ProSoft Technology ProSoft i-View - Manual (Page 16)

Data Source Files ProSoft i-View ♦ Mobile Process Monitoring and Control Application
User Manual Version 2.0.2
Page 16 of 106 ProSoft Technology, Inc.
September 29, 2011
Note: CSV file format is not identical for all language localizations due to different
use of delimiters. ProSoft i-View accepts any csv files in any of the supported
languages, but unfortunately this is not the case for MS Excel. Consequently,
Excel may not correctly open the provided examples in the wrong language.
An Excel spreadsheet with variable specifications has four (4) columns, and one row per
variable.
ProSoft i-View looks for the following information in each column.
Column A : variable name
Column B : data type
Column C : variable address
Column D : tag or global attributes including display and communication attributes
3.1.1 Specification of Variable Names (Column A)
Tag names are entered in column A, they must begin with a letter and should not contain
spaces or special characters. For Register or Memory Area based protocols, tag names
are only informative or for documentation purposes. Variables can hold numeric values,
strings or arrays.
For EIP/Native, variable names are symbolic names that are actually sent to remote
devices for communications. In this case, any valid reference to a scalar type (see
Variable Types (page 18)), including members of structures or array elements, is allowed.