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Created Date: July 07,2010
Created By: jeremysji
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I 've got an existing C-More program that talks to my DL06 via serial (AD K-Sequence). What I need to do is change everything in the program so that it communicates with the 06 via ethernet. I 've added a device in the panel manager screen with a different name, exported my tag name database, did a find-replace and replaced all the old references to the old plc with the name of the new plc. At the import, I 've checked 'overwrite existing tags ' and left device as 'default ' so that it imports to the new device name that I specified when I did the find-replace. I click 'import ' and it goes through the 331 tags and the says 'import complete. ' But nothing changed. All my tags are still pointing to the original PLC. I 've even tried setting the import so that all tags get associated with the new PLC name, but I get the same results. Am I doing something wrong or missing something? -Jeremy
Created Date: July 08,2010
Created by: ebalarde
I have done the kind of changes to my tag databases like you are trying to do multiple times and it always work, so I know it can be done.
The first thing I would want to double check is how you go about exporting, editing and then importing your tag database. Is it possible that you are not saving your edits in the export file so that when you are trying to import the "changes " it is actually importing the very same "unedited " file that you exported?
Are you exporting as .csv or .xls and what program are you using to edit the plc name?
-Etienne
Created Date: July 08,2010
Created by: jeremysji
I 've tried exporting as both CSV and XLS.
For CSV, I used notepad and just did a find-replace. For XLS, I used MS Office Mac 2008. Both offered the same results just now.
For what it's worth, I'm changing the name from 'PLC ' to 'AIRCTRL8 ', using C-More version 2.60 on win XP sp3.
-Jeremy
Created Date: July 08,2010
Created by: Rich19551
C-More ver 2.6 had Some Problems with it so they took it off and came out with 2.62
http://forum.automationdirect.com/showthread.php?t=7196
Created Date: July 08,2010
Created by: OpZed
You shouldn't have to export-import at all. Just go to Panel Manager, select your current driver under the com port, then change "PLC Protocol " from K-seq to ECOM Ethernet, enter the IP address, you 're done!
Created Date: July 08,2010
Created by: jeremysji
You shouldn't have to export-import at all. Just go to Panel Manager, select your current driver under the com port, then change "PLC Protocol " from K-seq to ECOM Ethernet, enter the IP address, you 're done!
Well, looks like I was just making it too complicated. Thanks, OpZed, that worked like a charm!
Rich, version 2.62 is for the C-More Micro. 2.60 is still the current version for the C-More.
So, I take it that the import function isn't supposed to work like that since it's so easy to just change the protocol?
-Jeremy
Created Date: July 07,2010
Created by: jeremysji
I 've got an existing C-More program that talks to my DL06 via serial (AD K-Sequence). What I need to do is change everything in the program so that it communicates with the 06 via ethernet.
I 've added a device in the panel manager screen with a different name, exported my tag name database, did a find-replace and replaced all the old references to the old plc with the name of the new plc.
At the import, I 've checked 'overwrite existing tags ' and left device as 'default ' so that it imports to the new device name that I specified when I did the find-replace. I click 'import ' and it goes through the 331 tags and the says 'import complete. '
But nothing changed. All my tags are still pointing to the original PLC. I 've even tried setting the import so that all tags get associated with the new PLC name, but I get the same results. Am I doing something wrong or missing something?
-Jeremy