I have seen several courses being offered that teaches you to use the advanced diagnostic function in RS Logix. Can any one tell me how to use this function instead of attending a multi-day course? The NTT course book is offered for sale alone does it cover the Diagnostic Function? Any other sources that anyone knows of will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance. Circuit_Jock

basically the "Advanced Diagnostics" feature is a simple search engine that searches on (among other things) the "Page Titles" that you can enter for the rungs in your RSLogix program ...

the best way to learn about this is to just experiment ... this should get you started:

take a spare copy of a program and make sure that at least four or five of the ladder files have names ... (hint: right-click on the ladder file and select "Rename" from the popup menu) ... then go into some of these ladders and put some "Titles" on several of the rungs .... (hint: right-click the rung number and select "Edit Title" from the popup menu) ... skip a few rungs between titles ... then go to "Search ... Advanced Diagnostics" on the RSLogix main menu ... you should see the names of the ladder files listed ... leave "All" selected (for now) and click the "Expand" button ... you should see a list of the titles that you've entered ... watch the ladder display in the background while you click on a title ... watch the ladder display in the background while you click on the "Expand" button again ... you should see a list of the rung outputs within that "Titled" section of the program ... watch the ladder display in the background while you click on one of the outputs ...

so the basic idea is that you can use "Titles" to separate your program into sections ... these sections should ideally be made up of a collection of rungs that have related functions ... sort of like chapters and paragraphs in a book ... the "Advanced Diagnostics" feature allows a convenient way for you to search through these "chapter and paragraph" sections to quickly find your way to an output which is malfunctioning in the field ...



the downside is that the software considers these to be "PAGE titles" ... so don't get carried away with them or you'll regret it if you ever have to print out a paper copy of your program ... basic idea: if you have 2,000 rungs - with 2,000 titles - then you'll have 2,000 pieces of paper ... one "PAGE" for each "TITLE" ...



final thought ... the "Advanced Diagnostic" feature is handy - but it requires that SOMEBODY do the grunt-work of typing in meaningful titles ... that particular function is usually way down on the list of priorities for most programmers ... I'm just guessing but maybe these courses that you're talking about are dedicated to showing programmers how to provide these meaningful titles ... how to actually make use of the "Advanced Diagnostic" feature usually only takes about five minutes of demonstration for most technicians ... (assuming of course that they already know how to interpret the ladder logic that they're viewing on the screen) ...

and welcome to the forum ...