４ - ３ Supported Devices and Applicable Variable Import Methods There are the following three methods to import variable information of the External Device. Applicable methods and restrictions depend on the type of External Device. The import methods for each External Device are as follows. Note 1) The following table shows whether “ Importing and updating variables directly from device” is supported by each variable. Note 2) A building error occurs if a data type that you entered is not within the “ IntelliSense ” scope. For this reason, you cannot neither define structures nor enter the external device variables in the “Data Type” Field.
Note 3) For the CJ-FINS, AT (address) must be entered. For information on how to enter AT (address), refer to the “Address/Value” Field of the CX- Programmer variable table. Note 4) CJ system-defined variables don’t have the “Publish” setting. Also, the user can not add this setting to the variables. For this reason, the CJ system-defined variables cannot be imported by any variable import method. Additional Information When importing the NJ/NX variables, the user-defined variables and the system-defined variables are imported together. The CJ-CIP system-defined variables cannot be imported since this variable cannot be set as network variable.
４ - ４ Import Information of External Device Variable Table To import the external device variable and the physical address information and use them in the NA, you must define the data type regardless of the import method.
15 Method Importing and updating Direct entry (note 2) Copy and paste( note 2) variables directly from Device type device (note 1) NJ/NX Supported Supported Supported CJ-CIP Supported Supported Supported CJ-FINS Not supported Supported (note 3) Supported (note 3) Variable System-defined User-defined variables variables Not published Publish Only Input Output Device type NJ/NX Supported Not supported Supported Supported Supported CJ-CIP Not supported (note 4) Not supported Supported Supported Supported