Working with Macros
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Logic Editor
Macro Display
Overview
The Macro Overview display appears in the Logic Editor when you move the cursor
onto an inserted macro. It also appears just after inserting a macro into a project.
This display gives the macro’s file name, description (the "Detailed Project Name"
as entered from the project properties), status, and a list of its parameters and the
Modicon addresses or symbols to which they are mapped.
The macro status can be one of two things:
Macro has changed: The macro has been changed since it was inserted into th e
main logic network. You may want to update the inserted macro to reflect the
changes made to the macro project it is linked to.
Macro not found: The macro project file either no longer exist s or has been
moved to a different directory.
Making Changes
in Macros If you make changes to a macro project after it has been inserted into a main logic
network, you’ll have to update each copy of it within that logic network.
There may also be times when you want to make changes in logic to a single macro
insertion without changing the original macro project. In this case, you’ll have to
unlink that macro insertion. Unlinking a macro removes its con nection to t he original
macro project; the logic in that macro insertion becomes part of the regular main
project logic.
Once a macro insertion has been unlinked it cannot be re-link ed. C hang es m ade to
the macro project will no longer be detected by the Logic Editor.
Updating a
Macro in a
Project
In the logic editor:
Step Action
1 Move the cursor onto a macro that needs to be updated. The Macro Overview
screen appears, with a status that reads "Macro Has Changed." (If the macro
status reads "Rec: xxx", where "xxx" is a series of numbers, then you don’t need
to update it.)
2 From the network navigation panel right-click menu, select Update Macro. The
macro’s logic is reinserted into the logic network.