A tool for generating IO Lists using RSLogix 5000 L5X export files.
This is a simple WPF windows application that allows you to process an L5X project file and generate an IO list as a CSV output. IO lists are helpful for tracking and documenting a given PLC project's IO configuration. These are typically used in a controls FAT or commissioning to track the IO that has been loop tested with field devices.
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To install the application on a windows machine, download the Setup.exe or Setup.msi from the current latest releases here. Once installed, the app will check back here for new releases and give you the abaility to update as desired.
The application is very simple as of now. The high level steps are as follows:
- Launch the application and click the NewList button.
- You can also just drag a drop an L5X file which will automatically advance you to the next step with prefilled fields.
- On the entry page, specify the following information
- L5X file to process.
- File name of the list to be generated.
- File location of the list to be generated.
- Click Generate to start the process of extracting the IO list from the L5X.
- Once complete, click Open In Explorer to open the directory in which the csv was generated.
Version 0.2.0 of the application adds a configuration interface that allows you to control what the output looks like. The following sections explain how the application can be configured. To open the configuration interface, click the cog icon in the bottom left of the application.
On the Columns tab you can configure which columns get output, change the names of any
pre-existing or new column, and add new meta data columns that you want output by default.
This saves you the step of manually performing this task each time you generate a new list.
To edit the name of a default or custom column, click the edit icon on the row that you want to change. You will see the following interface that will allow you to change the name or the column.
To disable or prevent the column from being written to the output CSV file, click the toggle button on any column to disable it like shown here.
To add a new column, click the plus action icon button on the top right. This will launch the an interface that allows you to specify the name of the column.
To delete a custom column, click the trash icon on the column to remove it from the list.
The Filters tab allows you to configure how the application will filter IO tags prior to
writing the CSV output.
First, you can specify whether or not to filter unused tags, which will remove tag that are not used within the logic of the project from the output list.
Second, you can specify custom filters that allow you to further specify which tags to remove from the list. The following sections explain how to configure custom filters.
To add a custom filter, click the plus action icon button on the top right. This will launch the tag filter popup which allows you to select a property, condition, and value for which to filter the IO tags. Below is an example of the interface for adding and editing the custom tag filter.
