chakorules
Member
Anyone else notice this?
I have my program saved on the hard disk, and then I'll go offline to make some changes. Once I get my changes done, I forget to download the next time I connect to the PLC, but I hit the "Online" button once I've opened my "changed offline copy".
RsLogix 500 ver 5.20.00 did not detect that my offline version was different than my online version in my PLC and it let me go "online". Ofcourse my offline changes are not viewable "online"....but here is the KICKER.....once online, if you disconnect from the PLC or try to close RS Logix, RS Logix 500 asks you do you want to save and upload data tables. I did this, and ofcourse all my offline changes I just made previous to going online had been lost because the now online copy in the PLC will over write the offline copy on my hard drive. Lucky for me I had a backup copy.
I don't remember this happening in the past verions, in previous versions of RS Logix, I was always warned if the online copy did not match the offline copy.
Is this a feature I need to enable now in version 5.20.00 or is this a bug or what? I've been able to recreate this problem three times in a row as described above. Let me know your feeback.
Hardware specs:
SLC 5/03
Windows 2000 Pro SP1 (dell)
Rslogix 500 ver 5.20
RsLinx 2.30.02 build 79
I have my program saved on the hard disk, and then I'll go offline to make some changes. Once I get my changes done, I forget to download the next time I connect to the PLC, but I hit the "Online" button once I've opened my "changed offline copy".
RsLogix 500 ver 5.20.00 did not detect that my offline version was different than my online version in my PLC and it let me go "online". Ofcourse my offline changes are not viewable "online"....but here is the KICKER.....once online, if you disconnect from the PLC or try to close RS Logix, RS Logix 500 asks you do you want to save and upload data tables. I did this, and ofcourse all my offline changes I just made previous to going online had been lost because the now online copy in the PLC will over write the offline copy on my hard drive. Lucky for me I had a backup copy.
I don't remember this happening in the past verions, in previous versions of RS Logix, I was always warned if the online copy did not match the offline copy.
Is this a feature I need to enable now in version 5.20.00 or is this a bug or what? I've been able to recreate this problem three times in a row as described above. Let me know your feeback.
Hardware specs:
SLC 5/03
Windows 2000 Pro SP1 (dell)
Rslogix 500 ver 5.20
RsLinx 2.30.02 build 79