Siemens SIMATIC PCS 7 Function Manual page 163

The archive has the following structure:
POS
NAME
UOM
FORMAT
ENUM_MAT
HL
LL
DESCR
TXTLIB
FCT_BLOCK_IO_NAME
VISIBLE
EDITABLE
NORM
Format coding
The following table shows the format coding in "INTEGER":
0
1
2
3
4
5
10
11
12
13
14
15
20xx
21xx
22xx
Advanced Process Functions (APF)
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Element
Integer value
INTEGER 32
REAL without decimal places
REAL with 1 decimal place
REAL with 2 decimal places
REAL with 3 decimal places
REAL with 4 decimal places
STRING 8 characters
STRING 16 characters
STRING 32 characters
STRING 64 characters
STRING 128 characters
STRING 14 characters (for PLM Dairy Library)
DATE
TIME
DATE AND TIME
Description
Position in the visualization order
Parameter name
Unit of parameter
Format of parameter
Coding/enumeration of parameter
High limit of operator control for numerical values
Low limit of operator control for numerical values
Description of the parameter
ID for multilingual management in the text library
Name of the output in the corresponding function
block
Display of the attribute in the process picture
Can be edited on the AS
The value of the archive element "NORM" deter‐
mines the algorithm in the "FB_CalcValueBy‐
Norm" / "FB_RecalcValueByNorm" functions
which is used for normalizing the corresponding
parameter.
Parameter management
6.4 User archives
INTEGER 32
STRING[32]
STRING[16]
INTEGER 32
STRING[16]
DOUBLE
DOUBLE
STRING[128]
INTEGER 32
STRING[20]
INTEGER 32
INTEGER 32
INTEGER 32
Format
Format
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