Basic settings

Module Type (information only)

Indicates the type of the current module.

Locked

You can lock a module to avoid unintentional or unauthorized changing of the module settings.

Enabled

Enable the module to record signals.

Name

You can enter a name for the module here.

Comment

You can enter a comment or description of the module here. This will be displayed as a tooltip in the signal tree.

Module No.

This internal reference number of the module determines the order of the modules in the signal tree of ibaPDA client and ibaAnalyzer.

Timebase

All signals of the module are sampled on this timebase.

Use module name as prefix

This option puts the module name in front of the signal names.

Text encoding

You can select the type of text encoding or the code page here for a correct interpretation and display of the received text data for inputs as well as of the text data to be sent for outputs. Available for selection are, beside system locale according to the Windows system settings (default) and UTF-8 Unicode, all other encodings.
Source

Update time

Set the update time here in whichibaPDA is to search for and load the specified file in the specified directory.

Default: 1000 ms

Use terminator

If you disable this option (false), then the entire text in the file is used.

If you enable this option, then another line appears for specifying the termination character.

This is the agreed termination character for the text, which is expected by ibaPDA and which should be used by the transmitting system. The terminator could be any ASCII-character, e.g., Carriage Return or another decimal coded character. You can alter the terminator according to your needs. The default value is 13 (‘carriage return”).

File path

Enter a valid path and the full file name of the file containing the text in this field. If ibaPDA finds the relevant file, it will be immediately read. The file content is interpreted as a source text.

Wildcards are supported in file name. This allows you to use, e.g., a combination of prefix and dynamic part in the file name.

Therefore, the source system generating the text files must ensure that a text file with the source text is copied in time into the specified path whenever a new text should be available for ibaPDA.

User name, password

When the file path is located on a network drive, enter the login information here for the access right to the drive.

File mode

By selecting the file mode, you specify how to proceed with the file after it has been acquired and read.

  • Delete fileThe file is read and deleted immediately. If the same text is to be processed again or another text is to be processed, a new file must be provided again. This setting is suitable if it has been ensured that a file with the correct text will always be available at the right time.

  • Keep fileThe file is read and not deleted. The file is read again if its modification date changes. Thus, you can transmit new texts to ibaPDA by overwriting the file. This setting is suitable if it is possible or likely that there is not always an up-to-date file and the old text is the "lesser evil" compared to an empty text.
Module layout and processing

See the text splitter module. Module settings