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Plant SCADA 2023 Release Notes

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  • Last UpdatedFeb 09, 2026
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The colors, buttons and other elements used for the Plant SCADA Studio interface have been changed to provide more efficient workflows and a common look-and-feel across AVEVA’s products.

Note:
The following features are no longer supported with this release of Plant SCADA.
• Schneider Electric's Floating License Manager is no longer supported by Plant SCADA. Existing users of the Floating License Manager will need to reconfigure their system to use AVEVA Enterprise Licensing.
• Plant SCADA's legacy Active X Web Client is no longer supported.

New features and enhancements

  • AVEVA™ Enterprise Licensing

    In Plant SCADA 2023, AVEVA Enterprise Licensing is now fully integrated for use with Plant SCADA. AVEVA Enterprise Licensing is a common platform solution that allows you to manage AVEVA Enterprise Software product licenses.

    The system is comprised of a browser-based License Manager and a License Server that allow you to share and deliver licenses to installed AVEVA applications. This distributed architecture enables centralized management of activated licenses and flexible topologies that support systems of any size.

    Note: With this release, Schneider Electric's Floating License Manager is no longer supported by Plant SCADA. Existing users of the Floating License Manager will need to reconfigure their system to use AVEVA Enterprise Licensing.

    See AVEVA™ Enterprise Licensing.

  • Configuration Parameters Database for Equipment Types

    In Plant SCADA 2023, "configuration parameters" replace "custom parameters" for Equipment Types.

    Configuration Parameters provide the same functionality as custom parameters. They can be used to represent specific information about a physical piece of equipment, such as a set point or delay setting. However, they are stored in a dedicated configuration parameters database. This means you will no longer be restricted by a 256 character limitation, providing greater flexibility if you need to add multiple parameters.

    Only Equipment Types created in Plant SCADA 2023 (or later) will make use of the new database. You can identify one of these new Equipment Types via the following version "2.0" label in the source XML:

    <template version="2.0" desc="Equipment template">

    Note: This change requires any existing equipment types to be migrated to a new format. If Plant SCADA detects any version 1.0 equipment types, a dialog will appear asking if you want to migrate them. If this occurs, see Migrate Custom Parameters to the Configuration Parameters Database.

  • Add Web Content to a Graphics Page

    Plant SCADA now allows you to natively incorporate modern web-based content in your runtime system. This is achieved by adding a Web Content object to a page in Graphics Builder (see Add a Web Content Object).

    Each instance of a Web Content object has a URL property that allows you to specify the content that is displayed when the host graphics page is launched.

    Note: If one of your projects uses the Microsoft Web Browser ActiveX object on a graphics page, it is recommended that you replace it with the new Web Content object.

    See Web Content.

  • Tag Writes Enabled for Industrial Graphics Applications

    You can now write to Plant SCADA tags and equipment.items directly from Industrial Graphics applications.

    Note:
    AVEVA Industrial Graphics is now deprecated within Plant SCADA and future releases. It will no longer be supported or maintained in Plant SCADA 2023, Plant SCADA 2023 R2, future versions, monthly updates or security updates.
    • AVEVA recommends customers cease using AVEVA Industrial Graphics within Plant SCADA runtime systems and decommission any Plant SCADA Industrial Graphics web servers from production and engineering systems.
    • The parameter [General]EnableIndustrialGraphics has been provided in Plant SCADA 2023 Update 29 (delivered in October 2025), to allow you to disable Industrial Graphics functionality within Plant SCADA configuration tools. It is recommended that you manually set this parameter to disabled (0) in your Citect.ini file on any Plant SCADA computers within your production and engineering systems.
    See the Knowledge Base article 000103614 Security advice regarding AVEVA Industrial Graphics and Plant SCADA on the AVEVA Knowledge & Support Center for more information.

  • Tag Writes Enabled for OPC UA Client Applications

    You can now write to Plant SCADA tags directly from an OPC UA client application connected to a Plant SCADA OPC UA Server.

    To do this, you need to set the Write Roles property for each variable tag that will have writes enabled. The Property Grid allows you to select one of the roles configured in your Plant SCADA project, or you can manually enter a comma-separated list to include multiple roles. See Add a Variable Tag.

    To write to a variable tag, the user that is currently logged in to the OPC UA client application needs to be part of a Windows™ domain group that is associated with the role specified in the Write Roles property.

    Note: Tag writes will only work if encryption is enabled for the OPC UA Server.

    For more information, see Confirm the Settings for an OPC UA Server.

  • Alarm Filtering Performance Improvements

    The performance of filtering operations on the Sequence of Events and Alarm Summary pages have been improved.

    Queries that return a small number of alarm records from a large alarm database will see the greatest performance improvement. For example, when you filter alarms that have occurred on a single piece of equipment.

    In addition, a new parameter has been added that allows you to switch off alarm filter optimization. For a description of the circumstances where this may be beneficial, see [Alarm]DisableFilterOptimization.

  • Unique IDs for Variables

    A unique ID is applied to each of the variable tags in a Plant SCADA project to provide consistent identification for integration with future software releases. The unique IDs are Globally Unique Identifiers that are generated by Plant SCADA whenever tags are added to a project.

