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The System Management is the central administrative unit for WinCC OA Systems.
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ASCII Manager
The ASCII Manager allows you to input and output and thus edit datapoints and data point types and to configure datapoints.
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Creating datapoints

System Management
The System Management is the central administrative unit for WinCC OA Systems.
- System management
- Diagnostics
- Reports
- Database
  - Data backup in WinCC OA
  - Supported Database Combinations
    An overview over the possible database combinations within a WinCC OA project.
  - WCCOAtoolCreateDb
  - Upgrading a project using ISO character sets to UTF8 character sets
  - History DB
  - Archive/Export Alerts
  - ASCII Manager
    The ASCII Manager allows you to input and output and thus edit datapoints and data point types and to configure datapoints.
  - Online Backup
  - Steps of the online DB backup process
  - Archiving and Compression
  - Datapoint Groups
    The main purpose of grouping datapoints is to simplify selection of datapoints and datapoint elements.
  - PowerConfig Editor
  - RDB Archiving
  - RDB Compression
  - RDB Log
  - HDB/RAIMA - RDB Parallel
  - OLE DB Provider
    OLE DB is a Microsoft specification for accessing data on different computers. It is based on Microsoft's COM technology and is the successor to the older and limited ODBC technology.
  - NextGen Archiver (NGA)
    The NextGenArchive (NGA) for is a archiving solution which extends flexibility while keeping the possibilities and strengths of the current methods. This chapter provides an overview of the NGA feature.
  - SQLite®
- Driver
- Driver IEC
- Driver OPC
- Driver S7
- SmartSCADA
- Permission
- Communication
- Settings

Creating datapoints

You can create datapoints with the ASCII Manager in one of two ways. Either, a data point is automatically generated if it does not exist as yet and if an attribute for an element of this datapoint is set or you can create datapoints using the keyword DpName. With this method, the ASCII Manager attempts to create a datapoint with the specified ID provided it exists. If it has already been assigned, the next available ID is selected and a message is displayed. This method is used mainly to update projects.

How to delete datapoint using the ASCII manager, see chapter Project engineering -> Mass configuration -> Templates.

Example


Dp Name	Type Name	ID
Station_1	Station	4
Station_2	Station	5

If you input this ASCII file, the datapoints Station_1 and Station_2 with IDs 4 and 5 are created.