Rockwell Automation 9301 Series RSView32 Users Guide - Manual (Page 589)

Sharing data with other Windows applications
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To request data from RSView32, a third-party OPC client application
on the same computer must use this information:
Server: RSI.RSView32OPCTagServer
Type: Local
Server Since the client and server are on the same computer,
Computer this field is inaccessible.
Name or
Address:
Access Path: Project name. You can leave this blank.
If you specify a name, use the name of the open
project.
Update Rate: A rate in seconds.
Address: Name or address of the tag in the server. (You
specify the address when you assign the OPC node
to a tag in the Tag editor.)
Each OPC client application uses different delimiters to separate these
fields; use the delimiters that are appropriate to your application. For
an example of how to set up an RSView32 station as an OPC client,
see “Using OPC for peer–to–peer network communications” on
page 17-5.
Setting up a local DDE client application
To request data from RSView32 a DDE client application on the same
computer must use this information:
Application: RTData
Topic: Project name
Item: Tag name