Comments transferring GX2

[Ron_S 61]

I'll admit that I am a dinosaur when it comes to upgrading software.

I used medoc exclusively for years after windows versions of the software came out.

I eventually moved to GX Developer and got used to it's quirks - and loved it.

I have now installed GX Works 2 & 3 and one thing I have noticed with GX2 is that a program is saved as a single file.

 

I have not used it 'live' so to speak so I have some queries for those of you that are already used to it.

How do you get the comments out of the single file?

May seem a strange question - but I have a few customers that dabble with programs (and generally mess them up too)

So when I go there, I upload the program from the plc (to make sure I have the latest version) and then transfer the comments from my last saved version to the newly uploaded version.

I do this by saving both versions then moving the file 'COMMENTS.wcd' from the old to the new version. I then have the newest commented version - albeit without comments for the latest alterations.

Is this possible with GX2?

 

Also, when downloading a program, is there still the option to d/l the comments or not

 

Thank you

[Gambit 324]

Yes you can download the comment file.

In GX works 2 open your comment file. Right mouse click and you have the option to read or write to a .csv file

From there you can also choose to import from sample comment which will provide you all the default special register/Relay comments 

 

 

[Ron_S 61]

Oh, I like that method. Far simpler!

And I like that I can rename them so I know where the comments are from.

 

Did a test using your instructions Gambit and it of course worked perfectly

 

Thank you - up and onwards lads :)

[Ron_S 61]

Sorry in advance, I am likely to ask a few questions over the next few days as I get to grips with GX2

I take it, I can't open old GX Dev programs with it? Or can I?

I tried to start a new program with an A series plc and even though it was listed it told me to open GX Dev to program an A series.

Not only that, it said it couldn't auto open GX Dev as my version of GX Dev didn't have that feature?

[Gambit 324]

No problem always happy to help

Of course you can project => open other data ....... But you have to convert an A series project to system Q first in GX Developer.
GX Works 2 doesn't support A series

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