Configuring The Screens For The Text Display Device - Siemens S7-200 System Manual

Using the Text Display Wizard to Configure the S7-200 CPU for Your Text Display (TD) Device
Tip
The TD device only sets the bit on or off in the S7-200 CPU a single time when the TD
device button is either pressed or released.
Tip
The TD device can display a special icon that provides visual feedback to the operator and
shows that the set bit key was pressed in the CPU. To enable this feature, check the box at
the bottom of the Configure Keypad Buttons wizard screen (see the previous figure).
4.4

Configuring the Screens for the Text Display Device

Configuring the Screens for the TD Device
The TD device supports a set of user-defined screens and a user menu. Screens allow the
operator using the TD device to initiate the interaction with the S7-200 CPU. See the figure
below.
● User menu: Provides a hierarchy for switching between groups of screens. For the
● Screens: You create up to 8 screens for each entry in the user menu.
The TD device displays the screens and the items on the user menu in the order that you
configure them.
If you configure both alarms and screens, you also designate the default display mode for
the TD device.
The operator uses the buttons on the keypad to navigate through the user menu or the
screens that you configured.
Figure 4-13
The buttons that a TD operator could use to navigate from a user menu to the screens
associated with that item in the menu are shown below.
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TD 200, TD 200C, and the TD400C you configure up to 8 entries in the user menu. For
the TD 100C, you configure up to 4 entries in the user menu.
Configuring the Screens
4.4 Configuring the Screens for the Text Display Device
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