Lenze PLC Designer PLC Designer (R3-1) - Manual (Page 864)

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Device Editors
862 DMS 4.1 EN 03/2011 TD29
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Channels:
The following entries will be displayed if provided by the device:
Channel: Symbolic name of the input resp. output channel of the device
Address: Address of the channel, for example "%IW0".
You can modify and fix the currently displayed address of an output or input here in
the dialog. This might be useful in order to adapt the addressing to a given hardware
configuration resp. to keep the address value even if the order of the modules gets
changed (which per default would cause an automatic adaptation of the address
values).
Regard that you can only modify the address of the entire input or output, not
however that of its subelements, i.e. bit channels. So, if an input or output is
represented here in the mapping table with any subtree, only the address field of the
uppermost entry can be edited (see the figure below: only the address field in the first
line can be opened).
In order to fix the address value, select the entry in the "Address" column and press the
<space> bar to open the edit field. Now either modify the value or leave it unmodified
and close the edit field via the <Return> key. The address field will get marked by a
symbol, which indicates that the current value is fixed. If the value has been
modified, the subsequent addresses (up to the next fixed address) will be adapted
correspondingly. See the following example for the modification and fixation of an
address value:
Abb. 475 Example, Address modified manually
If you want to remove the fixation of the value, reopen the address edit field, delete
the address entry and close with <Enter>. The address and the concerned succeeding
addresses will be set back to the values they had before the manual modification, and
the M symbol will be removed.
Type: Data type of the input resp. output channel, for example "BOOL". If the data type
is not standard, but a structure or bit field defined in the device description, it will be
listed only if it is part of the IEC standard and indicated as IEC type in the device
description. Otherwise the entry of the table will be empty.
Unit: Unit of the parameter value, for example "ms" for Milliseconds
Description: Short description of the parameter.
Current Value: Current value of the parameter, displayed in online mode.