Description This is an amalgamation of several individual Citect utilities. These applications have been used by Applicon Process Control for quite a while and have aided them in developing rapid Citect systems, saving clients money and the developers time. Many of these tools are used to ensure consistancy between Citect and the plant PLC system, making maintenance quicker and easier. Listed are the applications included in CiSuite.
CiForm - This utility is used to design CiCode forms. It is a graphical interface to the ardous task of form creation. Simply draw the form as you want it, populate the list boxes and combo boxes and with the press of a single button CiForm will generate the CiCode for you and copy it to the Windows clipboard for you to paste into your code.
CiPopup - Create Windows 95 style popup menus for your Citect system. Create menus of any length with nested menus to any depth. Modify your menus simply by changing the contents of a Wndows INI file. The uses for these menus are limited only by your imagination.
CiImport - Finally an application to take your PLC comments and names and import them straight into the Citect variables database. This application will import data from any programming packaging that meets the following criteria - The ability to export to CSV files - Supports names for variable tags - Supports comments for variable tags
CiImport can be run repeatedly through development and will perform the following tasks - Import new tags - Modify addresses of existing tags - Check for tag name duplication between PLC's
CiUsed - This application will take a tag name and generate a complete list of usage throughout the Citect system. It performs comprehensive testing on all databases as well as CiCode and Report files.
CiNotUsed - This useful utility will process a projects variable database, cross reference it against the entire project an report on any tags that have been defined that are not currently in use. You then have the option of marking these tags as deleted and removing them from the project.
CiFunc - will report on usage of user defined functions in a CiCode library. This report may indicate where functions are used, or, optionally, which functions are defined and not used anywhere. CiFunc will process all CiCode libraries for a project or a single CiCode libary.
Applicon no longer support and charge for this Suite. It has not been fully tested after version 5.2. - Graeme Fallon-Ferguson
