Good evening everyone, I hope all are well. Please treat me like a 5 year old as I am very new to Ignition. I am trying to import a CSV of a DNP map of one of our relays into Ignition. I have it formatted as a CSV but I get an error immediately saying it isn't formatted correctly. I tried looking through the manual for how CSV's need to be formatted for Ignition and I wasn't able to find anything specific. I know SEL products are a bit different from a typical AB PLC, so I don't know if this is simply a matter of the exported file isn't formatted for Ignition at all, and so I will need to recreate the file effectively with the correct formatting. I appreciate your responses and thank you in advance.
Why do you need to import anything at all?
Presumably you're using the DNP3 driver, which will allow you to browse via the OPC browser and drag/drop tags into the tag browser.
So, yes I am using the DNP driver. For lack of a better way of describing it, this is strictly for practice purposes. We are looking at changing platforms in the near future, and for multiple reasons Ignition is the lead contender. So I am playing around with the free version to get familiarity with it while we move the process. I am saying all of this to say that I am not connected to the device at all. I exported this DNP map from an older device that we use for training purposes, and I am trying to import those settings to get started. Not sure if doing it this is way is going to yield the intended benefit or not. Right now the goal is to, get points into Ignition, get some pages built to display the points (even though there will be no data being fed to the system.) And be able to navigate through the pages. This will also allow me to play around with building templates, since we have multiple substations and for the most part they are the same, with little differences here and there. That’s a lot of words to say, I’m practicing hahaha.
If you need to do a CSV import, the manual has the format you'll need to use.
You'd be better off finding a simulator to connect to or something. Trying to develop when you don't actually have a device isn't something Ignition has a very good story for.
@josborn linked to the manual describing the formats, and you can also just create some tags and export them to get a feel as well. But there's nothing that's going to convert whatever format the SEL tag list is in to the Ignition format for you. That's probably going to be non-trivial.
Or if you're mostly interested in other aspects like just putting together screens etc... then just create a bunch of memory tags to reference. Or use one of the "simulator" drivers that pre-populate a bunch of tags. It doesn't matter much if they're exactly like they will be from an online DNP3 device if you're just trying to poke around the platform.
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