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Dynamic Channel Names

Chris Litwin 3 years ago in IQANdesign • updated by 705David 3 weeks ago • 3

Is it possible to add the ability to define channel names dynamically with text parameters? It's nice to have one IQAN application that controls multiple configurations of the same machine. I know we could generically name the channels, but it really helps the serviceability to title the channels based on function or component.

Gustav Widén (System support) 3 years ago

I think it could be quite tricky to have the value of another channel as name. 

Maybe this idea could work if name and captions were separated (like on some display controls), but that would eat memory. 

But we do have some ideas on more efficient ways of defining machine variants. If it is for variants that are set for a specific machine and does not change, maybe some future idea on variant handling could solve this. 

Chris Litwin 3 years ago

Or something similar to how the different language options change the name.

Yeah, it would be for machine variants. 

705David 3 weeks ago

With variants I believe you can use a different XC4X Module to change the naming of the IO points. However this doesn't work with MC4X modules or other master displays.

I would really like the ability to dynamically set IO point names based on either variants or with a state parameter or text parameter because it would resolve a lot of issues with field troubleshooting of Open Load or High/Low errors on inputs when you have a single program that works on multiple machines.

I can't find a way to do this in IQAN7 as it is.

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