Set up communications

Gather information about the network the application will run on and the devices that are connected to it. You need this information to set up the data server that will provide the link to the physical devices on the network.

Decide which data server you will use for communications between the application and the devices on the network. You can use one of the following:

Make sure that the software for the data server you plan to use is installed, and then, using the documentation provided with it, set up the server so that communications between the devices and the

FactoryTalk View

application is enabled.

In

FactoryTalk View Studio

, add a data server that points to the data server you set up in step 3.

(optional) If you are going to use HMI tags in the application, open the

Tags

Editor

, and then create tags that have

Device

as the data source and in the

Address

box specify the OPC item that will provide values for the tag.

In objects on graphic displays, or anywhere else that tag values are needed, type the HMI tag name.

For direct references in devices, type the tag name or address using the syntax for the OPC server, or use the

Tag Browser

to navigate to and select HMI tags or OPC data server tags.