I'm trying to move from 7.1 to 8, but the changes to the DSC module are causing me to beat my head against the wall. Under 7.1 I used to do the following:
1. Launch Industrial Automation OPC Servers
2. Create a new object that referred to my PLC (an Allen Bradley PLC5/30)
3. Save the lpd file and set it as the startup process file
4. Launch LabVIEW and select Configure Tags in the DSC submenu
5. Use the add tag wizard to browse to my PLC object and select ranges of addresses to make tags for
With version 8 the Industrial Automation OPC Servers seems unchanged, but the tag editor has been replaced by the shared variable editor. The shared variable editor does not seem to be able to browse to my PLC object at all. I can't seem to bind a shared variable to a PLC address, and when I import from an old scf file I get variables that are not bound to anything (as far as I can tell).
What must I do to make the object that I defined in Industrial Automation OPC Servers visible to the shared variable editor so that I can create shared variables to read/write to addresses in my PLC? Or am I going about this the wrong way altogether? Is there some new methodology for creating OPC server objects besides using Industrial Automation OPC Servers? This was all fairly simple in 7.1 (not intuitive, but simple), and now I'm just lost altogether.
