Project Upload Process

Upload a prepared WinCC OA project to the Edge Device through the Administration interface.

Before uploading your project, verify structural and compatibility requirements and ensure all configurations are in place.

  • Review and confirm all required project files are present and intact.
  • Validate dependencies and ensure compatibility with the Edge environment.
  • Back up the entire project directory.
  • Review version compatibility between engineering and edge runtime environments.
  • Ensure all required network prerequisites are met, see also Configuration Settings

Once completed, your project is ready for configuration and upload.

This task describes how to compress, clean, and upload your project using the WinCC OA Administration UI.

  1. Create a backup of the WinCC OA project folder.
  2. Optionally reduce archive size:
    1. Delete the logs folder.
    2. Delete the localdb folder from \db\wincc_oa\.
  3. Compress the entire project directory into a ZIP archive.
    Include all required subdirectories.
    Note:
    In addition to .zip following archive formats are also supported:
    • .tar.gz
    • .tar
    • .gz
    • .tgz
  4. Open the WinCC OA Administration interface on your Edge Device.
  5. Log in using administrator credentials.
    Refer to Default Administration Access.
  6. Navigate to the project upload section.
  7. Select and upload the prepared ZIP archive.
  8. Monitor the upload progress and wait for confirmation of an successful upload.

The project archive is successfully transferred and ready to be launched.