Manage data structures efficiently

Structures are useful for organizing values of similar objects and thus ease design. In many controllers, the data is already available in structured form, as in the CODESYS Cloud Adapter or browsable protocols such as OPC-UA.

Structured symbol names

The structure elements are merged into the symbol name and separated by dots. Thus, the structure Application ➔ Machine A ➔ Temperature becomes the symbol name Application.Machine A.Temperature.

For unstructured protocols, like Modbus, EtherNet/IP or Siemens TCP, structures can be created by defining the symbol name according to this system.

This configuration leads to an organization of the symbols into connection name ➔ machine ➔ machine value:

Structures in AnyViz

By organizing tags into folders, these structures can be maintained. The Creation assistant allows you to duplicate structure instances.