Maxium nuber of DPE\'s in a DPT

[williephillips]

Does anyone know if there is a maxium number of Data Point Elements that can be configured in a Data Point Type.
I have one that I can not add another DPE to it unless I delete an existing one. This one has nearly 15,000 configs in it.
I don't know how many DPEs are in it.

Thanks

[leoknipp]

Hello,

if I remember correctly the maximum number of DPE's (counting nodes and leafs) in one dp-type is 32767.
With the dpNames() command you can get the number of elements, when a datapoint is already existing for this dp-type.

Best Regards
Leopold Knipp
Senior Support Specialist

[leoknipp]

Hello,

just as an additional information.
It is very uncommon to use datapoint types with such a complex structure and high number of dp-elements.
Normally a dp-type has not more than 200--300 elements, which is already quite big.

Best Regards
Leopold Knipp
Senior Support Specialist

[williephillips]

If I understand this correctly A "Data Point Type" contains "Data point Elements". Data Point Elements contain "Configs"
So I have a Data Point Type with 291 Data Point Elements and 14,975 Configs.

I can not add another Data Point Element unless I delete an existing one.

I get this error "PVSS00ascii (1), 2014.05.29 08:28:01.188, IMPL, WARNING, 54, Unexpected state, PersDpIdentification, handleManipTypeChangeMsg, sorry - change of element-type not implemented"

I get the same error is I to make the change in the Datapoint Parameterization instead of using the ascii_in command.

Thanks

[leoknipp]

Yes, you're right.
A datapoint type defines the structure (nodes + leafs = dp-elements) for the instances = datapoints.
The datapoint then has the given structure where you can add configs to the dp-elements.

If your calculation of dp-elements and configs is correct you would have more than 50 configs at every element. This is not possible because there are not more than 16 configs which can be added to a dp-element.

This log-message occurs when you try to modify the datatype (bool, float, int, ....) of an exisiting datapoint element.
If this modification for the datapoint type shall be done with an ASCII-file you have to remove the information for the element-ID from the ASCII-file (number behind the "#" sign). Only the datatype needs to be specified.

Best Regards
Leopold Knipp
Senior Support Specialist

[williephillips]

Please look at the attached file and see if I am calling the parts of the PARA the correct names.

Thanks
Willie

[williephillips]

OK I'll try this again

I tried to attach a xl spreadsheet here but it didn't work

[leoknipp]

There was no file attached, therefore we cannot have a look at it.
Maybe it is easier to create an official support request. Handling the information and attachments is a little bit easier with the official support tools.

Best Regards
Leopold Knipp
Senior Support Specialist

[williephillips]

Is it possible to get an email address to send the sceen shot of my PARA file.
wphillips@mmm.com

[leoknipp]

From your e-mail address I've seen that you are an employee of 3M in the USA.
In this case the company Brueckner in Germany is responsible for the support of your projects.

Please get in contact with them to clarify your questions.

Best Regards
Leopold Knipp
Senior Support Specialist