6 - The Resources

6 The Resources

6.1Overview of the Resources

In the Resources register card of the Object Organizer, there are objects for configuring and organizing your project and for keeping track of the values of the variables:

•Global Variables that can be utilized in the entire project; the global variables of the project as well as the libraries.

•Alarm configuration for the organization of an alarm system in the CoDeSys project

•Library Manager for handling all libraries which are included to the project

•Log for recording the activities during the online sessions

•PLC Configuration for configuring your hardware

•Watch and Receipt Manager for indicating and presetting variable values

•Task Configuration for controlling your program control via tasks

•Target settings for selecting the hardware platform (target) and if available for customizing target specific parameters

•Workspace as an image of the project options

Depending on the target settings the following resources also might be available:

•Parameter Manager for managing variables, which are also accessible for other participants in the network. This functionality will only be available if defined in the corresponding target settings.

•PLC Browser for monitoring of information from the PLC

•Sampling Trace for graphic logging of variable values

•Tools for linking external tools, which then can be started in CoDeSys. This functionality will only be available if defined in the corresponding target settings.

•The SoftMotion functionality (license needed): CNC program list (CNC Editor) and CAMs (CAMEditor) (see the separate documentation on SoftMotion).

Additionally there might be created and loaded a Docuframe file which offers a set of comments for the project variables (e.g. in a certain language), which will be printed when documenting the project with 'Project' 'Document'.