Nickname Length Increase

[RBPLC]

How difficult would it be to increase the nickname length to 32 characters? 

[BobO]

How difficult would it be to increase the nickname length to 32 characters?

Significantly. We would have already done so if it weren?t.

[MarkTTU]

Old topic I know, but if increasing the nickname length to 32 characters is a significant dev issue, what about the ability to show the extra info and description for memory that's being used in a pointer in the ladder?

If I have a rung with
---| C[V55] |---
it'd be super helpful to have more info about V55 than just the nickname displayed in the ladder view. I've got plenty of info in the "extra info" and "description" fields for the V55 nickname to make sense, but the nickname itself often can't make much sense because of the 16 character limit.

[franji1]

Old topic I know, but if increasing the nickname length to 32 characters is a significant dev issue, what about the ability to show the extra info and description for memory that's being used in a pointer in the ladder?

If I have a rung with
---| C[V55] |---
it'd be super helpful to have more info about V55 than just the nickname displayed in the ladder view. I've got plenty of info in the "extra info" and "description" fields for the V55 nickname to make sense, but the nickname itself often can't make much sense because of the 16 character limit.

You can currently document C[V55] fully (in lieu of V55).  However, you will lose the V55 Nickname display for C[V55] once you create a documentation record for C[V55].  You could copy V55's nickname into all the various BLOCK[V55] Extra Info field, e.g. same Extra Info text for  C[V55] R[V55] T[V55] etc.

We've done some work on the expanded documentation display format for Ladder View.  It won't be in the next release, but we plan on it being the next major release after this next one.

[MarkTTU]

You can currently document C[V55] fully (in lieu of V55).  However, you will lose the V55 Nickname display for C[V55] once you create a documentation record for C[V55].  You could copy V55's nickname into all the various BLOCK[V55] Extra Info field, e.g. same Extra Info text for  C[V55] R[V55] T[V55] etc.

We've done some work on the expanded documentation display format for Ladder View.  It won't be in the next release, but we plan on it being the next major release after this next one.

This would be SUPER helpful! Most of the time I have a single V that's only referencing Cs or Rs etc in a loop so it would be pretty unusual for me to need to have a C[V55] and a R[V55] at the same time.
I tried creating a new documentation record for c[v55], but I get an error updating element record. Do I have to delete the documentation from V55 before creating C[V55]?

[franji1]

Shows you what I know 

You CANNOT document an array reference.  So sorry.

Yes, you can document the array index, and its nickname will show up as the array index.  But only the Nickname (not Extra Info, not Description).

[MarkTTU]

Shows you what I know 

You CANNOT document an array reference.  So sorry.

Yes, you can document the array index, and its nickname will show up as the array index.  But only the Nickname (not Extra Info, not Description).

No worries. I'll continue what I currently do making lots of really good notes in the rung comments so I can keep straight what all my nicknamed array indexes are doing.