M800V/M80V Series PLC Development Manual
5 Peripheral Development Environment (GX Works2)
5.8 PLC Message Development
5.8.7 Writing Message Data Using GX Works2
Aside from being directly input on GX Works2, message data can be described as text data on generally available text editor
and commercial spreadsheet software. Create text data with Unicode (with BOM) character code, and use ".csv" as the
extension.
5.8.7.1 Written Form
Message data is described in the written formats shown below.
The description format cannot be omitted. Even when a message text is blank, tab (^), comma (,), and [CR+LF] are needed to
be written.
Message type
Alarm message
^ A ,
Operator message
^ O ,
PLC switch
^ P ,
Comment message
^ M ,
Message classification
: A one-byte alphabetic character expressing each message classification
code
Index No.
: One-byte numeric character (between 0 and the maximum number of messages -1)
Data register No.
: One-byte numeric character
Switch No.
: One-byte numeric character (between 0 and the maximum number of messages -1)
Device
: One-byte numeric character (1 or 2)
Device No.
: One-byte numeric character(0 ~ 10)
Message character
: One-byte alphanumeric (character), shift JIS the first level character, the number of characters
string
for the maximum message length.
Semicolons, commas, spaces, and tabs can be used. The tab at the top of a message text is
ignored.
Tab (^)
: Message data identification code. Add one at the top of message data.
Comma (,)
: Delimiter of description elements
(Use only comma to make message text is blank)
Line feed code
: (CR/LF)
Backslash (\)
: Continue to next line.
When the end of a description is a backslash, continue to the top character of the next line.
Description format
Index No. ,
Data register No.,
Index No. ,
Data register No.,
Switch No.,
Message character string Line feed code
device,
Device No.,
181
Message character
Line feed code
string
Message character
Line feed code
string
Message character
Line feed code
string
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