Echelon SmartServer 2.2 - Manual (Page 463)

464 Using Type Translators
To open the Type Translator functional block application from an existing Type Translator functional
block, follow these steps:
1. Click General if the SmartServer is not already operating in General mode. If the SmartServer is
in Driver mode when you click the functional block, the Setup - LON Functional Block Driver
Web page opens instead of the Type Translator functional block application.
2. Click the Type Translator functional block representing the Type Translator functional block to be
opened. The Type Translator: Configure Web page opens in the application frame to the right.
Selecting Input and Output Points
You can select the input and output points to be used in the translation. To select a data point, follow
these steps:
1. Click the Input data point icon ( ) on the left side of the Type Translator:
Configure Web page.
2. The Type Translator: Data Points Web page opens. Click the data points to be used by the Type
Translator from the SmartServer tree. References to the selected data points ( ) are added to the
bottom of the Type Translator functional block tree, and references to the Type Translator
functional block are added directly below the selected data points (
). By default, only input
data points will be shown. To show the output data points, select the Show Outputs check box.
To select a data point of an external device that is being managed with OpenLNS CT, OpenLNS
tree, or another OpenLNS application, you must first copy the data point from the OpenLNS tree
to the SmartServer tree (see Adding Data Points to SmartServer Applications in Chapter 4 for
more information).
3. Under the Direction column, select whether the data point is an input or output point. When you
select Output, the data point is added to the list of output points. You can access the list of output
points by clicking the Output data point icon (
) on the right side of the Type
Translator: Configure Web page.
Note: If you have selected a pre-defined type translation prior to selecting the data points in the
translation, an additional Nickname column appears in this Web page. The nickname is a