Siemens.Collaboration.Net.TiaPortal.Openness.Extensions 18.0.1685432504

TIA Portal Openness Extensions

Includes

Siemens Collaboration Openness Extensions provide extensions for Siemens Engineering types to help you write cleaner and more efficient code.

Installation

• install package Siemens.Collaboration.Net.TiaPortal.Openness.Extensions and select a matching version (17.* = TIA Portal V17, 18.* = TIA Portal V18)
• reload and build the project

Dependencies

By installing this package, the following packages are automatically installed and must not be installed individually:

• TIA Portal Openness References
  All Siemens.Engineering assemblies are referenced automatically. Please see README for further documentation.

• TIA Portal Openness Resolver
  Using Api.Global.Openness().Initialize() will resolve all Siemens.Engineering assemblies at runtime. Please see README for further documentation.

Extensions

TIA Portal Openness Extensions provide a lot of extensions for various Siemens Engineering types. The following chapters are an excerpt of the most frequently used extensions.

Hardware

Get all Device in a project (iterates through devices, device groups and ungrouped devices recursively)

IEnumerable<Device> devices = tiaProject.AllDevices()

Recursively get all DeviceItem of a Device

IEnumerable<DeviceItem> deviceItems = myDevice.AllDeviceItems()

Get all PlcSoftware instances in a project recursively

IEnumerable<PlcSoftware> plcSoftwares = tiaProject.AllPlcSoftwares()

Get all Startdrive devices in a project recursively

IEnumerable<Device> drives = tiaProject.AllStartdriveDevices()

Get all HMI devices (Advanced/Professional/Unified) in a project recursively

IEnumerable<Device> hmiDevices = tiaProject.AllHmiDevices()

Get all IO addresses used in an IoSystem

var addresses = ioSystem.GetIoAddresses();

Get all devices, containing device items with addresses in an IoSystem

IEnumerable<(Device Device, IEnumerable<(DeviceItem DeviceItem, IEnumerable<Address> Addresses)> deviceInfos = ioSystem.GetIoAddressInfos();

Software

If the given device is known to be a PLC, get the PlcSoftware of the device

PlcSoftware plcSoftware = device.AsPlc();

Get all blocks recursively

IEnumerable<PlcBlock> blocks = plcSoftware.BlockGroup.AllBlocks();

Parents

Get all parents of an IEngineeringObject

IEnumerable<IEngineeringObject> parents = engineeringObject.Parents();

Get first parent of type Device of an IEngineeringObject

Device device = engineeringObject.Parent<Device>();

Get TiaPortal instance

TiaPortal tiaPortal = engineeringObject.TiaPortalInstance();

Attributes

Get an attribute with type

string name = deviceItem.tAttribute<string>("Name"))
if (name is null)
  logger.Error("Attribute not found");

Try set an attribute

if (deviceItem.TrySetAttribute("Name", "My Device Item"))
  logger.Information("Name was set");
else
  logger.Error("Unable to set name of the device");

Try get an attribute

if (deviceItem.TryGetAttribute("Name", out var name))
  logger.Information($"The name is: {name}");
else
  logger.Error("Unable to read name of the device");

Transfer attributes from one device to another device

// get attribute infos of all attributes
var sourceAttributeInfo = deviceA.GetAllAttributeInfos(tiaPortal, accessMode, null, excludeTypes)

// change the target
var targetObjectAttributeInfo = sourceAttributeInfo.Copy(targetDevice)

// apply values
targetObjectAttributeInfo.ApplyValuesFrom(sourceAttributeInfo)

Misc

Serialize path to engineering object to string

string engineeringObjectPath = engineeringObject.GetPath();

Deserialize path of engineering object to engineering object

IEngineeringObject engineeringObject = engineeringObjectPath.ToEngineeringObject();
Device device = devicePath.ToEngineeringObject<Device>();

Get the version of specified product (default "TIA Portal Openness")

Version opennessVersion = tiaPortal.Version(); // 17.0.1.5 = V17 Service Pack 1 Update 5
Version startdriveVersion = tiaPortal.Version("SINAMICS Startdrive Advanced"); // 17.0.0.2 = V17 Update 2