Digital to table

Purpose

This combination allows you to show the values defined in a table object instead of the state names defined for a digital object.

Note that the combination requires that you first define a template of each type and connect them. Then you define an object of each type and connect again.

 

How it works

First, you create a digital template and a table template. The entries in the table correspond to the state names defined in the digital template. The digital template is connected to the table template.

Second, you define an object of each type based on the templates. The digital object is then connected to the table object. The values from the table object are now shown instead of the state names for the digital object.

 

Example

Assume that we want to create a pump, P2, with the following states:

Instead of the state names we want to show the values we define in a table object, P2Val:

We will then do the following:

 

  1. Create a digital template, PUMP, with the state names listed above.
  2. Create a table template, PVAL.
  3. Click the Data Management Definitions tab and select PUMP in the Connect To drop-down list.
  4. Click the Table tab and notice the combo boxes that allow you to select the state names defined in PUMP. Select the state names and type the values listed above.
  5. Create the table object, Pval based on the PVAL template.
  6. Create the digital object, P2, based on the PUMP template.
  7. Click the Data Management Definitions tab and select Pval in the Connect To drop-down list.

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