StinkyPasta
Member
Hey folks!
I've gotten an idea in my head and I'm wondering if anyone can help - and my title is terrible because I'm not good at articulating what I'm trying to do. We have an HMI at my site which is serving as our full facility's HMI (yes, we only have an ME license, lol). When we for instance want to see the nominal speed from a specific VFD on a specific PLC we use the syntax
{[CP123]VFD12345_Data.Nom_Spd}
You get what I mean. However, I want to take things to the next level with graphing. I was hoping to have a String Input button that allows the engineer to input their VFD unit number (so that 12345 from my example) and it sends to an internal HMI string tag I'm calling VFD_String. I want the graph to essentially change to display data from whatever the engineer inputs as their string. I was thinking it'd be something like this:
{[CP123]VFD"VFD_String"_Data.Nom_Spd}
I figured that'd be too easy to work and yep, it was too easy to work, lol. Is there any functionality to accomplish what I'm trying to do? Maybe in SE (so I can push for licenses for SE)?
Thanks!
I've gotten an idea in my head and I'm wondering if anyone can help - and my title is terrible because I'm not good at articulating what I'm trying to do. We have an HMI at my site which is serving as our full facility's HMI (yes, we only have an ME license, lol). When we for instance want to see the nominal speed from a specific VFD on a specific PLC we use the syntax
{[CP123]VFD12345_Data.Nom_Spd}
You get what I mean. However, I want to take things to the next level with graphing. I was hoping to have a String Input button that allows the engineer to input their VFD unit number (so that 12345 from my example) and it sends to an internal HMI string tag I'm calling VFD_String. I want the graph to essentially change to display data from whatever the engineer inputs as their string. I was thinking it'd be something like this:
{[CP123]VFD"VFD_String"_Data.Nom_Spd}
I figured that'd be too easy to work and yep, it was too easy to work, lol. Is there any functionality to accomplish what I'm trying to do? Maybe in SE (so I can push for licenses for SE)?
Thanks!