Block Placement; Block Properties - Sutron Xpert2 Operation And Maintenance Manual

Block Placement

Some setup blocks require specific placements to work properly. Here are some examples:
 ComsTag block: in order for a ComsTag block to be able to retrieve a new ("live") value
from an input sensor, the ComsTag block must be placed after the sensor block, but
before any active blocks
 Display block: In order for the Display block to enable front panel calibration for a sensor
block, the Display block must be connected directly to the sensor block.
 Any passive (non-active) block with more than 1 input (e.g., XYFunct and Bool blocks):
in order to ensure this kind of block operates on data measured in the same frame, and to
avoid certain side effects that come from active blocks executing along split paths that
rejoin (like logging twice), place the measure block AFTER the block having the multiple
inputs.
See Appendix A for constraints of other blocks.

Block Properties

We now know a lot about what is happening with our example setup, but not everything. We
don't yet know, for example, the units the barometric pressure setup is going to return its data in,
or how often the solar radiation is going to be sampled, or what log file either data stream will be
saved to. For this information, we need to look at block properties.
To view the property window for a block, click the icon for the block once and then select Edit
Properties from the menu that appears:
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