Creating data points

You can create data points with the ASCII Manager in one of two ways. Either, a data point is automatically generated if it does not exist as yet and if an attribute for an element of this data point is set or you can create data points using the keyword DpName. With this method, the ASCII Manager attempts to create a data point with the specified ID provided it exists. If it has already been assigned, the next available ID is selected and a message is displayed. This method is used mainly to update projects.

How to delete data point using the ASCII manager, see chapter Project engineering -> Mass configuration -> Templates.

Example

If you input this ASCII file, the data points Station_1 and Station_2 with IDs 4 and 5 are created.