# Start an application automatically on a PanelView Plus CE terminal using parameters

On a PanelView Plus CE terminal, you can set up FactoryTalk View Machine Edition Station to start and run an application automatically whenever the terminal starts by setting up the startup options or using parameters.

## To start an application automatically when a PanelView Plus CE terminal starts

1. Copy the path to the MERuntime.exe file (FactoryTalk View ME Station) to the Windows Startup folder.

   The default folders of the path to the MERuntime.exe file is \Storage Card\Windows\Desktop.

   The Windows Startup folder is \Storage Card\Windows\Startup.

2. In the Startup folder, right-click FactoryTalk View ME Station and select Properties.
3. On the Shortcut tab, in the Target box, after the existing text, type a space, the path to the .mer file, and one or more parameters.

   For example, to start FactoryTalk View Machine Edition Station and open an application file in a default folder, called Malthouse, type:

   "\Storage Card\Rockwell Software\RSViewME\Runtime\Malthouse.mer" /r /d /o

4. Click OK.

In the future, whenever the PanelView Plus CE terminal starts, FactoryTalk View Machine Edition Station will start automatically, delete the applications log files, overwrite the terminal's communications file, and run the application.

If you do not want to delete the log files, omit the /d parameter.

If you do not want to overwrite the communications file, omit the /o parameter.

To give the user the choice of overwriting the communications file, use the /a parameter instead of the /o parameter.

Tip: | If your application uses a shared network folder to store data log files, you will have to log onto a network when the application starts. To run the application automatically, you must store the network logon data in the terminal's permanent storage.

## See also

Start an application automatically by setting up the startup options

Log on to Network Server

Configure terminal communications

Parameters for starting an application

Stop a runtime application

Keywords: start, application