exileaustin
Member
Hi there everyone! Long time lurker, first time poster.
I am doing an SLC-5/03 to CompactLogix migration and am having an issue with a barcode reader and the old ASCII data type that lived inside the 503.
Original SLC program was lost and so I had to do a blind upload before my conversion, so no program/tag comments.
HMI is an old PV-1000 talking DH+. This will be replaced with a new PV7.
My main issue is that inside PanelBuilder32 software there are ASCII input tags with a Data Type of "Character Array".
Tag address is A31:0, Array size: 6.
This seems to allow the user to input "12345" on screen and have the data write to the PLC as follows: A31:0 "12", A31:1 "34", A31:2 "5\00".
Is there an easy way to do this with FTViewME? I am trying to not modify the original logic at all, as there are no comments and is a tough one to reverse engineer.
It appears that you can no longer select Character Array as a tag type inside FTView but I am wondering if there is a syntax I can use inside a String entry or similar.
Thanks!
I am doing an SLC-5/03 to CompactLogix migration and am having an issue with a barcode reader and the old ASCII data type that lived inside the 503.
Original SLC program was lost and so I had to do a blind upload before my conversion, so no program/tag comments.
HMI is an old PV-1000 talking DH+. This will be replaced with a new PV7.
My main issue is that inside PanelBuilder32 software there are ASCII input tags with a Data Type of "Character Array".
Tag address is A31:0, Array size: 6.
This seems to allow the user to input "12345" on screen and have the data write to the PLC as follows: A31:0 "12", A31:1 "34", A31:2 "5\00".
Is there an easy way to do this with FTViewME? I am trying to not modify the original logic at all, as there are no comments and is a tough one to reverse engineer.
It appears that you can no longer select Character Array as a tag type inside FTView but I am wondering if there is a syntax I can use inside a String entry or similar.
Thanks!