Bulk Building/Editing
Control Architect supports bulk building and editing of existing Cxxx and ACE based Control modules. Predefined Control Conversion templates and their views support the tasks required to define source and target properties, their binding (mapping) relationships, and the adapter binding to a Data Source that contains the Microsoft Excel based data to use in the build or edit Control Conversion tasks.
This is an optional licensed component within Control Architect.
A Control Conversion Workflow Process
A Control Conversion Workflow process requires 4 Control Conversion Template instances to be defined and a Data Collection to be executed on the Control Conversion template itself. The generated Data Collection is then referenced in a Workflow Task, which is executed to perform the building or editing of the selected output type.
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Add an instance of a Control Property Template and specify the properties that define the source of the conversion data. This would be data that resides in a Microsoft Excel Workbook file.
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Add another instance of a Control Property Template and specify the properties that define the target of the conversion process. This would typically be Cxxx configuration parameter names.
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Add an instance of a Control Binding Template to specify the binding relationships between your defined source and target property definitions. Expressions may need to be developed to transform the property values from the source into valid values required for the target Control System platform.
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Add an instance of a Control Conversion Template to specify the Data Source mapping and the output adapter to use. Currently Control Architect Control Conversion functions support XPM, PKS Cxxx/ACE, SCADA, and LCN EB output adapters.
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Execute a Data Collection generation from within the Control Conversion Template view.
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Add a Control Conversion Task to this Workflow view specifying the type of
ControlConversion Activity to execute on the saved Data Collection data.
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Using the Control Conversion Workflow Manager Task View
Workflow Session
A Workflow session allows you to define one or more Control Conversion tasks to be executed. Tasks defined in the Workflow session are saved to an external file and auto-restored when this Task view is opened.
Only a single Task view can be opened at the same time.
Honeywell EB File to Excel Conversion Workflow Activity
This conversion activity [EBToExcelActivity] supports converting Honeywell Exception Build (EB) type file data contained in text files to a Microsoft Excel Workbook file. You can convert one or more EB files during the same task execution to the same Excel Workbook where the Spreadsheet tabs represent a specific Template or point type found during the EB file parsing.
PKS Control Conversion Workflow Activity
This conversion activity [PKSConvertActivity] supports converting property data specified in a Data Collection to PKS Cxxx/ACE XML Configuration files. The Data Collection is generated from within the Control Conversion Template view. Options within the Data Collection view allow you to enable/disable entities and their property data that has been detected as changed (Bulk Edit) or requiring building (Bulk Build).
SCADA Control Conversion Workflow Activity
This conversion activity [SCADAConvertActivity] supports converting property data specified in a Data Collection to Quick Builder PNT Configuration text files. The Data Collection is generated from within the Control Conversion Template view. Options within the Data Collection view allow you to enable/disable entities and their property data that has been detected as changed (Bulk Edit) or requiring building (Bulk Build). The generated PNT files are imported into Quick Builder using its Import function.
EB Control Conversion Workflow Activity
This conversion activity [EBConvertActivity] supports converting property data specified in a Data Collection to LCN Exception Build (EB) Configuration text files. The Data Collection is generated from within the Control Conversion Template view. Options within the Data Collection view allow you to enable/disable entities and their property data that has been detected as changed (Bulk Edit) or requiring building (Bulk Build). The generated EB files are imported into the LCN using the PED Exception Build function.
Task Execution Results
During execution of a Workflow conversion task, status messages are written to the Output and Error views. You can optionally choose the option to Include Debug Information that provide additional data message during task execution to help in isolating any anomalies.
