Chapter 17 Structure Tags and Comments in an Import/Export File
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Item Identifies
Scope The part of the project that owns the comment.
A program or equipment phase must be specified.
Routine Name of the routine.
Comment Text of the comment.
Owning Element For RCOMMENT entries, neutral text for the last instruction on the rung that owns the comment.
If there is no element on the rung, the Owning Element is a semi-colon (;).
By default, the Owning Element is used to match the comment to a rung on import.
For a TEXTBOX entry of an attached text box, neutral text identifies the element attached to the the text box. The
Owning Element contains the backing tag name and the full specifier of the element, including the absolute location
of the element.
Owning Element.
For a TEXTBOX entry of a free-floating text box, this entry is blank.
Location For RCOMMENT entries, the rung number of comment. The rung number in the Location column is used to match the
comment to a rung if the Owning Element is blank for that comment or if you override the import default by selecting
Match all RLL rung comments by rung number only.
For TEXTBOX entries, the absolute location of free-floating text boxes or the relative location from the owning element
of attached text boxes. For absolute locations, the location contains both the sheet number and the X and Y
coordinates of the text box. For relative locations, the location contains only the X and Y coordinates.
An RCOMMENT record follows this format.
RCOMMENT Structure with Commas
RCOMMENT,"Scope","Routine","Comment","Owning
Element","Location"
RCOMMENT Structure with Tabs
RCOMMENT "Scope" "Routine" "Comment" "Owning
Element" "Location"
A TESTBOX record follows this format.
TEXTBOX Structure with Commas
TEXBOX,"Scope","Routine","Comment","Owning
Element","Location"
TEXTBOX Structure with Tabs
TEXTBOX "Scope" "Routine" "Comment" "Owning
Element" "Location"
