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Chapter
PCS Connection Editor
This chapter provides a description of the PCS Connection Editor. It includes the following
information:
■ General Information...................................................................................................5-2
■ Accessing the Connection List....................................................................................5-2
■ Elements of the Connection List.................................................................................5-3
■ Using Function Keys in the Connection List...............................................................5-3
❏ Overview ......................................................................................................5-3
❏ Editing/Inserting Connections.......................................................................5-4
❏ Defining/Changing an ID .............................................................................5-4
❏ Defining/Changing a Connection..................................................................5-4
❏ Deleting Connections....................................................................................5-5
❏ Editing Protocol Parameters of a Connection ................................................5-5
■ Editing the Variable Assignment Table (VAT) ..........................................................5-6
❏ Elements of the VAT ....................................................................................5-6
❏ Function Keys of the VAT ............................................................................5-7
❏ Editing/Inserting Variable Assignments........................................................5-8
❏ Entering/Changing the Tagname ..................................................................5-8
❏ Entering/Changing the PLC Addresses.........................................................5-8
❏ Entering/Changing PLC Variable Types.......................................................5-9
❏ Deleting Variable Assignments...................................................................5-10
❏ Marking Unused Variables..........................................................................5-10
■ Global Data Format..................................................................................................5-11
■ Data Type Conversions.............................................................................................5-12
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