You can create device templates based on field devices or I/O modules. The following description applies to field devices as well as to I/O modules even though only the term field device is used to increase readability.
The following paragraphs list:
The criteria that must be fulfilled in order to save a field device or I/O module, including logic and visualization, as device template;
The information that is saved in the device template.
The field devices must meet the following criteria in order to be saved as device templates:
Field devices must be linked to the fieldbusses listed in the Supported Fieldbusses list;
The device type must be installed in the .
You can only create templates from correct applications. Correct means that no errors are detected during the process.
In order to include control logic into a template, the control logic must contain one or more code sections that exchange data with the field device. This control logic must be executed (added to a task or called by another program). Otherwise, it is not taken into account when executing the command.