Siemens S7-1200 TELECONTROL Operating Instructions Manual page 66

Configuration and operation
4.9 STEP 7 configuration
If the names of the PLC tags in the CP into which the import is made have different names
than in the CP that exported, the corresponding data points cannot be assigned to your PLC
tags.
Importing into several CPs
You can import the data points from several CPs into the CPs of a different project. To do
this in the import dialog select all the required CSV files with the control key.
Before importing the data points, make sure that the respective stations have been created
with CPUs of the same name, CPs of the same name and PLC tags of the same name.
When you import the corresponding stations of the project are searched for based on the CP
names in the CSV files. If a target station does not exist in the project or the CP has a
different name, the import of the particular CSV file will be ignored.
Restrictions for the import of data points
In the following situations the import of data points will be aborted:
● The telecontrol protocol used by the CP differs from that of the original CP.
The following CPs with the "TeleControl Basic" protocol are compatible with each other:
– CP 1242-7 GPRS V2
– CP 1243-1
– CP 1243-7 LTE
This means, for example, that data points can be imported from a CP 1243-1 into a
CP 1243-7 LTE or from a CP 1242-7 GPRS V2 to a CP 1243-1.
● An attribute required by the CP is missing in the CSV file to be imported.
Example: If a data point to be imported uses a time trigger, the import will be aborted if no
time-of-day synchronization was configured for the CP.
Only when importing into several CPs:
● The import is aborted when a CP or CPU name is different from the data in the CSV file.
Assignment repair
If you have named the PLC tags in a station into which you want to import differently from
the station from which the CSV file was exported, the assignment between data point and
PLC tag is lost when you import.
You then have the option to either rename the existing PLC tags appropriately or add
missing PLC tags. You can then repair the assignment between unassigned data points and
PLC tags. This function is available either via the shortcut menu of the CP (see above) or
with the following icon to the upper left in the data point editor:
If a PLC tag with a matching name is found for a data point by the repair function, the
assignment is restored. However the data type of the tag is not checked.
After the assignment repair make sure that you check whether the newly assigned PLC tags
are correct.
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CP 1242-7 GPRS V2