Studio 5000: Parse Routines (or All Tags) for a certain AOI data type

[AREDA]

Hi All,

It's a long shot, but is there a way that a routine or AOI is written to scan all routines (routine names can be fed as inputs? if required), and if it finds a specific AOI (e.g. P_ALMD or P_Alarm) and with every instance it finds, it then can map a few parameters into an array it builds?

Thanks

AREDA

 

[Aardwizz]

No.

Strings are strings, not Variants for routine names or tag names that could be passed to even a GSV. This is PLC code, not VBA.

You might be able to pull this off with Excel macros, an exported L5K file, and OPC links to the PLC. But not something native to the PLC.

 

[widelto]

This is a job for Pylogix, Dustin (Dmroeder) can help you. OpenpyXl will gather data into Excel.

 

[JaxGTO]

You can just select the AOI in the project tree and do a cross reference. But if you want the PLC code to do the same that's a whole different thing.

 

[JeremyM]

Hi All,

It's a long shot, but is there a way that a routine or AOI is written to scan all routines (routine names can be fed as inputs? if required), and if it finds a specific AOI (e.g. P_ALMD or P_Alarm) and with every instance it finds, it then can map a few parameters into an array it builds?

Thanks

AREDA

What is it you're trying to do?