Direct tags import from Omron Sysman Studio (Omron Ethernet IP)¶
This driver supports the direct tags import from Omron Sysmac Studio export file.
Import from “.TXT” files
The requirement is a valid “*.TXT” file, that can be easily produced using the “Export” function of the Omron Sysmac Studio programming environment.
When configuring tags in Sysmac Studio pay attention to assign the proper “Network publish” property according to the needs.
The “Network publish” property of a tag can be assigned in between four different values:
Do not publish = the variable can not be reached from the HMI
Publish Only = the variable can be reached with read/write access
Input = the variable can be reached but in read only mode
Output = the variable can be reached but in write only mode
To export the tags from Sysmanc Studio, open the “Global variables” panel, select the variables you need to export and simply go to Toosa\Export Global Variables\CX-Designer as shown in the following figure.
This will copy to the clipboard the variables table.
Create now a new text file, open it, paste the clipboard content and save the file.
The format obtained from the exporting is the following: HOST NAME DATATYPE ADDRESS COMMENT TAGLINK RW POU
The file is TAB separated.
NAME is the tag name in the PLC memory
DATATYPE is the format of the data (Bool, INT, REAL, …)
ADDRESS is ignored
COMMENT is the comment assigned to the tag in the PLC program
TAGLINK must be TRUE
RW is used to establish if the tag is read only or read/write; in case it is R, the task is read only, if it is W the task is write only, if RW the task is input/output
POU is ignored