Building application for several PLCs, but no loading onto PLCs

Use the command Build Application in the Resource Manager view, if you want to create the application for several →PLCs that are not available (as they might be offline, for example). Because of this command, you know whether the necessary binary files can be built successfully for the PLCs although they are not executed on the PLCs.

Conditions for Build Application:

• You have already assigned a program within the PLC-object (see "Assigning program type within PLC-object"). (This is given, after you have created a project and you are using the existing →resources.)

• You have configured the PLC within the PLC-object.

• The objects with the application must contain correct ST-code, FBD-logic or ladder diagrams.
  See "Highlighting the errors and warnings in the ST-editor", "Highlighting the errors and warnings in the FBD-editor" or "Highlighting the errors and warnings in the LD-editor".

• External variables must reference global variables correctly (name and type must match). Details: see "Declaration of external variables in ST".

• The PLC-object with the configured PLC must contain correct definitions (see under "Errors while editing PLC-object in editor" for the correct syntax within the editor for a PLC-object).

How to have the binary files created for which your application in ST. application in FBD and/or application in LD is the base and that are necessary for the execution on the PLCs:

1. In the Resource Manager view : Select one or several PLCs (= appertaining IEC-resource with icon ).
   Select one PLC by clicking onto it. Select several PLCs by pressing and holding the Shift-key or the Ctrl-key while clicking onto the next PLC. Or press Ctrl+A in order to select all PLCs within the resource manager.

2. Click (Build Application) in order to create the programs assigned in the PLC-objects. Mind that the applications are not loaded for execution onto the PLCs.
   Result: The Build Log view informs you whether the application has been built successfully or not. If the applications have been built successfully, f ingerprints are displayed within the column ID (Generated) for the applications.