Is there any plan to come up with a tool to replace the functionality of easily configuring Alarm bits via the CSV export/import in Excel. The change to XML only for Alarming exporting and importing has caused me a lot of time and boredom by the need to manually modify each bit and comment in Ignition. Gone are the days of exporting the PLC comments and addresses and using them for the HMI alarm import. I know there is a lot more functionality in the alarming now but most of that should be done in the PLC not the HMI anyways.
This has come up before. The issue is that with the advances in alarming configurations, it generally precludes using CSV.
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