Rockwell Automation 2711E-ND1 PanelBuilder 1400E Configurator Software Getting Started - Manual (Page 90)

6–6 Creating Control List Selectors and Tags
Publication 2711E-818 – January 1998
The Up Cursor and Down Cursor fields determine which cursor
buttons appear on the screen. You can remove either the Up or
Down cursor button from the screen, but not both. You don’t need
both cursor buttons for a list with only two states.
3. Click the Up Cursor Enabled box. The x disappears, indicating
that the cursor button is now disabled.
4. If you have a keypad application, assign F16 to the Down Cursor.
You’re now ready to configure the Selector Control.
Creating the Selector Control
When you converted the PanelBuilder 1200 application, all existing
addresses were automatically converted into tags. The tags are stored
in the tag database. Each control object, window, or PLC I/O Control
option has one or more tags assigned. In turn, each tag has an
address on the PLC. Some control objects, windows and PLC I/O
Control options also allow you to use expressions to perform
mathematical calculations, logic, or conditional logic operations on
the output from one or more tags. For more information about tags,
the tag database, and expressions, refer to the PanelBuilder 1400e
Configuration Software for Windows User Manual.
You must create a new tag for the Control List Selector. You can then
assign this tag as the Selector Control.
Create the tag in the Tag Database editor. There are two ways of
accessing the Tag Database editor:
•
through the System folder in the Application Window
•
through an object’s configuration dialog box
In this case, you’ll access the Tag Editor through the object’s
configuration dialog box.
To access the Tag Editor:
1. In the Configure Control List Selector dialog box, choose Assign
Tag.
The Tag Browser dialog box appears. In the Folders section there
is a single folder that contains all the application tags.
If you wanted to use an existing tag, you could choose a tag from
one of the folders. However, for this object you’ll want to create a
new tag.