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Model Name

Enter a name for the recipe model in the text field. Duplicate names are not allowed.

Recipe Area Start Position

Recipes use a block of consecutive addresses on the connected PLC. Enter the starting address of this block in the ‘Recipe area start position’ field. A direct address or real tag name can be used. The address or tag data must be in Word or DWord (INT, UINT, Float) format. All address or tag data in the recipe must be of the same data type.

Data Number

‘Data number’ indicates the number of data items used in each group. You can assign between 1 and 10,000 data items.

Group Number

‘Group number’ indicates the number of “profiles” available for the recipe. A single group can include many data items, but each group stores different values for the data items. When a different group is selected, the entire data block will be set to the selected group’s values. You can use between 1 and 1,024 groups.

Handshake Use

The ‘Handshake Use’ option is enabled by default. This feature is used to verify the communication status while recipe data is being transferred. If you do not wish to use a handshake, uncheck the check box. In this case, you cannot use tags to monitor the communication status of a specific recipe transfer.

※ This option is supported in XpanelDesigner V2.53 and above.

Handshake

The Xpanel recipe system takes care of the handshaking process automatically. Because these tag values will be changed during recipe transfers, you should assign addresses which that are not used by the PLC or by other parts of the Xpanel application. Only real tags can be used for the handshake process.

Word

Enter an analog tag or address. This is used to control uploading/downloading. You may use a WORD (16-bit) or DWORD (32it).

Bit

Enter a digital tag or address, This is used to check the state of uploading/downloading.

Group Number

Enter an analog tag or address. This is used to store the current recipe group number by PLC request.

Automatically File Store On PLC Managed Upload

When you modify data values and then upload or download group data from a PLC, the Xpanel recipe group settings will be changed. Changes will remain in the Xpanel memory while the power is ON; they will be deleted when the power is turned OFF. This means that modified settings must be saved to a file in order to keep the changes.

When this option is enabled, changes to PLC group data will be uploaded and saved to a file automatically.