1.7.2.3. Device info

In this section some general information and descriptions of the PLC can be specified.

Example:

<DeviceInfo>
    <Name name="local:typename">CODESYS Control for Win32</Name>
    <Description name="local:typedescription">A CODESYS V3 Soft PLC for Win32</Description>
    <Vendor name="local:3S">CODESYS GmbH</Vendor>
    <OrderNumber>xxx</OrderNumber>
</DeviceInfo>

XML-Tag	Description
Name	Name of the device that appears in the Properties dialog for the device in CODESYS
Description	Description of the device; this is also displayed in the Properties dialog
Vendor	Manufacturer name
OrderNumber	Product number under which the device can be ordered from the manufacturer

Note

For complete documentation on the particular device description elements see the xsd schema provided by device_description_schema.

These values are only used for display in the device tree.

During online scanning of devices the device name and the manufacturer’s name are displayed. The values are read online from the runtime system. In the runtime system the values can be set through the defines in targetdefines.h:

#define SYSTARGET_VENDOR_NAME       "My company"
#define SYSTARGET_DEVICE_NAME       "My device"