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EIOC Bulk creation

Hi all

I need to create more or less 300 PDTs for some EIOCs based in only 2 "templates", so the signals definition is the same. I know that EIOCs is not suitable for bulkexport but even the "paste" option is barred when I try to repeat a PDT, LDT or even a SIGNAL.... Is there a way to avoid manually create/configure all?

Thanks!

Caio

• 28 Feb 2024 7:09 PM
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• KeithStThomas

  

  • 28 Feb 2024 9:03 PM

  I don't understand the comment about EIOC not being suitable for Bulk Export. There is a format file, EIOC_Logical_Device_Modbus.fmt or EIOC_EIP_Signal.fmt that would work for your needs. You enter the Logical Device specs and the system auto generates the signals.

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• Andre Dicaire

  

  • 28 Feb 2024 11:17 PM

  In reply to KeithStThomas:

  To be clear, the Signals shown in the image are not the same as the signal tag which must be unique in the system. Each Signal has a signal identifier as shown above. You can edit these but they are autogenerated as shown. These form what could be called a Hardware reference (ie. PDT1/LDT1/SIGNAL001). The Signal Tag, sometimes referred to as DST (Device Signal Tag) that gets confused with license. The Signal Tag is a unique name in the DeltaV name space and cannot be duplicated, even with Module names.
  
  Every IO channel has a Signal Tag, and these are easily tagged as there is one tag per channel (FIT-101). On an EIOC with 256 identical devices, each with say 10 signals, you still need 2560 distinct unique tags.
  
  So you can rename and set up the Signal identifier to be say "START", "STOP", "STATUS", "FAULT", etc in eahc LDT, but the Signal Tag has to be different, like P-1001_STRT, P-1001_STP, P-1001_STS and P-1001_FLT. If the suffix portion is 4 ot 5 characters, the device portion cannot exceed 11 characters as the total signal Tag length is 16 characters.
  
  You can bulk edit this in, and let the Excel sheet automate your tagging convention. it's really the only way to deal with 2560 unique tags, or more depending on your configuration and number of devices.

  Andre Dicaire

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• Caio

  

  • 29 Feb 2024 3:23 AM

  In reply to KeithStThomas:

  You are right, i found the fmts you mentioned and they work fine. Thank you for your prompt answer! ( I should have tried a little more before asking...)

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• KeithStThomas

  

  • 29 Feb 2024 2:58 PM

  In reply to Caio:

  Great! Happy to help.

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