System features

User-defined Project Templates provide user-defined default content to be contained in new projects.

There is improved visualization and handling of variables with structured data types imported from a PLC or an OPC UA server.

In addition to the built-in keyboard, users can now create a custom keyboard using the new custom virtual keyboard editor or by importing ready-to-use templates from the library.

The ScrollView container has new properties that allow operators to scroll in steps or scroll to a specific element.

There are Screen and Rectangle control styles for fill, border color and thickness, and corner radius properties added to Stylesheets.

The key-value converter map is now automatically preconfigured with the correct data types based on property and source information for improved usability.

Alarm Summary and Alarm Manager widgets support alarm sorting by Status and Inhibit State.

It is now possible to keep design-time passwords safe by storing project secrets locally and protected by a user-provided password.

Command-line interface (CLI) is now available to perform FactoryTalk Optix application deploy and export actions without opening FactoryTalk Optix Studio.

A new C# API is available to add Library objects to the project via Netlogic.

A FactoryTalk Optix application can now be exported in a zip format that allows ThinManager to deploy it in a container to a thin-client device.

MQTT broker now supports username and password authentication, enhancing security and access control.

MQTT publisher now supports customizable payloads using string formatting, allowing users to define structured JSON or plain text messages before publishing, simplifying integration with applications and systems.

MQTT subscriber now supports plain text subscriptions, allowing users to subscribe to human-readable, lightweight messages instead of structured JSON. This is ideal for logging, alerts, mobile apps, and lightweight applications.

Store & Forward now supports buffer overwrite for continuous data logging, replacing the oldest data with new incoming data when the buffer is full.

There is added support for InfluxDB 3.0, enabling integration with the latest version of the time-series database. This enhances historical and real-time data storage, analytics, and scalability.

Users can now import and visualize Smart Objects information models from Logix controllers using the Optix Smart Objects script. Smart Objects help define contextualized data structures and synchronized data collection, ensuring consistency across data sets.

There is support for stored procedures via Netlogic when an ODBC Datadstore is configured.

When an Optix Application uses the CODESYS communication driver the CODESYS Gateway is automatically installed during deployment on OptixPanel, OptixEdge, and the Embedded Edge Compute module.