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Configuring jobs for B&R Automation Studio

  1. Create a job with the B&R Automation Studio upload type.

  2. Go to the B&R Automation Studio settings section.

    Figure: Job configuration, B&R Automation Studio settings section

  3. If there is more than one APJ project file in the component, select the desired project in the dropdown menu.

  4. Select the Only the Active Configuration checkbox to specify whether only the active configuration or all possible connection paths to a PLC should be taken into account during job execution.
  5. In the Excluded BR files field, specify certain files that should not be taken into account when executing the job, e.g. because they are generated dynamically at runtime and therefore always lead to differences.

INI file parameters for the PVITransfer.exe tool

The PVITransfer.exe tool is required for creating backups of B&R projects. Normally, octoplant carries out an automatic search of the Windows registry to determine the installation path of a tool. This is the default process. If this process fails, you can specify the storage location of the PVITransfer.exe tool using INI files. Some instances that may cause this process to fail include:

  • The B&R setup not writing entries to the Windows registry
  • A user uninstalling an older version without correctly cleaning up old entries
  • Multiple versions of B&R are installed on the same machine. While this is allowed by B&R, if there is only one entry, that entry will be overwritten by the latest version

To determine the storage location for the PVITransfer.exe tool using INI files, proceed as follows:

  1. Go to the Upload\AgentStation.ini file.
  2. Go the [BRAutomationStudio] section or create it if it does not already exist.
  3. Enter the 5430 key and the path to the storage location of the PVITransfer.exe tool as its value.

Example:

[BRAutomationStudio]
5430=E:\B_R_V11\PVI\V4.11\PVI\Tools\PVITransfer\PVITransfer.exe