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Auto-Configure Group by Device vs. Auto-Configure Group by Data
Type
There are two different methods for Auto-Configure:
Group by Device
or
Group by Data Type
.
There are a couple of rules to keep in mind when using Auto-Configure Mode:
1)
If the other protocol inside the gateway is a server, slave, or adapter protocol, then there are no
differences between the Auto-Configure Modes.
Group by Device (Default Method)
Group by Device goes through the other protocol on the gateway and auto-configures the data points
on the web interface for all the data points on the other protocol’s first device. After it finishes with the
first device, it will auto-configure all the points for the second device (if one is configured), and so on.
Group by Data Type
Group by Data Type goes through the other protocol on the gateway and automatically creates the
number of data points in the web interface to match the total number of data points for each specific
data type in the other protocol.
Example
:
Protocol A is a master/client protocol that has two devices with the following setup:
Device_1 has 1 integer scan line, 1 float scan line, 1 integer scan line- each for 1 point of data
Device_2 has 1 integer scan line, 1 float scan line, each for 2 point2 of data
Protocol B is the Web Interface protocol that will be mapped with seven data points, but
the ordering differs slightly between the two auto-configure modes:
Group by Device
Group by Data Type
Data Point 1 => Type Integer (DeviceA:Int1)
Data Point 2 => Type Integer (DeviceA:Int1)
Data Point 3 => Type Float (DeviceA:Float2)
Data Point 4 => Type Integer (DeviceB:Int1)
Data Point 5 => Type Integer (DeviceB:Int2)
Data Point 6 => Type Float (DeviceB:Float1)
Data Point 7 => Type Float (DeviceB:Float2)
Data Point 1 => Type Integer (DeviceA:Int1)
Data Point 2 => Type Integer (DeviceA:Int2)
Data Point 3 => Type Integer (DeviceB:Int1)
Data Point 4 => Type Integer (DeviceB:Int2)
Data Point 5 => Type Float (DeviceA:Float1)
Data Point 6 => Type Float (DeviceB:Float1)
Data Point 7 => Type Float (DeviceB:Float2)
NOTE
: When using Auto-Configure with the web interface, the difference between the two
methods is subtle. The
# of Read Data Points
and the
# of Write Data Points
will be the same
regardless of which Auto-Configure method is chosen. The only difference between the two
methods is the way the data is ordered in the data table.