    The Migration Tool has a new option to automatically add IDs to any existing project.

    For more information, see Unique IDs for Variable Tags and Equipment.

  • Unique IDs for Projects

    With the release of Plant SCADA 2023, unique IDs are now applied to each Plant SCADA project. This provides consistent identification across the lifetime of a project.

    Each unique ID is a Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) generated by Plant SCADA using the following format:

    XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX

    If you copy or restore a project, you will need to consider how its Unique ID will be impacted.

    See Edit a Project's Properties.

  • Debug Cicode without Compiling.

    To start a debugging session without the project being recompiled, you can use Start Debugging Without Compile to quickly start debugging your Cicode.

    The Start Debugging Without Compile option can be selected from Cicode Editor's Debug menu.

    Note: You can only use this option if you have already compiled a project at least once.

    UNINTENDED EQUIPMENT OPERATION

    Do not use the following command to start Plant SCADA if you have uncompiled project changes that are necessary for the safe operation of your plant and process.

    • Start Debugging Without Compile

    This option is only intended to assist debugging an already compiled project.

    Failure to follow these instructions can result in death, serious injury, or equipment damage.

    See Debugging Cicode.

Citect.ini parameter updates

The following Citect.ini parameters have been introduced or modified in this release.

New Parameters

The following parameters are new in this release. For an entire list of the system parameters, refer to the Parameters documentation.

Removed Parameters

The following parameters have been removed from this release.

  • Address Forwarding Parameters

    [AddressForwarding]LicenseStore

    Floating License Manager is no longer supported by Plant SCADA.

  • CtEdit Parameters

    [CtEdit]WebDeploy

    The Plant SCADA IIS Web Client is no longer supported.

  • DNS Parameters

    [DNS]Primary

    The Plant SCADA Internet Display Client is no longer supported.

    [DNS]Standby

    The Plant SCADA Internet Display Client is no longer supported.

  • Internet Parameters

    [Internet]Client

    The Plant SCADA Internet Display Client is no longer supported.

    [Internet]Display

    The Plant SCADA Internet Display Client is no longer supported.

    [Internet]FTPTimeout

    The Plant SCADA Internet Display Client is no longer supported.

    [Internet]FTPWatchTime

    The Plant SCADA Internet Display Client is no longer supported.

    [Internet]IPAddress

    The Plant SCADA Internet Display Client is no longer supported.

    [Internet]LogFile

    The Plant SCADA Internet Display Client is no longer supported.

    [Internet]Manager

    The Plant SCADA Internet Display Client is no longer supported.

    [Internet]Password

    The Plant SCADA Internet Display Client is no longer supported.

    [Internet]Port

    The Plant SCADA Internet Display Client is no longer supported.

    [Internet]Redundancy

    The Plant SCADA Internet Display Client is no longer supported.

    [Internet]RunFTP

    The Plant SCADA Internet Display Client is no longer supported.

    [Internet]SearchCurrentPath

    The Plant SCADA Internet Display Client is no longer supported.

    [Internet]Server

    The Plant SCADA Internet Display Client is no longer supported.

    [Internet]ShowFileFTPDlg

    The Plant SCADA Internet Display Client is no longer supported.

    [Internet]ShowSetupDlg

    The Plant SCADA Internet Display Client is no longer supported.

    [Internet]UpdateTime

    The Plant SCADA Internet Display Client is no longer supported.

    [Internet]ZipFiles

    The Plant SCADA Internet Display Client is no longer supported.

  • Web Server Parameters

    [WebServer]DeployRoot

    The Plant SCADA IIS Web Client is no longer supported.

    [WebServer]WebClientCab

    The Plant SCADA IIS Web Client is no longer supported.

Cicode function updates

The following Cicode functions have been introduced or modified in this release.

New Functions

  • Color Functions

    MakeColour

    Creates a color from red, green and blue component parts. For backwards compatibility, you can refer to this function using the alias "MakeCitectColour".

  • Display Functions

    DspRubSetColor

    Sets the color of the rubber band tool that is used to select a section within a trend object.

    DspWebContentGetURL

    Gets the current URL for a Web Content control on a graphics page.

    DspWebContentSetURL

    Sets the URL for a Web Content control on a graphics page.

  • Security Functions

    UserCreateByRole

    Creates a record for a new Plant SCADA user. The user can be assigned to a specified role. Not available when logged in as Windows user.

Deprecated Functions

  • Security Functions

    UserCreate

    Creates a record for a new Plant SCADA user. This function is now deprecated and will be removed in the next release. Use the function instead.

Removed Functions

  • FTP Functions

    FTPClose

    The Plant SCADA Internet Display Client is no longer supported.

    FTPFileCopy

    The Plant SCADA Internet Display Client is no longer supported.

    FTPFileFind

    The Plant SCADA Internet Display Client is no longer supported.

    FTPFileFindClose

    The Plant SCADA Internet Display Client is no longer supported.

    FTPOpen

    The Plant SCADA Internet Display Client is no longer supported.

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