GOT <-> Allen Bradley String read/write

[sante123]

Hi,

I'm looking for help with the string exchanging between GT25 and AB CompactLogix.

I'm reading recipe data from SQL via MES interface to the local devices such as GD3000. I want to move the string held in the registers GD3000-3009 (20 characters) to the string tag in the Allen Bradley. The problem is that in the scripting I cannot enter the AB Tag, because when I imported the CSV with the string tags their data type is STRING, and the scripting in GOT accepts only numerical datatypes such as WORD, etc.

Has anyone found a way to handle that?

[Gambit]

Can't you use the Device Data transfer function of the GOT? 

 

Edited September 24, 2021 by Gambit

[sante123]

GT Designer doesn't allow me to choose the imported tags with STRING data type, it' grayed out - probably because it accepts the Destination Device only if its data type matches the type selected in the Device Type field (STRING type is not available obviously).