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#CITECT CODE#
Yes it is a compiled code product.and as at V6.1 you still cannot compile (or even so much as test run a screen) concurrently with the Runtime.ħ. The same applies to trend and alarm files.Ħ. The tag database is just one long flat dbf file with no possibility to create structures. Really this is aspect of Citect lags products like RSView32 by a generation, and RSViewSE's "Direct Tagging" by several. On a good day it can take me 10 minutes just to add one more tag to our system. BUT if you edit the tag variable.dbf directly using Excel (as you will absolutely want to do if you have more than a few dozen tags you will corrupt the OID mapping, and have to set OID Reset = 1 in the citect.ini file, close the whole product, restart, repack all included projects and hope that it all compiles.
#CITECT DRIVERS#
All "tag based" drivers eg ABCLX and OPC (ie a driver where the PLC addresses are string names) require an intermediate mapping variable called an "OID" (Object ID) that is automatically generated by the tag database tool. (I insist on using RSLinx as the OPC server if only to get some useful diagnostics.)ĥ. Unhappily Citect have made using industry standard OPC connectivity a complete PITA with a very lame implementation.
#CITECT FREE#
Sure you get access to a zillion free drivers, but the ones I have used so far lack visibility and diagnostics compared to something like RSLinx or Archestra.
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Yes you can use Cicode everywhere, but I also get rather tired of having to use Cicode everywhere to do things other packages do with far less fuss.Ĥ. Even after months of using the product(s) I still have concentrate on simple menu navigation tasks.ģ. I do rather get fed up having to Alt-Tab between them all the time. Citect is not one application it is five: the Citect Explorer, Citect Project Editor, Graphics Editor, Cicode Editor and the Citect Runtime. This creates some major limitations for the developers that even the upcoming V7.0 still hasn't been able to fix.Ģ. The product is almost 20 years old and is still 16 bit code. I've had to use Citect solidly for over a 18 months now. I am in the process of learning this who SCADA system and how things work the problem is the owner of the company thinks things like this can be done overnight so I am requesting as much help and assistance as can be give and I will return the favors. Upon doing so that data the supervisor just selected will populate that entry box. What the supervisor would do is click on a entry box, upon doing so it would open the appropriate file, then the supervisor will select the appropriate entry and click on that. I would like to try to design, unless someone already has it designed, a screen where I can load these files when the supervisor goes to the assignements screen.
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CSV files, one is a list of employees and the other is a list of tasks. So on the display page when you program it you would say something like operator_var(x) or something like this, and from the page you are comming from you will set the variable X to 1 so when this display is brought up it will bring up the value in operator_1. If this variable is set to a 1 when you goto a certain page which display the parameters the parameters from machine 1 will be displayed. What I would like to do is have some sort of variable that is set from a certain page. So all my tags for machine 1 end in _1, all my tags for machine 26 end in _26. In my tag lay out I have the tag names all the same except for the suffix. What is the best way, when using a button, to have the system check the value of IODeviceInfo("IODev",10) if the value of this tag is a 1 then goto page 1 if the value is something other than 1 do nothing?ģ. My question here is can you also use the CICODE language here?Ģ. Under a heading for input you can choose to either use a tag or function. If you place a button or indicator on the screen. So if you know I would be really thankful if you would post the information.ġ.
#CITECT SOFTWARE#
I am currently reviewing the software CITECT 6.1 There are a few questions I have and I thought whom better than people who may already be using it.