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4. Managing HART Devices using FDC Application Software
4.5. Overview of device configuration
Revision 12 MC Toolkit User Manual 41
May 2013
Validating a manually edited library
Besides using the Add/Delete DD features, advanced users may also manipulate a DD library by directly
editing the contents of the FDC\Library folder. DD files can also be transferred directly to this location
by accessing the SD Card on MCT101 through a card reader and/or by connecting the MCT101 or
MCT202 to a PC. In such cases, you must perform the following steps to validate a DD Library, thus
edited manually:
1. From the FDC homepage, tap Manage DDs > Select
The Manage DDs dialog box appears
2. Tap Options.
3. Tap Refresh Library.
Or
Tap
.
A confirmation message appears.
4. Tap Yes. The DD library is now validated and refreshed.
4.5 Overview of device configuration
Device configuration is the process of setting the variables of a device to desired values. Typically, the
configuration process is equated with the act of writing values to a device, but procedurally it involves
the following:
• Identifying a device
• Reading/observing device variable values
• Editing variables
• Sending edited variables to the device
• Saving the variable values
• Saving and downloading the device configuration.
When performing the above stated procedures and the device being available on an active
communication link, the process is generally termed as Online Configuration. On the other hand, you
may prepare a set of values for device variables even when the physical device is not present and then
you send these values down to the device once the same is available on the communication link. This
process is generally termed as Offline Configuration.