Hello, I am usining an unified panel and I want to create an iofield which lets the user set seconds but representing them as an integer, not with the date selection interface.
I am having trouble to do this with Time data type just as we did with old panels, in the past you could “map” the Time data type as a DInt and scale it however you wanted(1000 to 1 in the case of seconds).

Setting the output format to “{I}” does show the time in us(I think), but I cannot scale it down with “Linear scaling” as 100M to 100. (I can on engineering, but panel wont display it and it shows the warning sign)

Of course I could create an Int variable and just scale it up or down inside the PLC, but I'd like to do it “properly”.

 I've used DInt internal tag for test purposes since I couldn't use time type without simulating a plc.
On the left the tag is shown in integer output format.

on the right it is shown in time format, or rather, duration.

Formatter prefix P is for duration. What comes after comma determines what is being shown. You can use h to show hours, m to show minutes or s to show seconds. For miliseconds you can use S (uppercase).  

[Attached is] how it looks during the runtime.

Agustin Ordoñez

Hello, I am usining an unified panel and I want to create an iofield which lets the user set seconds but representing them as an integer, not with the date selection interface.
I am having trouble to do this with Time data type just as we did with old panels, in the past you could “map” the Time data type as a DInt and scale it however you wanted(1000 to 1 in the case of seconds).

Setting the output format to “{I}” does show the time in us(I think), but I cannot scale it down with “Linear scaling” as 100M to 100. (I can on engineering, but panel wont display it and it shows the warning sign)

Of course I could create an Int variable and just scale it up or down inside the PLC, but I'd like to do it “properly”.

Hello, thanks for your reply.
Using {P,s} as a format does show the data correctly, but when I try to edit it I get the full time UI such as the left IO field in your video. I'd like to input the data in seconds directly as a number. Also with this Duration format how could I fill the display with leading zeros?

 For your first request, to set the time value as number you need to use scripts. Time data type is a subtype of dint and DInt#1 equals to t#1ms. 

Add script dynamization to IO Field's process value and use the following script:

And add another script for the process value changed event with following script:

When your tag changes it'll trigger the dynamization and show the 1/1000th of the tag value. When you change the IO field value it'll trigger the process value propertyChanged event and write 1000 times the value to the tag. The only downside to this is that the dynamization script and propertyChanged event script will trigger each other and run twice.

Alternatively you could use the input finished event of the IO Field instead of the ProcessValueChanged event. This way the dynamization and the event script will not trigger each other and run only once. 

Here's a video demo.

Agustin Ordoñez

Hello, thanks for your reply.
Using {P,s} as a format does show the data correctly, but when I try to edit it I get the full time UI such as the left IO field in your video. I'd like to input the data in seconds directly as a number. Also with this Duration format how could I fill the display with leading zeros?