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  • Siemens TIA Portal – Using Project And Global Libraries

    Siemens TIA Portal – Using Project And Global Libraries

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    Number of lessons: 12

  • CODESYS PLC Course – Structured Programming With DUTs

    CODESYS PLC Course – Structured Programming With DUTs

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    Number of lessons: 29

  • Do & Grow – Siemens

    Do & Grow – Siemens

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In this lesson you learn about the Overview panel in TIA Portal, a hybrid view that sits between project view and portal view. Although it is often overlooked because it can be slow and slightly confusing, the overview can still be useful in certain situations. When nothing is selected in the project tree, the overview displays a full project level summary, including devices, networks, security settings, user management, and other project wide elements. One quirk highlighted in the lesson is that when the overview is open, Siemens hides some items, such as Devices and Networks, from the project tree, which can make navigation feel inconsistent.

The overview offers multiple display modes including thumbnails, list, and details. The details view becomes especially valuable when inspecting PLC blocks. It allows you to sort and check metadata like last modified time, assigned addresses, whether blocks are optimized, accessibility flags for HMI or OPC communication, memory usage, compile timestamps, and download options. This makes it a quick way to judge which blocks consume memory or need configuration changes.

From the overview you can open devices, groups, or individual blocks, but organization is limited compared to the project tree. Once you open an object, the project tree returns to its standard structure. The lesson notes that large projects may switch between views sluggishly, especially with animations enabled.

Overall, while the overview is not a primary workspace for most developers, it can be helpful when you need high level project information, quick sorting of block properties, or an alternative way to navigate complex structures.

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This highlights the value of distinguishing manual This highlights the value of distinguishing manual requests from automatic control. Both may drive the same outputs, but their intent is different.

By defining manual requests explicitly in the UDT, it becomes obvious where a command originated. This is invaluable during commissioning and troubleshooting.

This separation integrates cleanly with operation modes such as hand, off, and auto.

This is a small design choice that has a large impact on maintainability.

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