There has to be an easier way to do this.
For a lot of our "standard" equipment programs we alias all the digital and analog I/O. This works great until you want to do some testing and don't have all the I/O cards - which we rarely do.
So the current method is to...go to the Program Tags, find the tags with Aliases, click, click, click, delete, rinse, repeat, remove the modules in the I/O configuration, verify project and pray that you didn't miss any aliases since RS5000 will automatically change all the data types from BOOL to DINT for some reason, find the errors (for things like t/c modules where we look at the module status bits), fix, re-verify, re-fix. And just like that you're off and running. What a giant PITA.
With Micrologix there is a nice little "Ignore Configuration Error" box that you can check. Please tell me there is a easier way to do this than what I describe above.
For a lot of our "standard" equipment programs we alias all the digital and analog I/O. This works great until you want to do some testing and don't have all the I/O cards - which we rarely do.
So the current method is to...go to the Program Tags, find the tags with Aliases, click, click, click, delete, rinse, repeat, remove the modules in the I/O configuration, verify project and pray that you didn't miss any aliases since RS5000 will automatically change all the data types from BOOL to DINT for some reason, find the errors (for things like t/c modules where we look at the module status bits), fix, re-verify, re-fix. And just like that you're off and running. What a giant PITA.
With Micrologix there is a nice little "Ignore Configuration Error" box that you can check. Please tell me there is a easier way to do this than what I describe above.
