Addressing

Property

Description

Name

Freely definable name.

ATTENTION: the name must be unique within each control system project.

Identification

Any text can be entered here, e.g. for resource labels, comments ...

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 PLC, on which the variable resides.

Data block

For variables of object type Extended data block, enter the datablock number here.

Configurable [0.. 4294967295] . Please look up the exact maximum range for data blocks in the manual of the PLC.

Offset

Offset of the variable; the memory address of the variable in the PLC. Configurable [0.. 4294967295].

Alignment

not used for this driver

Bit number

Number of the bit within the configured offset.

Valid input [0.. 65535].

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.