Factory Talk View and Tags

HoldenC

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I have to add some lines of logic to a ControlLogix system tomorrow, and I was a little confused by something, and was needing a little help.

I am adding a belt scale system to the logic, and going to use the MOV instruction to be able to have a more recognizable name. My question is this....Will i need to load the Tag into Factory Talk or will is automatically grab it from the logic ? I have very limited time to complete this task, and im trying to make sure I have everything under control first.
 
.. but you can also directly browse to the tag.

You have two options in FactoryTalk:
1) Create an HMI tag in FT View Studio, manually. Then use that tag in your object connection (ex. button, graph, ?)

OR
2) Browse directly to the PLC tag from the object connection. In that case, you do not need to create an HMI tag.
The PLC tag is "automatically" available to browse, but you have to manually assign that tag to some object connection.
 
Browsing to the PLC is the way to go in the new environments. You might have to refresh the folder when you browse.

Yeah, and even then it might not work. So you pick a random tag to get the syntax right and retype the tag name that you want.
 

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