Develop a solution for importing objects

This design-time script creates objects in the

FactoryTalk Optix Studio

project based on the data from a

CSV

file.

TIP:

You can download a sample project from:

Prerequisites

Create a project.

In the following example, the

CSV

file contains information about alarms and model variables used by these alarms.

variable,var1,boolean
variable,var2,uint32
alarm,alarm1,digital,var
alarm,alarm2,analog,var2

CSV
columns description
#1 column	#2 column	#3 column	#4 column
Indicates whether you need to create a project variable (keyword variable ) or an alarm (keyword alarm ).	Indicates the name of the node to be created.	Indicates the datatype to use to create the variable: Digital (keyword digital ) Limit (keyword analog )	Indicates the variable to point the alarm to.