Rockwell Automation 47C626 AutoMax Programming Executive V4.2 - Manual (Page 42)

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information, the site manager would need to run Transfer from the
System menu, and select the SystemĆwide information only" option.
The site manager may wish to consider making sets of the
systemĆwide information floppies available whenever this information
changes.
Once the racks and systemĆwide information are on floppies, the site
manager will need to transfer them to the portable personal
computer. To do this, the site manager should run the Executive on
the portable and select Transfer from the System menu. Using the
SystemĆwide information only" option, he should transfer the system
information from the floppies to the hard disk. Once the system
information is there, he can select the system, section, and rack(s)
desired, and use Transfer from either the Section or Rack menus to
transfer the rack files from the floppies.
To transfer the racks back to the site manager for backup, printing,
network updates, etc., an operator should Transfer from the Section
or Racks menu to transfer the files, first to floppies, and then to the
site manager. The systemĆwide information should never be
transferred from the portable personal computer to the site manager.
Some Precautions
When racks and copies of the systemĆwide information are
distributed to various personal computers, all users who have copies
of the same files must be aware that only one of the copies can be
considered to be read/write. All other copies are to be considered
readĆonly. Since the systemĆwide information is used by all racks, it
should only be changed when the entire system is present on the
hard disk. For this reason, the copy of the systemĆwide information at
the site manager should be considered the only changeable copy.
This means that no changes to the system structure, such as adding
or removing sections and racks, should be made on the portable
personal computers. No changes to networkĆwide variables should
be made on the portable personal computers because these are also
part of the systemĆwide information. Any network changes that are
required for deĆbugging on the portable personal computers should
be done with unlinked local variables. These changes must later be
made networkĆwide when the rack is transferred back to the site
manager's PC. When a rack is transferred from the site manager to a
portable personal computer for debugging, the copy at the site
manager must be considered readĆonly.
StepĆbyĆStep Procedure for System Transfer using the Transfer
Command
Use the following procedure to transfer systems using the Transfer
command. If you are transferring to diskettes, you will need at least
one diskette for each rack in the system. You will be prompted for
additional diskettes, if needed. Diskettes can be formatted as needed
or, to save time, you can use blank preĆformatted diskettes. Figure
5.6 illustrates the System Transfer dialog box.
Step 1.
Select the system(s) to be transferred from the systems
list.
Step 2. Select Transfer from the System menu. The Transfer
dialog box will be displayed with the current AutoMax
Executive drive and library (as designated in AutoMax
Setup) listed in a box on the top left.
Step 3. Enter information for the following fields. Some fields may
contain default entries. If you do not change these fields,
the default will be used.