Do_More Update

[PLCGuy]

omg I just took what was in org1 and turned it into what you see in org2 using the copy command.

[willpoll]

IKR?

It's awesome!

I was doing the same thing, using multiple MATH instructions to assign values.  New 'COPY' function is way cleaner.  I bet it runs faster too.

P.S. On your ladder view are the comments on the instructions or on the elements themselves?  Is there a way to do instruction comments?

Thanks,

-Will

[franji1]

P.S. On your ladder view are the comments on the instructions or on the elements themselves?  Is there a way to do instruction comments?

Those are pieces of element documentation.  Nicknames are basically Tags (e.g. StartButton tied to X42).  Each element can also have Extra Info (16 characters) and a Description (6 lines by 16 characters).

Ladder Rungs can have Rung Comments.  These show up before a rung, useful for documenting your logic.  As you move the rung around, the Rung Comment stays tied to THAT rung.  There is no individual instruction level documentation, you would have to use the Rung Comments.  Rung Comments can be up to 16 lines by 60 characters wide, so it can hold a lot of text.

[PLCGuy]

What franj said. lol. Yea I use the Nickname, Extra Info and Description a lot. Along with rung comments.

[PLCGuy]

Would it be possible to have "results" in the copy box like other instructions do? Maybe too much to ask for or not enough room to display what has been copied. Or is that useless idea? I have been using Data View to see if it is working.

[franji1]

Would it be possible to have "results" in the copy box like other instructions do?

You mean "status".  That is possible (but not easy).

The multi column multi row boxes would probably get almost 4x bigger (twice as wide and twice as tall) as their compact non-status version.

If you right click on the COPY instruction ONLINE and select Monitor Values->from Instruction to Data View, you will get source and destination entries from every row in the COPY.  If the count for a row is greater than 3, you get the first two and the last one (use Ctrl+Enter in Data View if you really want to list all of them).

Even better, right click on the COPY instruction online and select Trend Instruction.  Trend View is cool!

[PLCGuy]

That is way cool, Thanks. I have to start right clicking more to see what options there are.