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For ctrlX the WebIQ version 2.11 will hopefully be available soon, but what you can do, you can install WebIQ 2.11 from the homepage of WebIQ. Get a 30 day trial license from WebIQ homepage Connect to the WebIQ server running on that engineering PC (you can't connect to ctrlX with version 2.10) ... View more

There are some forum entry, telling that you have to provide ip and port. You are correct. There must be a better way to tell this issue to the user. https://developer.community.boschrexroth.com/t5/Smart-HMI-WebIQ-Designer-and/HMI-Localhost-and-Port-Settings/m-p/46029 We are currently looking to the problem that some people says that the license is not detected. Can you please reboot the ctrlX and tell if the license is than recognized. For your info: When you use localhost (127.0.0.1 or the IP of your PC) than you connect to the WebIQ server running on your engineering PC. With WebIQ version 1.10 there is a demo license you can use. When you use the IP of the ctrlX, you connect to the WebIQ server running on the ctrlX. When you want to transfere a project from one server to a second one, you have to download it from the first and upload it to the second WebIQ server. ... View more

Yes, it's true the 80 char's are a limitation by the CoDeSys function which is used. The is a active request to CoDeSys to enlarge the string length. Right now, you can't retrieve longer path names than 80 char's. But you can set longer path names by splitting the path in pices of max. 80 char's. Example you want to acces file: /myPathWith80Chars/subdir1/subDir2/myFileName.txt There are 2 ways to do it: 1) Use SysDirSetCurrent 2x. - Set absolute path (with "/" at start of string) to: "/myPathWith80Chars/" - Set relative path (without "/" at start of string) to: subdir1/subDir2 - Read or write file with file name "myFileName.txt" 2) Use SysDirSetCurrent 1x and relative file name - Set absolute path (with "/" at start of string) to: "/myPathWith80Chars/" - Read or write file with relative path and file name (without "/" at start of string) "subdir1/subDir2/myFileName.txt" ... View more