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myDESIGNER USER MANUAL
  1. Introduction
    1. About myDESIGNER
  2. Tutorial videos
  3. Getting started with myDESIGNER
    1. Creating a project
    2. Workspace management
  4. Checking project
  5. Projects’ visual appearance
  6. GUI/HMI Editor
    1. Creating views
    2. Selecting objects
    3. Drawing primitives
    4. Creating text elements
    5. Inserting images
    6. Poly-lines
    7. Moving objects
    8. Resizing objects
    9. Rotating objects
    10. Skewing objects
    11. Filleting
    12. Combining objects
    13. Fill and stroke
    14. Rulers and guides
    15. Layers
    16. Copying and pasting elements
    17. Object's order
    18. Grouping
    19. Repeated actions mode
    20. View scripting
    21. Used tags
    22. Zooming on zone
    23. Undo and redo
    24. View properties
  7. Components
    1. Default components
    2. Custom components
    3. Used components
    4. Editing components
    5. Replacements
    6. On touch actions
    7. Entering advanced functions (equations)
  8. Components library
    1. Combo box, List box and Text box
      1. Inserting into view
      2. Components parameters
      3. Using components in view scripts
      4. Supported functions
    2. Chart component
  9. Active area
    1. Creating active areas
    2. External web page in active area
    3. HTML code
    4. DIV type
  10. Layout views
    1. Page layout
    2. Adding layout view
    3. Creating new layout
  11. Entering tags and math expressions
    1. Entering tags
    2. Entering mathematical expressions
  12. Tree tags database
    1. Changing tag value
    2. Engineering units
    3. Filtering data
    4. Usage count
    5. MS Excel import and export
    6. Tag import
    7. Deleting unused tags
    8. Restoring tag database
    9. Specifying a new tag during development
  13. Formatting numerical values
  14. Linking views with PLC
    1. Animations
      1. Show value animation
      2. Value to text mapping animation
      3. Visibility animation
      4. Opacity animation
      5. Color animation
      6. Moving animation
      7. Size animation
      8. Scale animation
      9. Rotate animation
      10. Circular sector animation
      11. Zoom visibility animation
      12. Sounds
      13. Sounds triggered by tag value
    2. Effects
  15. Time Sequence
    1. Time sequence example
    2. Triggering time sequences
    3. Modifying time settings
    4. Adding new sequences
    5. Renaming time sequence
    6. Switching among time sequence
    7. Modifying timing
    8. Combining multiple time sequences
  16. Open command
    1. Open type
    2. Target
    3. Popup (face plate) window
    4. View type
  17. Write/Set command
    1. Using batches
    2. Specifying set command parameters
    3. Value options
  18. Scaling set values
    1. Set example
  19. Key shortcuts
  20. On touch
    1. On touch in views
    2. On touch in component
    3. On touch example
    4. Lock element
    5. Lock key
    6. Slider
  21. Parametric views
    1. Opening parametric views
    2. Symbolic text replacements
    3. Symbolic tag creation
    4. Replacing connections
    5. Nesting parametric views
    6. Usage example:
  22. View scripts
    1. Using script in views
    2. Declaring variables
    3. Script writing
    4. Using variables in animations and effects
    5. Debugging view scripts
    6. Using debug screen on your view
    7. Using web browsers integrated debugger
    8. Using JavaScript libraries - Includes
    9. Linking external JavaScript libraries – Remote includes
  23. View scripts - list of functions
    1. Dealing with elements
    2. ListBox, TextBox and ComboBox functions
    3. View scripts animations
    4. View scripts effects
    5. Error frames
    6. View scripts zoom
    7. View scripts open command
    8. Users, language and login
    9. Retrieving files
    10. Communicating with server side scripts
    11. View scripts tables
    12. Alarms and aggregated alarms
    13. Data - Log data
    14. Custom charts
    15. Tag info
    16. Other useful functions
  24. Documents
  25. Reports
    1. Creating report templates
    2. Designing report
    3. Inserting text
    4. Adding picture – logo
    5. Table data
    6. Table summary
    7. Previewing report during design
    8. Showing report in runtime
    9. Creating custom report in runtime
    10. Creating report on demand
  26. CAS alarms
    1. Digital alarms
    2. Analog alarms
    3. Alarm window
    4. Alarm history
      1. CAS alarms occurrence - Chart/Table
    5. CAS alarms in view - example
    6. CAS alarms preview of appearance
  27. Data logging
