 selection list was enhanced and a new multi selection mode was added. The selection list also contains new functions: "selectedItems", "selectedPositions" and "selectionMode"

Support of SNMP Array Addresses

WinCC OA 3.11 Service Pack 1 supports the usage of array addresses for the SNMP periphery address configuration. This allows the querying of multiple addresses with only one address configuration. See: Defining the peripheral addresses of the SNMP driver

Release Notes

Installation of WinCC OA 3.11 Service Pack 1

To correctly install WinCC OA 3.11 Service Pack 1 the previous versions of WinCC OA 3.11 must be removed and afterwards a new installation of WinCC OA 3.11 Service Pack 1 must be performed.

Installation & Configuration - Windows 7

Please note the following requirements for the installation and usage of the project administration of WinCC OA 3.11 Service Pack 1. For Windows 8, it is necessary to start the setup as well as the project administration with administrative permissions (Right-click > "Run as administrator").

For Windows 7 the project administration must be started with administrative permissions; otherwise no new projects can be created, registered or deleted.

To permanently start the project administration with administrative permissions, you can apply the corresponding settings using the compatibility menu (Right-click > "Properties" > "Compatibility").

For Windows 8, please note that only deactivating the User Account Control (UAC) is not sufficient to allow a valid installation and the usage of the project administration. The Setup.exe as well as the WCCOAui.exe must be started with administrative permissions (Right-click > "Run as administrator").

User-developed Drivers / API Managers / Ctrl-Extensions

It is necessary to recompile the content of user-developed drivers / API managers / Ctrl extensions with WinCC OA 3.11 Service Pack 1. For more information see Supported Compiler in WinCC OA 3.11 Service Pack 1

Setup Changes - Engineering Tool

The Engineering Tool was removed from WinCC OA 3.11 Service Pack 1 setup. Information about using the Engineering Tool is available from WinCC OA Support.

Setup Changes - Demo Project

The Demo Project was removed from the WinCC OA 3.11 Service Pack 1 setup. The project was formerly used as a blank project and is now obsolete with this version of WinCC OA.

Please note that the Demo Project is not the same as the  WinCC OA DemoApplication!

Qt Version

The supported Qt version was updated from version 4.7 to version 4.8.4.

API - Development

Only a Release configuration can be used for API development. The use of a Debug configuration is not supported and will lead to errors inside your project.

Changes to the WinCC OA Base Package

The WinCC OA Http server was added to the WinCC OA base package in WinCC OA 3.11 Service Pack 1. A manual selection is no longer required during the WinCC OA Setup.

Changed Resubscription Interval of the BACnet Driver

The default resubscription interval of the BACnet driver was changed from 1200 seconds (20 minutes) to 7200 seconds (2 hours).

Changed Config Section for OPC DA Server

With WinCC OA 3.11Service Pack 1, the existing section [PVSS_II] was renamed to [WINCC_OA].

Changes for the Saving of Intermediate Values of the Archive Compressions

When creating a new archive compression, the "Save intermediate values" option is deactivated by default and must be manually activated when required.

Alive Mechanism of the Web Client

The Web Client now uses an alive mechanism to keep the connection between the Event Manager and Data Manager active. To deactivate the alive mechanism, you must set the config entry aliveTimeout to 0.

Changes for the Synchronization of disaster recovery and redundant systems

The internal data points of the WinCC OA project are no longer synchronized because different states of the data points must be saved, e.g. for redundancy states, driver connections, etc.

Changes of the supported Oracle Versions

WinCC OA 3.11 Service Pack 1 contains the following changes to the supported Oracle versions:

For more requirements and restrictions see : RDB Archiving - Requirements for Installation

Oracle C++ Call Interface

The Oracle C++ Call Interface Library was removed from the WinCC OA Service Pack 1 setup. It must be manually installed when using RDB archiving. The necessary Libraries can be found here: Oracle C++ Call Interface. Please consider that the environmental variable for the Oracle libraries must be updated according to the location of the newly installed libraries.