Set up properties files

By default, PLA 3.0 users can use all configuration profiles available for a Data Acquisition Module and can create, edit, and delete all configuration profiles. Using the properties file of a Data Acquisition Module, you can restrict these rights if you require.

About properties files

Properties files hold configuration profile-related settings and restrictions regarding the configuration and selection of configuration profiles. When you create the first configuration profile for a Data Acquisition Module in your environment, PLA 3.0 automatically creates the respective properties file.

The properties file contain the settings of all default and custom configuration profiles you created for the Data Acquisition Module. The number of the profile indicates the sequence in which you created the configuration profiles.

In the following example, the

Default
                    configuration

profile was created first, the Custom configuration profile second.

com.stegmannsystems.edp.dataacquisition.softmaxPro.config1.genPosInfo=false
com.stegmannsystems.edp.dataacquisition.softmaxPro.config1.importedValueValidationStrategy=vsNOVALIDATION
com.stegmannsystems.edp.dataacquisition.softmaxPro.config1.name=Default configuration
com.stegmannsystems.edp.dataacquisition.softmaxPro.config1.posOption=TOP
com.stegmannsystems.edp.dataacquisition.softmaxPro.config2.genPosInfo=false
com.stegmannsystems.edp.dataacquisition.softmaxPro.config2.importedValueValidationStrategy=vsIMPORTINVALIDASEMPTYTO
com.stegmannsystems.edp.dataacquisition.softmaxPro.config2.name=Custom configuration
com.stegmannsystems.edp.dataacquisition.softmaxPro.config2.posOption=TOP_AND_CLEAR

Location

The SoftMax® Pro (3.x - 5.x) Data Acquisition Module uses the SoftMax Pro (3.x–5.x) Data Acquisition Package.properties file located in C:\ProgramData\Stegmann Systems\PLA 3.0.

Edit the properties file

You can edit the properties file in any standard text editor. To edit the properties file, you need write permissions to the C:\ProgramData\Stegmann Systems\PLA 3.0 directory.

Important: We recommend you edit the properties file only for advanced configuration tasks such as the setup of restrictions. Use PLA 3.0 for standard configurations such as the creation and deletion of configuration profiles.

Use key=value pairs to configure the settings. You can add a new key=value pair, or modify an existing pair if you require. The encoding of the properties files is ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1). You have to enter all non-Latin-1 characters using \ as an escape character.

Examples: Enter the special character : as \: and the special character \ as \\.