User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- E-Designer Reference Manual
- 1 Installation
- 2 General
- 3 Configuration with the Configuration Tool
- 3.1 Starting the Configuration Tool
- 3.2 Selecting Menu Language
- 3.3 Creating a Project
- 3.4 Saving a Project
- 3.5 Updating Drivers
- 3.6 Changing Project Properties
- 3.7 The Project Manager
- 3.8 The Block Manager
- 3.9 Showing Operator Panel around the Working Area
- 3.10 Configuration of Blocks
- 3.11 Using Text Blocks
- 3.12 Static Symbols
- 3.13 Changing I/Os
- 3.14 The I/O Browser
- 3.15 Changing BDTP Station
- 3.16 I/O Cross Reference
- 3.17 Other Managers/Editors
- 3.18 The File Menu
- 3.19 The Edit Menu
- 3.20 The View Menu
- 3.21 The Functions Menu
- 3.22 The Setup Menu
- 3.23 The Block Manager menu
- 3.24 The Object menu
- 3.25 The Layout Menu
- 3.26 The Project Menu
- 3.27 The Transfer Menu
- 3.28 The Window Menu
- 3.29 The Help Menu
- 4 Graphic Presentation and Maneuvering
- 5 Text-based Presentation for Printouts and Reports
- 6 Trends
- 7 Message Library
- 8 Alarm Management
- 9 Recipes
- 9.1 Calculation of Recipe Size
- 9.2 Recipe Properties and Recipe Directory
- 9.3 Creating a Recipe with the Operator Panel
- 9.4 Appending Recipes
- 9.5 Transferring Recipes to the Controller
- 9.6 Deleting Recipes
- 9.7 Using Recipes in a PC
- 9.8 Creating and Transferring Recipes with the Controller Program
- 9.9 Saving Individual Recipes on an External Memory Card in Runtime
- 10 Data Logger
- 11 Passwords
- 12 Printouts from the Operator Panel
- 13 Time Channels
- 14 Language Management
- 14.1 Unicode in the Operator Panel
- 14.2 Creating Additional Application Languages
- 14.3 Translating/Editing Texts in the Configuration Tool
- 14.4 Properties for the Application Language
- 14.5 Export
- 14.6 Import
- 14.7 Show Index
- 14.8 Cross Reference
- 14.9 Reuse Index
- 14.10 Font Templates
- 14.11 Unicode in E1012 and E1022
- 15 System Monitor
- 16 Index Addressing
- 17 Communication
- 18 Network Communication
- 19 Network Functions in the Operator Panel
- 20 LEDs
- 21 Function Keys
- 22 Macros
- 23 Project Transfer
- 24 Transfer of Controller Program and Parameters
- 25 Updating the Operator Panel
Network Communication
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18.6 Recommendations and Limitations for
Network Communication
To make the communication between operator panels and controllers in an operator
panel network (BDTP network) quick and efficient, it is important to optimize the
transfer of signals in the network. Read the chapter Efficient Communication and
carefully follow the recommendations to optimize the network functionality in the
operator panel. The maximum number of signals that can be transferred in an oper-
ator panel network is 3,000.
Example 1
An operator panel network consists of three clients and one server. Each client has
access to 1,000 signals, i.e. the server can handle (transfer to the different clients)
3,000 signals. This is also the case even if the address areas for the signals in the clients
correspond. Accordingly, it is not possible to transfer more signals in the operator
panel network.
Example 2
The server’s task is to collect together the addresses the clients are asking for.
Thereafter the server asks for the status in the controller, which is then distributed to
respective clients.
Example
An operator panel network (BDTP network) consists of 1 server and 5 clients. Each
operator panel contains 50 alarms with the same address. For the server, this means
that 50 addresses must be checked with the controller, but the server will then also
distribute 50 alarms to the respective client (5x50). The server therefore has 250
alarms to distribute.
Transparent Mode through Ethernet
For the function Transparent mode (see the chapter Communication) to function
with communication through Ethernet (the TCP/IP protocol,) the following re-
quirements must be fulfilled.
– The driver and its configuration tool must support communication in Transpar-
ent mode. For information, see the manual for respective driver and controller.
– If the configuration tool for the controller does not support project transfer
through TCP/IP, a PC program to convert the COM port to TCP/IP must be
used in the PC to communicate with the controller in Transparent mode through
the TCP/IP network.