Ignition to read Citect dbf file

[chaoliang]

I found the following solution works well.

1. Using pycharm or vscode to write and test the script.
2. using dbf module.
   dbf · PyPI
3. write and test script to read/write dbf module.
4. using python 3 to call the script from ignition, the script does not work if directly calling from ignition.
   https://support.inductiveautomation.com/hc/en-us/articles/360056397252-Python-In-Ignition

refer to the other post for a bit more details about the issue if using ignition directly to call the dbf module.

Issue with Read/Write DBF datafile using dbf module

Spent 2 days troubleshooting the issue and went down to the module details. I found the table write function is not working under ignition, but working using python 3.x. Not sure whether it's the issue with Jython2.7. Anyway, instead of troubleshooting it further, I went alternative way, to call the external python 3 to run the script instead. Issue resolved. Here's the link for calling python3 from ignition.