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Rockwell Automation Logix5000 Controllers I/O and Tag Data Programming Manual User Manual

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Organize tags

Chapter 2

Item

Description

To expand a structure and display its members, click the + sign.

To collapse a structure and hide its members, click the – sign.

Six elements of timer_presets.

This two-dimensional array contains nine elements (three by three array).

This one-dimensional array contains six elements of the DINT data type. In this example, a single timer
instruction times the duration of several steps. Each step requires a different preset value. Because all the

values are the same data type (DINTs), use an array.

The following example compares a structure to an array.

This is a tag that uses the Timer structure (data type).

This is a tag that uses an array of the Timer data type.

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