Lenze PLC Designer PLC Designer (R3-1) - Manual (Page 132)

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Concepts and Base Components
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See on this page general information on:
• Installation and Including in project
• Referenced Libraries
• Library Versions
• Unique access to library modules or variables
• Creating V3.x libraries, Encoding, Documentation
• »PLC Designer« V2.3 libraries
• Internal and external library modules
Installation and Including in project
• Libraries can be managed on the local system in one or various repositories (folders,
locations). A library cannot be included in a project before it has got installed in a
repository on the local system. The installation is to be done in the Library
Repository Dialog.
• As a precondition for installation, a library must have got assigned a title, a version
info and a company name in its Project Information. Optionally a category can be
defined which might serve later for sorting in the Library Manager.
• If no category assignment is defined in the Project Information, the library
automatically will belong to category "Miscellaneous". Further categories might be
defined in one or several xml-files *.libcat.xml which can be loaded in the Project
Information dialog in order to select one of the categories. Please see also below,
Creating V3.x libraries.
• The Library Manager is used to include libraries in a project. In a "standard project"
a Library Manager object by default is automatically assigned to the default device.
However a Library Manager object can also be added explicitly in the Devices or
POUs view window. This is to be done like for other objects with the Add Object
dialog. Libraries referenced in other libraries by default are also displayed in the
Library Manager, however also "hidden" libraries are possible, see below,
Referenced Libraries, "When creating...", 2..
• If the ".library*" file is available (and not only its compiled version "*.compiled-
library"), the POUs of the related library may be opened by a double click on their
referencing within the library manager.
• If a library module is called by an application, all libraries and repositories will be
searched in that order which is defined in the Library Repository dialog. See below
for unique accessing.