Locking program while keeping operator's variable accessible

Sebastien 2016-10-12

Hi pros,
I am working on a program that requires some input from an operator on a UR5 robot. Basically in the before start part of the program I have some variable that are 'operator' variables. These have an automatic popup when I run the program. Then I am using these values, entered by the operator, to adjust some positions later on in the program. So at the end I want the operator to be able to enter the numbers but not to alter the programs. How can I do this?

matthewd92 2016-10-12

If the program is in run mode, the pop-ups still occur but the operators have no access to the program. We use this in production currently.

Sebastien 2016-10-14

@matthewd92
Sounds good thanks. Any easy way to have limits on the values the operator is entering? The only method that I am thinking of is having an if loop in the program that pops a message when value is outside limit and brings you back to operator variable popup.

matthewd92 2016-10-14

@Sebastien that is what we do now. It would be nice if UR would add some additional functionality to this feature

Sebastien 2016-10-14

@matthewd92
I agree. @Stefan_Stubgaard it would be a nice feature to add (See post above!)

Stefan_Stubgaard 2016-10-17

@Sebastien @matthewd92 Thank you for the feedback. I agree that proposal can add value in some cases, it would only work when entering numerical values though.

Sebastien 2016-10-18

@Stefan_Stubgaard
That would make sense for us! Keep us posted if anything for this is released!