I was told this by an AB development engineer during a conference, but I have never tried this so far.

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The original developer is not known or not in business anymore.

I understand that there is a work around but cannot find anything about it.

Can someone confirm that there is a workaround I dont think it would be a good thing to spell out in a public forum.

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Only in the latest releases (I believe from FT V6.00 and higher) the.MER can be edited and modified.

I have some customers like yours, and the other alternative proposed is to reverse engineer the application, at a substantial cost, as theres a lot of work involved.

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The white bezeld Panelview plus that only goes to v5.1 is not edit-able without the original project on somebodys pc or having the.apa file.

There was a sorta workaround if you could get the compactflash card out of the panelview plus(by taking the logic module off of the display) and copyimport the.gfx and other files in the folder structure to another project that you had already started in Rsview Studio.

I think you still have to create a lot of the data like the tag database, but you at least have the layout of the hmi.

I actually am going to have to try this out on a panelview here as there was some confusion over what we needed for a backup, so we didnt get an apa file from the programmer for the current version of the project.

We do have an older apa file, so Im hoping to merge the projects.

The older.MER files were not modifiable, and youd have to have the.APA backup files in order to make changes to the terminal.

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Their software at the time had to have the.apa to get a project started on your development pc.

After that version, its up to the developer to check that box to protect the runtime version when they created the.mer.

Unfortunately, that box was checked by default for a couple of versions.

So check the firmware version to get an idea of your potential success rate.

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