Addressing

Property

Description

Name

Any name may be chosen. ATTENTION: the name must be unique within every control system project.

Identification

The identification field is used for addressing. (Example: 1.2.0)

Net address

Bus address or net address of the variable.

This address refers to the bus address in the connection configuration of the driver. This defines the station, on which the variable resides.

Data block

not used for this driver

Offset

not used for this driver

Alignment

not used for this driver

Bit number

not used for this driver

String length

Only available for String variables: Maximum number of characters that the variable can take.

Driver object type

Depending on the employed driver, an object type is selected during the creation of the variable; the type can be changed here later.

Data type

Data type of the variable, which is selected during the creation of the variable; the type can be changed here later.

ATTENTION: If you change the data type later, all other properties of the variable must be checked and adjusted, if necessary.