control lots of inputs/outputs in linked to DB

Hello

As a modest beginner i can not get my head around this;

i need to control 120 machines; 1 output to turn them on/off, 1 input for faulthandling.

How can i link each machine to its wired In- and outputs?

For now i created an UDT_Machines with an id, status, run and error...

Created an DB with array[1...120] of UDT_Machines

When i want to turn them all on i do :

I could white a function where i physicaly  set each in and out depending on the ID (if id=... then %Q0... := TRUE) but it seems overkill

there must be a smoother way? Would love to learn!

Thanks

Hi Stefan

Indeed this would take a lot off effort to type and would look like amateur coding :)

Thanks for the answer. i saw POKE_BOOL passing by but my knowledge needs improving. still will dig in to it.

Just saw this post on the forum that uses an array of ouputs in the tag table, will give this a try as well

Define array on Q

Here they suggest making an array in the tags (in my case of bool) with start adress Q0.0

In my logic i could move the On/Off bit from the machinesDB to an "passtrough array" of bool 

after the logic loop is finished i move the "passtrough array" to the "tagtable array"

Any thoughts?

Thank you!

Solved and working.

Created an UDT "OutputArray" that holds a tag "Outputs as array[1..120] of bool"

Then in the PLC tags, defined an output 'MachineOutputs' with the Data type "OutputArray" startadress being Q0.0

In code we can just loop al the indexes needed and set them True or False