Lenze PLC Designer PLC Designer (R2-x) - Manual (Page 698)

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696 DMS 3.2 EN 02/2011 TD29

• Column Placeholder will list all placeholders, which are currently used in the
configuration of the visualization object. Column Element number shows the
elements which contain a placeholder. In column Replacements you can enter one
or several strings (text, variable, expression) which you want to get available later
when replacing a placeholder during the configuration of an instance of the
visualization object. The elements of the selection must be entered separated by
commas. If no or an impossible replacement string is specified, then the
placeholder can be replaced with any desired text later during the configuration of
the visualization's reference.
• later you use the list of placeholders when configuring an instance of the above
mentioned visualization object, that means after this object has been inserted (as
a 'reference') in another visualization by the command 'Insert' 'Visualization'. For
this purpose do the following to open the dialog: Select the inserted visualization,
execute command 'Extras' 'Configure' and press button 'Placeholders' in Category
'Visualization'. In this case the dialog will only contain two columns:
List of placeholders for replacing a placeholder in a visualization instance
Column Placeholder – like described above – shows all placeholders which have
been defined for the primary visualization object. If additionally a selection of
possible replacements had been defined, this list will now be available in column
'Replacement'. Select one of the entries to replace the placeholder in the present
instance. If no replacements have been pre-defined then you can manually enter
an expression or variable. For this purpose perform a mouse-click on the field in
column Replacement to open an editor field.