Errors migrating project from CitectSCADA 7.10r0.28 to PlantSCADA 2023 (update 06)

Olá Angelo

Probably there is an error in the variable tag name. It seams to be a spanish project and now is in a portuguese operation system. 

I would search for a special character like ñ, ç, õ, etc in the tag name and replace it with correspondent letter without accent.

You can open the original variable.dbf file in excel just to search for the tag. And also to check if you are loosing tags or not.

May be there are tag names starting with numbers, but I think that will not make that error. For that there is a citect.ini file o enable tags starting with numbers.

Olá Ventura,

You are correct, it is indeed a project that was started by a spanish integrator in a portuguese factory, and now I'm tasked with doing a migration to the latest PlantSCADA.

Thanks for your tips, I checked the variable.dbf file, and checked that no tag started with a number, I also confirmed that there where no such characters.

Both the original and the imported projects have the same number of tags, so far so good.

I have a new question, if you dont mind, almost all tags are greyed out, with only the last 13 being in full black text, on the left side there is also a lock symbol, but I can't find any setting about locking a tag.

Thank you for your help.

Hi again.

That is not a "lock" symbol, is a "link" symbol, that means the tags are linked to an external source as Eric Black answered correctly your previous question. The same grey color also appears in the tags created by the equipment editor (this is not the case as the equipment name is empty in your image).

If the tags are correct you can leave them as they are, it works well with grey or black color, and you still can change some fields like ranges or comments (I think) . But if you want to change something like the tag name or address or add the equipment you need to have them in black. One easy way is to select the limes you need to change (to a max of 1000 each time) and copy them like in excel (and in the end delete the grey ones.

From your image, to remove the warnings you also need to use the hostname instead of IP in the Topology - edit - network address, and fill a few fields in the roles (the warnings are self explained). I also can see that you are using modbus, probably modnet, so probably is a Schneider PLC. Depending on the time and budget you have, and also the age of the PLC, may be interesting to think in change the communication to OFS (the address will be the PLC tag name (easy work is the citect tags already have the same name as the plc, harder otherwise) and the performance may be better, that depends of several factors, but usually is better).

Regards

Hi again.

That is not a "lock" symbol, is a "link" symbol, that means the tags are linked to an external source as Eric Black answered correctly your previous question. The same grey color also appears in the tags created by the equipment editor (this is not the case as the equipment name is empty in your image).

If the tags are correct you can leave them as they are, it works well with grey or black color, and you still can change some fields like ranges or comments (I think) . But if you want to change something like the tag name or address or add the equipment you need to have them in black. One easy way is to select the limes you need to change (to a max of 1000 each time) and copy them like in excel (and in the end delete the grey ones.

From your image, to remove the warnings you also need to use the hostname instead of IP in the Topology - edit - network address, and fill a few fields in the roles (the warnings are self explained). I also can see that you are using modbus, probably modnet, so probably is a Schneider PLC. Depending on the time and budget you have, and also the age of the PLC, may be interesting to think in change the communication to OFS (the address will be the PLC tag name (easy work is the citect tags already have the same name as the plc, harder otherwise) and the performance may be better, that depends of several factors, but usually is better).

Regards

If IP addresses are still preferred, fill in the associated DNS names in Computers Table. This is required by the encrypted communication as the TLS certificate is bound with Hostname not IP.

Hi Nuno,

Thanks for clarifying that its a link (makes sense, it looks more like a chain link..). I will see if I can edit them using Excell when it comes time to merge the projects.

I had already removed those warnings, but since I was doubting myself thinking that I had broke the project I did a fresh import.

You are indeed correct regarding the PLC, the whole factory uses Schneider M340 PLCs, most are from 2011/2012 so I can't upgrade the firmware past 2.20. There are 6 PLCs in total on the install, with near 2000 digitalO points plus some 80 VFDs controlled via analog signals.

I will look into how the whole OFS thing works and will test it on my local test bed since I didn't know about it, thank you for letting me know that it exists.