General Recipe Column Properties
Each Recipe object has been designed to manage any required number of
values to be recorded, and therefore Database columns. If an ODBC link
is used, the maximum number of columns that can be managed will depend
on the database format type being used and the ODBC
link.
Each database column has to be associated to a project variable through
the column's General property.
To change a Recipe's General Column properties, select the object and
use the Movicon 'Properties Window' that
appears.
To get more details on the General Common Properties that are common
to both Recipes and Data Loggers, please refer to the "General Data Logger and Recipe Column Properties"
paragraph.
Recipe
Index
This is used to enter an index for the column in question in order to
identify the recipe it represents. Only one recipe index can be defined
for each recipe.
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Even though the column has
been enabled as the "Recipe Index", it is also possible
to use a numeric variable index type and not necessarily a string
variable type. In this case the recipe index field in the
database will still be created as a string type, but Movicon will
only accept numeric values within it as the recipe's name. When
a numeric index is used, the command ( "Create
Recipe Screen") which generates the screen to edit recipes,
will create a "Display" control to enter the recipe
name.
The use of numeric indexes
will allow the activation of recipes with numeric indexes to be
managed by variables that are read externally by using the communication
driver or OPC.
Furthermore, in order
to obtain a numerical order of index values in display objects,
you will need to set the "xx" index variable default
format so that the recipe names are displayed in order with two
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Recipe
Temp. Variable
This is used to enter the name of the Variable from the Movicon Real
Time DB which will be used as a temporary variable to hold the recipe's
data. The values contained in the 'Temp. Variable' are copied into the
recipes output variable only when the recipe's activation command is executed.
