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Watching and Monitoring of Composite FBs [message #1820991]

Tue, 04 February 2020 08:51

Mario Krizic

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Registered: April 2019

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Hello,

As there is a lot of function blocks to do a rather trivial task that needs to be repeated, while not interfering with the other functionality of my system, I decided to create a custom composite function block. But as there are some conversions that need to be done first, the structure changed a bit.

The original implementation is working as expected, but I am facing some troubles with my custom FB. One sensor value does not seem to read correctly even though the other one works perfectly fine, therefore not stopping the motor.

I need to see if the sensor was not initialized correctly or if I forgot to add a connection. Is there a way to monitor the inside blocks of the composite FB, in order to find the bug faster?

Thank you in advance.

EDIT: I've got it working, but is it planned to add such a feature in the future?

[Updated on: Tue, 04 February 2020 09:47]

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Re: Watching and Monitoring of Composite FBs [message #1821004 is a reply to message #1820991]

Tue, 04 February 2020 13:26

Jose Maria Jesus Cabral Lassalle

Messages: 199
Registered: February 2016

Senior Member

Hi,

usually you should be able to double click the instance of the Composite FB and then monitor the internal FBs. What was the problem in your case?

Regards,

Jose

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Re: Watching and Monitoring of Composite FBs [message #1821007 is a reply to message #1820991]

Tue, 04 February 2020 13:57

Alois Zoitl

Messages: 1584
Registered: January 2014

Senior Member

Hi,

yes this is possible. in your application double click on your CFB. This will open a CFB instance viewer. In this you can also watch the FBs.
Hope this helps in the future.

Cheers,
Alois

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