ION 7500 / ION 7600 User’s Guide

Customizing Frameworks in Designer

 

 

Each ION module available to a meter appears in the toolbox.

Creating New Modules

To add a module, locate its icon in the Designer toolbox, press and hold the left mouse button over the icon, and drag it onto the node diagram. Once you release the mouse button, the module becomes part of the diagram and is ready to be configured and linked.

Choosing the Module

The Designer toolbox displays icons for all the meter’s available module types. If the toolbox is not displayed, choose Show Toolbox from the Options menu.

As you drag the mouse over the icons in the toolbox, the status bar at the bottom of the Designer window displays the module type.

Creating the Module

Follow these steps to create an ION module in the meter:

1.On the ION Modules toolbox, press the mouse button down on top of the icon of the module you want to create, and drag it onto the node diagram. As you drag the icon, the cursor changes shape to indicate you are placing an object.

2.Release the mouse button to place the module in the diagram. When you release the mouse button, Designer places a pending module icon into the diagram (pending modules appear with a dashed outline).

3.Once you have configured the node to your liking, choose Send & Save from the File menu to download the configuration to the node. The dashed outline is replaced with a solid outline, indicating that your changes have been saved.

After a Send & Save, ION modules that are offline (or inactive) appear with a red border. This can mean that the ION module’s setup is incomplete. Refer to the online ION Enterprise Help for more details.

The web site has information about the setup register defaults a module has when it is initially created, as well as the ranges or options each setup register supports.

Deleting Modules

To delete a module, select it by clicking its icon, then press the Delete key. Use caution when deleting modules – any dependant modules will be affected. Designer informs you of dependant modules if they exist on the same node.

Linking Modules

Module linking involves clicking on one module’s output register symbol, choosing the output register you want to link, then clicking the input of a second module and selecting the input to link to. This operation can be performed in reverse – you can start with one module’s input and link to another module’s output register if desired.

You can link modules that reside on different nodes, provided that you are linking between software nodes, or from meter to software node. You cannot link modules between meters. The following section describes how to link modules that reside on the same node. The online ION Programmer’s Reference or the online ION Enterprise Help have instructions on linking modules that reside on different nodes.

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