Managing Projects

Projects are managed in the Configuration Editor. The Configuration Editor allows the following tasks to be performed:

Creating Projects
Opening Projects
Saving Projects
Closing Projects
Cloning Projects
Printing Projects
Defining a Project Header

Creating Projects

You can create projects in the Configuration Editor either by automatically detecting an existing hardware configuration or manually defining a project configuration. When you choose to automatically detect an existing hardware configuration, the Configuration Editor switches to on-line mode and detects all nodes connected to the PC running the SYPT Workbench.

Note:

Some target drives and options, e.g. fieldbus options not supporting DPL programming or cyclic data do not appear in a project configuration.

To automatically detect an existing hardware configuration

Do one of the following:

From the SYPT Workbench startup dialog, select the Go online and detect drives option, define the communication properties, i.e. choose a network/ protocol and any necessary settings such as baud rate for the project and click OK. The Configuration Editor switches to on-line mode and automatically detects all connected nodes.
From the Run menu, choose On Line. The Configuration Editor switches to on-line mode and automatically detects the network and all connected nodes.

Add any detected nodes into the project. To develop DPL programs for nodes, switch the project to off-line mode.

To manually define a new project configuration

Do one of the following:

From the SYPT Workbench startup dialog, select the Start New Project option. Choose a network on which the PC will eventually communicate to the drives and press OK.
From the File menu, choose New Project. The New Project dialog is displayed as shown below. Choose a network on which the PC will eventually communicate to the drives. If a CTNet network is being specified ensure the Network ID field has a correct value (see Networks for more information). By pressing the Settings button the communications settings can be set, e.g. the baud rate or COM port for serial protocols can be selected.

A new project is created and its Hardware Architecture view is displayed showing a PC connected to the specified network. The new project does not contain any drives.

See Inserting Nodes for details of how to add nodes into the project.

Opening Projects

Projects can be be opened from the startup dialog or from the Configuration Editor. SYPT project files have the extension .CFG.

To open a project when starting SYPT, see

Starting SYPT

To open a project within the Configuration Editor

Do one of the following:

From the File menu, choose Open Project.
TypeCtrl+O.
On the toolbar, press

A standard Windows File Open dialog will be displayed allowing a SYPT project/ configuration file to be opened.

Note:

If a SYPT V1.X project is opened in SYPT, the project will be upgraded into the SYPT 2 format. It will no longer be possible to reopen the project in SYPT 1. SYPT 2 warns the user prior to changing the project format. A backup of the project is also created in file SYPT1BAK.ZIP in the project folder. The SYPT 1 project can be restored using WinZip if required.