ProSoft Technology ProSoft i-View - Manual (Page 60)

Data Source Files ProSoft i-View ♦ Mobile Process Monitoring and Control Application
User Manual Version 2.0.2
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September 29, 2011
3.2 Rockwell RSLogix 5000 as a Data Source Generator
ProSoft i-View accepts files generated directly from Rockwell's RSLogix development
environment as data sources. To import RSLogix files, follow the following steps.
3.2.1 Building a Project in RSLogix 5000
Create a new RSLogix project or open an existing one. Instructions for programming a
PLC are beyond the scope of this manual. Please refer to your RSLogix documentation.
3.2.2 Exporting Controller Tags from RSLogix 5000
Unfortunately, RSLogix does not provide a way to select and export selected tags to a
file. However it is possible to do a bulk export containing all global controller tags.
In RSLogix, right-click C
ONTROLLER T AGS . From the dropdown menu, select E XPORT
T AGS .
RSLogix will generate a special CSV file containing all global tags present in the project.
Tag source files generated in this way can contain attributes as described in Attributes
(page 24). If you need to specify attributes for ProSoft i-View, you can put them in the
Description column of the Controller Tags view in RSLogix. This is equivalent to filling
column D on an Excel-generated source.
Note: Files with a CSV extension created by RSLogix as described in this
section are structured differently from CSV files created in Excel as described
earlier. However, ProSoft i-View will recognize them as well.
Since RSLogix does not provide a convenient way to select a particular set of
tags before exporting, you may need to edit the exported file with Excel or a Text
Editor to adapt it to your needs. In this case you do not need to change its overall
structure and format - just eliminate redundant rows and you will be done.