    1. Data - logs
    2. Defining connection
    3. Defining data points
    4. Continuous data logging
    5. Triggered data logs
    6. Triggered logging example
    7. Simple periodic export to CSV and Microsoft Power BI
    8. Data-logs properties
  28. Data - Log views
    1. Data points selection
    2. Data grouping
    3. Data filtering
    4. ✵ 3D chart
    5. Data-logs preview - appearance editor
  29. Aggregated data logs
    1. Creating aggregated data log
    2. Aggregated values:
    3. Time aggregates
    4. Value change aggregates
    5. Aggregates based on alarm activation
    6. Running the aggregation periodically
  30. Advanced trends
    1. Using multiple axes
    2. Advanced trends – visual appearance
    3. Gantt chart
  31. Connections
    1. Creating new connection
    2. Creating PLC type connection
    3. Creating database type connection
    4. Creating IoT type connection
    5. Deleting connections
    6. Advanced options - optimizations
  32. User accesses
    1. Access levels
    2. Access groups
    3. User accounts
    4. Limited access for whole project
    5. Limited access for views and trends
    6. Limited access of arbitrary object in views
    7. ✵ User edit in runtime
    8. ✵ RFID
  33. Multi - language support
    1. Providing translations inside a project
    2. Translating names of Views
    3. Translating Data - logs
    4. Translating CAS alarms
    5. Translating advanced trends
  34. * Server-side scripts
    1. Server-side scripts folder
    2. Server-side scripts folder structure
    3. Variables tables
    4. Script data-logs
    5. Global variables
    6. Sources folder
    7. Organizing project into modules
    8. Importing modules
    9. Using the event-driven asynchronous callbacks
    10. Creating server side reports
    11. mySCADA specific functions
    12. Debugging
    13. Script status (on myBOX devices only)
    14. Ser2Net (on myBOX devices only)
  35. View and server side scripts – common tasks
    1. Graphical guides
    2. Read/Write data from/to PLC
    3. Generating report
    4. Other guides
    5. Server side scripts – examples
    6. Reading data from PLC
    7. Writing data into PLC
    8. Timers – eg. run code in given time intervals
    9. Scheduled execution e.g run code every Monday at 2:00 PM
    10. Generating a report at given time interval
    11. Limiting access to generated files
    12. Processing data-log data
    13. Exporting data-log data into CSV files
    14. Using virtual PLC
    15. Sending data from view script into server side scripts
  36. Devices
  37. EtherNet/IP driver
  38. MicroLogix and SLC driver
  39. Modbus driver
    1. Modbus tag name syntax
    2. 32-bit registers in Modbus
    3. Floating point numbers
    4. 32-bit integers
    5. Address mapping
    6. Signed and unsigned numbers
  40. Siemens S7 family PLCs driver
    1. S7 memory types
    2. S7 data types
    3. S7 1200/1500 notes
    4. LOGO! 0BA7/0BA8 configuration
    5. S7-200 (via CP243-1) configuration
  41. OPC UA driver
    1. OPC UA tag name syntax
    2. OPC UA connection configuration
  42. MELSEC-Q driver
    1. MELSEC-Q tag name syntax
    2. MELSEC-Q connection configuration
  43. SigFox driver
    1. SigFox data types
    2. Reverse order
  44. KNX driver
    1. KNX notes
  45. Databases driver
    1. Reading values from SQL database
    2. Examples
    3. Writing values to SQL database
    4. Using SQL connectivity in Server Side Scripts
  46. Download/Upload from/to device
    1. Download to device
    2. Upload from device
  47. * Recipes
    1. Recipes Advanced
  48. * Running hours
  49. * Timeline
  50. * mySCADA TIA portal connector

22.2.Declaring variables #

You can declare your variables in the Variables Window:

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There are four types of variables to use:

  • Input variables: use these variables for reading data from the PLC; each time the script is evaluated it first reads the PLC tags and stores them in the input variables
  • Output variables: after the script evaluation, the output variable values are written into the PLC; you can set whether it will write the value each time the script is evaluated or only upon change – this is controlled via the Update field (Always, On Change)
  • Value Memory: here you can declare your persistent variables; when a view is loaded, memory variable has its default value; you can change this value in   the script and it will prevail until you switch to a different view or close  the application
  • String Memory: String Memory variables are the same as Value Memory variables, but are of string type
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