[0.9.0] - 2022-09-01 - Manual - Tracing - Visualize live and historical trace data with SIMATIC AX - Tracing,extension

Tracing Extension

Portfolio
SIMATIC AX
Product
Tracing
Software version
1.2.2
Edition
12/2024
Language
English (original)
Package Name
@ax-vscode/siemens.tracing-vscode
  • (New Feature) Trace Explorer

    • New sidebar panel available for Trace in the desktop and web versions of AX Code
    • Centralized location for tracing operations on PLCs and interactions with Trace configurations and results files
    • Only maintain active connections to PLCs that are "Pinned" in the new view
    • Pinned PLCs are available through Local Connection Configuration (local) or a user's agents (web)
      • Install, uninstall, enable, or disable Trace jobs directly on any pinned PLC.
      • Additional data format support in graphs (CSV, TSV)
    • Easily view available saved Trace results and Trace configurations that are present in the user's workspace.
      • The results list will contain any CSV or TSV file in the workspace
      • The configurations list is curated based on a common header for all Trace configuration files (creating a configuration through the extension will automatically include this header but it can also be added to existing Trace configurations)
  • (New Feature) Support command palette options for each trace command

    • In desktop IDE, also support for sending a command to a manually configured PLC that is not pinned
  • (Changed) Trace Results Viewer

    • Simplified viewer to improve performance
    • Implemented stream statistics on the right side of the viewer
    • Add ability to pause updating of the stream (only pauses update of graph, data is still being obtained in the background; resuming will jump to the latest data)
  • (Removed)

    • Visual trace configuration editor has been deprecated.
    • The use of compound extensions (.tracecfg.yml,.tracerec.json) has been deprecated.