Watch- and Recipe Manager \ Extensions

Note

Before you can use Watch- and Recipe Manager, it has to be activated.

For this, check the option Tabular watch editor in menu Project => Options … => Tab Desktop.

The Watch window displays the values in a table oriented view. The columns available columns are

• name
• value
• address
• prepared value
• receipt value
• comment.

The table display is used both in offline and in online mode. It is not necessary to switch on or off monitoring mode to insert or delete a variable. It is possible to insert and append a variable in online and offline mode at any time. In addition it is also possible to add an address range.

The online value is displayed in CoDeSys in online mode only.

A “+” will appear in the first column in case of Function Block instances, structured variables and arrays. It allows to expand and collapse them.

The editor allows manually to

• add watch entries
• delete watch entries
• change the name of a watch entry.

In online mode, the prepared value can be defined with a dialog. More than one prepared value can be selected. It is possible to enter the same value for all of them. One or more prepared values can be sent to the PLC via menu Online -> Write Variables or Online -> Force variables.