Another great tool in the diagnostic utilities is the assignment list. In this lesson, we are going to discuss this tool, when and why you would want to use it, and how to deploy the tool. This tool will help you determine exactly what addresses have been used within your program as well as the tag name associated with the address. This tool gives you the all this information at a glance and is very helpful in the development of your PLC program or troubleshooting a program written by others. Let’s open this lesson and check out the assignment list tool.
In this continued discussion of the assignment list, we are going to demonstrate how to find where the addresses are used within the program. We will be utilizing the cross-reference tool that we have previously used in conjunction with the assignment list to locate the different blocks in which ...
This lesson continues our discussion about the assignment list, where we dive deeper into the viewing selection options as well as some more information about what we are seeing in the list itself. We will talk about a viewing option that demonstrates only used addresses while another option show...
As you have learned in the previous 3 lessons, the assignment list is a valuable tool available within the TIA Portal environment. Part 4 of this lesson topic, the assignment list, shows you a different color appearing in the list and exactly what it means. We will change some addressing around a...
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