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

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Chapter 2

Organize tags

1. In the Properties pane, click the box next to External Access, and

select an attribute.

2. To display the value of the member in a different style (radix), click the

box next to Style, and select the style.

9. Click Apply.

10. Repeat this procedure to add as many members as needed.

Add extended properties to a user-defined data type

You can add Min, Max, Engineering Units, State 0, and State 1 properties to a

data type or its member. When you add these properties, other Rockwell

Automation HMIs can use their values.

You can add and change these extended properties in the Data Type Editor

Properties pane.

1. In the Controller Organizer, expand Data Types, then expand User-

Defined, then right-click the user-defined data type and then click
Properties.

2. In the Data Type Editor, do one of the following:

• Click in the data type Name box to choose the data type.
• Click in the data type member Name box to choose the data type

member.

3. If the Properties pane is not visible, click Properties.

4. Click Extended Properties.

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