It is not entirely clear to me.
You have a real 1212C are monitoring that, or you have the program set up for that plc and run it in a simulator?
In the last case, for problem 1, aren't those inputs activated in the simulator? I don't know how TIA works, but in S7PLCSIM you can tick boxes to simulate inputs on/off
The second problem, we might need to see how you programmed that. on the other hand, are you sure the program is actually running?
regards, wimpie