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General Category => Do-more CPUs and Do-more Designer Software => Topic started by: ksasikumar on May 31, 2022, 02:34:08 PM
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Is there a way to make/automate several documentation changes throughout a program? Here's a description of what I'm trying to achieve:
I have several PLCs which control a group of equipment each. The equipment and control logic is the same, just the element name is different - for example, Chillers 1-3 on PLC1 and Chillers 4-6 on PLC2. I am reusing the same program for each PLC and changing the documentation to reflect the equipment number changes. Basically copying the program to the second PLC and then going into the Documentation Editor and changing the equipment numbers. This may need to be done for several more PLCs down the line.
Is there a way I can do this more efficiently?
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Docs can be imported from spreadsheet, CSV at least if not XLS (don't remember). Your spreadsheet (Excel/Calc/PlanMaker, etc.) has more powerful editing tools like search and replace and drag-and-fill than does the Do-More Docs editor. I'd make the external spreadsheet copy of the docs the "official" copy, and only ever import to DMD. That's what I did on the SLC in similar situations, even 'automated' the station names by having them refer to a page where I just typed in the names once, then all the cells that used that name pointed to the sheet where I typed them in. Then export the sheet with all the docs as a CSV and Bam! -- like 6000 records in 10 minutes.
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This works perfectly! Thanks so much ;D