Advanced
How do I open Advanced?
From the Data menu, choose
Add Item
to open the Add Item
dialog box. Click the Advanced
button.
TIP:
You cannot add a data item while HMI Emulation Mode is running.
Use
Advanced
to create an array of items to be added to a group.
IMPORTANT:
The array settings cannot be modified after they are created. To edit data items after you have added them in
Advanced
, edit each data item individually, or remove the data items from the group and then add them again in Advanced
.Setting | Description |
|---|---|
Datatype | Select the data type for the values to monitor. If unsure of the data type, select Native . |
Active | To display information about the data item (for example, changes to its status or value at the server), select the Active check box. To prevent information about the data item from being displayed in the FactoryTalk Live Data Test Client , clear the Active check box. |
ItemID | Type the address of the data items to load, using the syntax (topic.data1[%d]). Example: One-dimensional array To load 100 data items at the N7: address of a PLC-5 , type N7:%d. Specify the address range in the Min and Max boxes. To create a multi-dimensional array, add up to two more %d placeholders.Example: Three-dimensional array To load data from FactoryTalk Linx using a three-dimensional array of data items, type TOPIC%d%d.DATA%d . This might return data such as TOPIC1000.DATA0 , TOPIC1011.DATA1 . . . TOPIC20099.DATA80 . |
Array Dimension | The number of array dimensions are selected automatically, depending on how many %d placeholders added in ItemID . Loading data items in more than 3 dimensions is not supported. |
Min | Type the starting value for each dimension of the array. For example, in the three-dimensional array shown above, the starting values are 100, 0, and 0. |
Max | Type the ending value for each dimension of the array. For example, in the three-dimensional array shown above, the ending values are 200, 99, and 80. |
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