1756-EWEB Module: Web Server and More - Rockwell Automation

LAB 1: 1756-EWEB Module
Only the atomic data types
of BOOL, SINT, INT,
DINT, REAL and
STRING can be displayed
in a Data View
12. Click the Add button to add the tag to the new data view.
13. Click the Create View button to create the data view. (Note: A data view may
contain more than one tag of various types.)
14. Once the data view is created, we see a list of all the data views. Click the
My_View.xml link under “View Filename” to see the data view you just created.
Notice that an error is displayed where the tag’s value should be. The EWEB module
data views can not retrieve data directly from I/O. If we wish to access this data, we
must reference the data through an alias tag in the controller.
15. Click on the Data Views tab and then click the Edit button for your data view.
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16. Click the Edit button for the tag we created.
17. Once the view enters edit mode, change the Tag Name to “DI12_to_IB16D.”
18. Click the Update button followed by the Save View button.
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The EWEB data
views cannot read
directly from I/O.