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NB Designer / Screen Best Method for IO Screens

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Hello

I am trying to create some IO Screens in NB Designer.

Anyone worked with it?  What is the best way.

Lets say I want to display 16 bits of a IO card.   I created 16 Bit Lamps.  Beside those bit lamps I want to put text like "Station X - Jaw Cyl Home  ..."

Is there a fast / easy way to do it?  Because I am dealing with hundreds of IO, and not want to click on each box to enter it.

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How do you expect it to know the text for each one?  You're going to have to manually edit the text.

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Hi Crossbow,

In CX-Designer, I used "Use String Table"  and then just entered all the IO for the whole line in Excel in CXV/ imported it .

Also, CX-Designer allows u to use "Indirect Reference of String" where you can choose a file with 8 lines of Text and then on IO screen just specify the line #

I was hoping there was some similar way to enter all the text in Excel and import it in NB Designer.   

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I also tried the "Text Library" function, where you can enter a Name and then States

for example

IO Card 0

State 0 Message -  Cyl A Home

State 1 Message - Cyl A Work

But when I choose "Text Library - IO Card 0"   in the Text,  it only shows State 0 Message (Cyl A Home).   

 

It would be nice to pick and choose which state, so that way I can enter all the text in the text library and just pick the message.

 

All I am trying to avoid here is to click and enter a message on every IO point.   Excel makes it much easier to deal with lots of text and messages.

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Unfortunately I know nothing about NB, never touched one.  It's not as powerful as NS, that I do know from talking to users.

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