Lenze PLC Designer PLC Designer (R3-1) - Manual (Page 63)

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Concepts and Base Components
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3.3 Profiles and Plug-Ins
If you start "»PLC Designer« without Profile" from the Start menu, you first will be
asked to select a "profile". (Starting directly "»PLC Designer« V3.x" from the start menu
or via the desktop icon will automatically use the default profile).
A profile defines the set of currently available user interface components (plug-ins).
Each plug-in is defined by a name, a version and version constraints.
Besides the components provided by 3S - Smart Software Solutions GmbH also
customer-defined plug-ins might be integrated.
Examples for essential components are the 'Online Manager' or the 'Runtime System'.
Those must be part of the system anyway. Other components provided by 3S - Smart
Software Solutions GmbH as plug-ins, like various editors, code generators,
communication drivers etc., can be used optionally.
For the creation of plug-ins for customer specific components a toolkit is available
(Automation Platform Toolkit, see separate documentation).
To look at or to modify a profile the Installation and Profile Manager (IPM.exe) is
needed. It provides a dialog for installing plug-ins on your system and another dialog
for defining profiles basing on the installed plug-ins.
Profile configurations are stored in files with extension ".profile".
Regard the following:
• simultaneous installation of several versions is possible
• different versions of the runtime system and the programming system work
together
• every service employee has available all versions
• every project knows with which version it was created; when it gets opened with
another version, the user will be hinted at possible resp. required updates
concerning storage format version, library versions etc.
• individual functions can be added without having to update the whole version