Browsing Devices for Objects (online)

This is how you browse a device for objects

  1. Right-click on the device that should be browsed for objects.
  2. This opens the following context menu:
    Figure 1. Context menu of device example "AS01"
  3. Click on the "Browse Device" option.
  4. Wait while the device is being browsed.
  5. All found objects are listed in the table of the Engineering Explorer now. The number of read objects is shown on the right below the table.
  6. Select the objects from the table that are either to be created in WinCC OA or deleted from the corresponding device and right-click on one of the rows. The following context menu opens
  7. Click on the "Delete Object in Device" option to delete the selected objects from the device.
  8. Click on the "Create Objects in WinCC OA" option to create the selected objects in WinCC OA. After the new objects have been created, the faceplates of the objects highlighted in green (objects that already exist in WinCC OA) can be opened directly by a double-click on the specific object line.
  9. If an object from the table was not found in the device, but it still exists in the WinCC OA database, the following options are available in the context menu:
    Object exists

    This device/object already exists in the WinCC OA project.

    Object in Device

    This object/device currently only exists in the device/network. It can be created in WinCC OA.

    Object not in the Device

    Object/device exists in WinCC OA, but no longer exists in the device/network. It should therefore be deleted.