Rockwell Automation 1783-EMS08T Stratix 6000 Ethernet Managed Switch User Manual - Manual (Page 36)

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Chapter 2 Network Services Setup
EMS_EMAIL. Create a second controller-scoped tag of this new data type to
contain the transmission status named EmailDstStr.
Both of these tags are of the type EmailString.
Use these steps to send an email via a Logix controller-initiated message
instruction.
1. Open the Logix Designer application.
2. From the Controller Organizer, expand Data Types and Strings.
3. Create an EmailString type and note the initial LEN field.
When you edit this tag, its length is inserted by the RSLogix editor.
When you send email with MSG instructions, the length of the LEN field
must be added to the string length, as shown in the program example.
4. Open tags and click the Edit tab.
5. Insert EMS_EMAIL and EmailDstStr.
EMS_Email