PROFINET IO data records - Manual - PROFINET Driver

PROFINET Driver Engineering Interface

Portfolio
PROFINET Development Kits
Product
PROFINET Driver
Software version
v3.1.0
Edition
03/2024
Language
en-US (original)

PROFINET IO data records in XML elements

PROFINET data records are placed in XML elements of type Variable. The value of the XML attribute Name is either DataRecordsConf or NetworkParamConfig.

Each record is placed in the XML element Field. The XML attribute Key contains the record index and the attribute Length contains the record length.

The following is an example with one PROFINET IO data record. This record's index is decimal 12304 (0x3010) and it is 12 bytes long. Record data must be in hexadecimal notation.

Example with one PROFINET IO data record

<Variable Name="DataRecordsConf">
    <AID>11</AID>
    <Value Datatype="SparseArray" Valuetype="BLOB">
        <Field Key="12304" Length="12">301400080100000000000000</Field>
    </Value>
</Variable>