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Protocol Editing Tool
CAP 505
3. Protocol Editing Tool
functionality
User’s Guide
3.5.
Changing active function blocks
When selecting the Active Function Blocks from the Edit menu, the following
window opens. In this window the user can choose which function blocks are active
and which are inactive (cell texts of inactive function blocks are
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Active function blocks are selected manually from the list.
If you click the “Automatic selection according to configuration” check box in the
lower left corner, the function blocks will be selected automatically according to the
relay configuration. The relay configuration is done with the Relay Configuration
tool found in CAP 505. The function block list will be updated at the start-up of the
“Active Functions Blocks” dialog.
After you have made your selections and pressed OK, the main tables will be
redrawn. You can save the “Active Function Blocks” settings with the protocol
configuration by using the “Save” or “Save as” commands.
3.6.
Communications
The POD tool provides the following communication operations with a connected
device:
• Uploading and downloading the POD tables.
• Reading and writing a checksum which is used for consistency checking.
• Sending “store” and “hardware reset” commands.
• Reading diagnostics variables.
