Procedure - Manual - SIMATIC S7 Connector - Industrial Edge - Industrial Edge App

To browse the data points, follow these steps:

1. Launch the SIMATIC S7 Connector application.
   The Configurator home page is displayed.
2. Click under the Actions column of the data source of which you want to browse the data points.
   The Browse dialog box is displayed as follows:
   
   It displays the valid tags in success section and duplicate tags and existing tags already loaded in the configurator in warning section.

3. Click OK.
   The Browsed Tags dialog box is displayed as follows:
   
   You can use Datablock and tag filters to filter the required tags. A datablock is an array of tags. The Datablock Filter drop-down field lists all the datablocks available in the PLC. You can use the Datablock Filter drop-down to select the required datablocks. Once you select the datablocks and click , the tags that are present in the selected datablocks are displayed. In addition, you can use Tag Filter field to further filter the tags. Tag browse filter string is case insensitive.
   

   NOTE

   For PLC FW 2.9 and greater, TLS security is enabled in the PLC. Hence when browsing these PLCs, you are prompted with the Trust Certificate dialogue displaying the details of the certificate as shown below:

   
   

   NOTE

   • If you choose to trust the certificate, browsing continues to fetch the tags from the PLC.
   • If you choose not to trust the certificate, then browsing action ends.
   • Only Optimized S7-Protocol (S7-1200/1500) supports Datablock Filter and Tag Filter fields.
   • Browsing data is cached for already browsed Optimized S7-Protocol (S7-1200/1500) connection. But only the last browsed data depending on filters is cached.
   • You can use in Name column to align the tag name. By default, the tag name is left aligned.
   • The duplicate tags are displayed in the red box. You can edit the tag name using .

4. Specify the acquisition cycle, acquisition mode, and access mode using Acquisition Cycle, Acquisition Mode, and Access Mode drop-down respectively.

5. Mark true against the tags that you want to add and click Add Tags.
   The tags are added below the data source.
6. You can configure Arrays as individual tags by enabling the switch button under browse window.