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Communicating with PanelView 900
Terminals on a DeviceNet Network
Publication 2755-6.8
Use the form view of the tag editor toEF enter DeviceNet tags. Do
not use the table view since it does not show all of the DeviceNet
fields.
I/O Slave Tag Form View
Explicit-Server Tag Form View
Explicit-Client Tag Form View
Field
Description
Valid Characters
Notes
Tag Name
➀➁
The name of the tag
Maximum characters = 32
•
A - Z, a - z, 0 - 9
•
hyphen (-), underscore(_),
percent (%)
•
if you type an invalid character, the Tag Editor
beeps and does not display it
•
the tag name must be unique within a project
•
cannot begin with 0 - 9, hyphen (-), or percent (%)
•
tag names are not case-sensitive
•
do not use blanks, tabs, carriage returns,
non-printable characters
Data Type
The data format for the tag
Select one of the following:
•
bit
•
4BCD
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unsigned integer
•
signed integer
•
IEEE Float
•
bit array
•
character array
•
the data type must be compatible with the data
format selected in the object’s dialog.
Alternate Methods:
Type the first letter of the data type. For
example, type b for the bit data type.
Use the
TAB
key to move to the Data Type
field and press
ALT+
↓
to display the list of
available formats.
Object Dialog
Tag Editor
Table continued on the next page.
PanelView Tag Editor
