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Bob, I'm not a Siemens expert, but here's a few things I've collected over the years.  - Siemens does a "Merge Logix with TIA Portal" online class every month.  It's designed for experienced Rockwell programmers.  I took the in person class years ago, so I'm not sure how good this one is.  It shows as a free for me, but I didn't finish the enrollment process to find out. https://www.sitrain-lms.com/CourseView.aspx?cps=1186&view=course&CourseCode=STR-TIOILUNI2 - Here's a link to some Siemens self learning training documents:  https://www.siemens.com/global/en/company/sustainability/education/sce/learning-training-documents.html - These videos helped, but most of the in depth ones appear to be subscription based on their website: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2eWdLk0-Ho&list=PLln3BHg93SQ_X5rPjqP8gLLxQnNSMHuj-&index=1&ab_channel=RealPars - Here's another YouTube channel, but I haven't checked all of the videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoicfkTh9PQ&list=PLRtRKudOMmtESeAAeO6CeLYpYRjRz2jv4&ab_channel=PLCProgramming

G_DeMark, Looking at the PDF you uploaded, it looks like your offline tag file is on a network drive. I'm not using v9.0, yet, but I have had issues in past versions of FT View ME not being able to handle the offline tag file being on network drives and it doesn't produce any type of error.  I never got a good explanation on why it does it either. We worked around it by either copying a file locally just for the offline tag browser or by creating a symbolic link to make the computer think the directory was local. Symbolic Link Instructions: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa363878(v=vs.85).aspx

chantecler, I'm not sure what data type that card uses, I haven't used that model PLC, yet.  Most of the 16 PT cards I have used are INT datatype under the custom hardware datatypes. A standard COP with the length of 1 works for me for all of the ControlLogix and CompactLogix input cards I use. As far as making sure the inputs don't change state, I make my "Map Inputs" it's own routine or task and make sure the program runs it at the beginning of the scan. Because of an old customer specification, I do the same thing for my outputs at the end of the scan.  I'm sure there was a reason for it, but I can;t recall at the moment.