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Created by: Kev at: 4/12/2012 5:03 PM (6 Replies)

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4/12/2012 5:03 PM	Rate (0)
Kev Advanced Member Joined: 6/29/2006 Last visit: 11/28/2023 Posts: 53 Rating: (1)	Does anyone know of an easy way to cross reference timers? This is so annoying that I'm guessing I am doing something stupid or missing something obvious. If you're looking at a program block and select a Marker/Flag you can navigate by cross references in the inspector window but I can't appear to do this with Timers in the same way. Often I will find the contact of a timer ?????.Q but this contacthas a ".Q" and therefore only ?????.Qs can be found in the cross reference however I would like to find the coil or Vice versa from the coil locate the contacts of it. Any other method of finding them would also be welcome.
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4/14/2012 4:50 PM	Rate (0)
jklm Platinum Member Joined: 12/22/2006 Last visit: 1/25/2022 Posts: 1742 Rating: (306)	Hello, Just a small work around. If you copy the output of the timer to a temporary variable in the segment where you program the timer, you could have an indirect cross reference to that place . Look at the file in annex. Attachment myT1.JPG (298 Downloads)
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4/18/2012 1:42 PM	Rate (0)
Kev Advanced Member Joined: 6/29/2006 Last visit: 11/28/2023 Posts: 53 Rating: (1)	and thank youjklm, that is a good work around and will give me back my ability to cross reference. to Siemens, that we should have to use a work around for something so basic. I restrained from asking for a long time believing I must be overlooking something.
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4/18/2012 4:38 PM	Rate (0)
0_Einstein Diamond Expert Joined: 7/7/2010 Last visit: 12/7/2023 Posts: 13989 Rating: (2282)	Agree completely on the sad face for Siemens. I recall back in 1992 when I could search a PLC program ONLINE for the all or the next occurrence of any of the following (OFFLINE, you could search with even more precision): instruction type (timer, NO, NC, + or - edge trigger, MOVE, etc.) tag name find coil(s) for this contact network # (as in, goto network 9) and so many other ways of searching....! and it would also go backwards in the search as well as forward. I miss the old days and easy ways to locate things. Thanks for the simple "work-around".
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4/18/2012 7:33 PM	Rate (0)
Gabriel de Oliveira Bronze Member Joined: 2/16/2011 Last visit: 7/21/2023 Posts: 229 Rating: (27)	I DO Agree too. Regards
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9/25/2012 6:17 PM	Rate (0)
Wulfgar Posts: 42 Rating: (3)	I agree, Siemens needs to fix this bug. I just found where I had the same timer used in 2 places. Without a way to cross-reference timers it makes it very difficult to track down problems. I add a TimerQ coil at the timer Q output to use since the Timer.Q bit does not cross-reference back to the timer. It's the little things like this that make the difference when debugging a system.
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9/25/2012 7:35 PM	Rate (0)
0_Einstein Diamond Expert Joined: 7/7/2010 Last visit: 12/7/2023 Posts: 13989 Rating: (2282)	Wulfgar I agree, Siemens needs to fix this bug. I just found where I had the same timer used in 2 places. Without a way to cross-reference timers it makes it very difficult to track down problems. I add a TimerQ coil at the timer Q output to use since the Timer.Q bit does not cross-reference back to the timer. It's the little things like this that make the difference when debugging a system. Name your timer DBs something besides Timer. Main_ControlPower_Timer Debounce_Delay_Timer It makes it nice to have descriptive names for debugging and troubleshooting.
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