Tab: Symbol Rights

On this tab of the generic device editor, you define the access rights of different user groups (clients) to the individual symbol sets available on the controller.

For more information see: Symbol configuration

Requirement: User management must be set up on the PLC. An application was downloaded to the controller for which symbol sets were defined in the CODESYS project. They have access data for logging in to the controller.

In the Symbol Sets view, all symbol sets are listed below the Application node whose definition was downloaded with the application to the controller.

In the Rights view, the user groups defined in the user management of the controller are listed in a table. When a symbol set is selected, you see the access rights of the corresponding user group to the symbols of this set. : Access granted; : Access denied. You can change the access rights by double-clicking the symbol.

Click the button to save the current access configuration to an XML file The file type is Device symbol management files (*.dsm). Click the button to read a file like this from the hard drive.