Plants navigation view

The Project tree navigation view contains one or more plants and their components on one automation station.
Working with the plant navigation view

Devices toolbar

Description

Collapse all

Collapse plants folder structure. When opening the Programming editor, the folder is collapsed.

Expand all

Expand the plants folder structure.

Add plant

Add a new plant in the Plants navigation view.
Add a new plant

 

Project tree

Description

State

Device state aggregation

State: Shows the states Program running or Not connected.

Device state aggregation: Aggregates all the states on device level of primary devices, can be used in control program logic.
Note: The device state aggregation is applicable only for primary devices of version 1.5 and above.

<Name of the plant>

Shows the plant and its components.

The icons indicate if a chart is mapped to BACnet and if a chart is locked.

Control program and Plant state aggregation

Plant state aggregation: Aggregates all the states on plant level of primary devices, can be used in control program logic.
Note: The plant state aggregation is applicable only for primary devices of version 1.5 and above.

Control program: Shows the control program with its used chart and subchart names.

Working with the Programming editor

BACnet

Shows all the BACnet objects.
The icons indicate if the type is an input, an output, or a value.
BACnet objects

Resources

TX & Onboard I/Os

Shows all TX and onboard I/Os added in the I/O configuration task.

The icons indicate if the I/Os are used (dark) or not used (white) in the chart.
I/O configuration

Modbus

Shows all Modbus I/Os added in the Modbus task.

The icons indicate if the I/Os are used in the chart.
Modbus

KNX PL-Link

Shows all KNX PL-Link objects.

The icons indicate if the type is a device chart, an input, an output, or a value.
KNX PL-Link

M-bus

Shows all M-bus objects.

The icons indicate if the type is a device chart, an input, an output, or a value.
M-bus

BACnet references

Shows all BACnet references.

The icons indicate if the type is an input, an output, or a value.
BACnet references

Coordination

Shows all group manager objects, scheduler objects, and calendar objects.
Coordination folder

Diagnostic

Watch table

Opens the Watch table for monitoring pin data.
Watch table

Trend view

Opens the Trend view to monitor pin data in run time.
Trend view

Plant

Drag a new plant or an existing plant from the Library.
Library