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Update Equipment Process is Slow using a Custom Equipment Type Created in XML

Miguel

Hello

We are using Equipment Type "TESYS" that have about 400 elements in XML file.

The XML file are Created by Excel script

For testing, we create 2 instances of this type. The system works however is too slowly. 

Bellow we can find an example for a variable item. 

<output name="VARIABLE.5" file="variable.dbf" filter="'{equipment.type}={type.name}'">
<calculator name="MyAddrcalc1">{equipment.param_list[StartReadAddress]} + 6</calculator>
<field name="NAME" key="true">{equipment.TAGPREFIX}_Segundo</field>
<field name="TYPE">UINT</field>
<field name="UNIT">{equipment.IODEVICE}</field>
<field name="COMMENT">{equipment.COMMENT} - Data do Equipamento - Segundo</field>
<field name="CLUSTER" key="true">{equipment.CLUSTER}</field>
<field name="EQUIP">{equipment.name}</field>
<field name="ADDR">{MyAddrcalc1}</field>
<field name="ITEM">Segundo</field>
<field name="TAGGENLINK" load="true">TESYS.VARIABLE.5</field>
<field name="LINKED">1</field>
<field name="EDITCODE">3939343</field>
</output>

There is something wrong in this output that can be the source of slowness?

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  • Hi Miguel,
    Someone at AVEVA already asked me the same question, but this tool is not my own software. It is built by a customer and I don't have the source code, nor do I have the permission to share it.

    I can only explain what it does and how it was designed:
    It was developed in Visual Studio VB.Net and it rebuilds dbf files from scratch using the dBaseIII format for which some documentation was found on the Internet. These are the steps the tool take to update project files:
    1. On startup, the tool displays a GUI that allow to select a Citect project from a list. This list is taken from Citect's MASTER.dbf
    2. The tool reads the project's equip.dbf and the XML-definitions in memory of all equipment types it can find in the included projects
    3. The tool deletes and rebuilds the following files (byte-by-byte) from scratch: variable.dbf, digalm.dbf, advalm.dbf
    4. Finally the tool calls Citect's internal Reindex.exe tool to recreate the dbf indexes, otherwise a user has to perform a 'file -> pack' from the Project Editor.
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  • Hi Miguel,
    Someone at AVEVA already asked me the same question, but this tool is not my own software. It is built by a customer and I don't have the source code, nor do I have the permission to share it.

    I can only explain what it does and how it was designed:
    It was developed in Visual Studio VB.Net and it rebuilds dbf files from scratch using the dBaseIII format for which some documentation was found on the Internet. These are the steps the tool take to update project files:
    1. On startup, the tool displays a GUI that allow to select a Citect project from a list. This list is taken from Citect's MASTER.dbf
    2. The tool reads the project's equip.dbf and the XML-definitions in memory of all equipment types it can find in the included projects
    3. The tool deletes and rebuilds the following files (byte-by-byte) from scratch: variable.dbf, digalm.dbf, advalm.dbf
    4. Finally the tool calls Citect's internal Reindex.exe tool to recreate the dbf indexes, otherwise a user has to perform a 'file -> pack' from the Project Editor.
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