Task Configuration

Overview

The Task Configuration defines 1 or several tasks for controlling the processing of an application program.

It is a resource object for an application. It has to be inserted in the Applications tree below an application node. A task can call an application-specific program POU, which is only available in the Applications tree below the application. It can also call a program which is managed in the Global node of the Applications tree. In the latter case, the program that is available globally will be instantiated by the application.

You can edit a task configuration in the Task Configuration editor.

In online mode, the Task Configuration editor provides a monitoring view that presents information on cycles, cycle times, and task status.

As an additional functionality of the task configuration, if supported by the device, the monitoring view allows a dynamic analysis of the POUs which are controlled by a task. It supplies information about the cycle times, the quantity of function block calls and the unused code lines.