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Creating jobs

To save a device with B&R Automation Studio Version 3 or higher:

  1. Open the Jobs module in the AdminClient.
  2. Select your B&R Automation Studio component in the Project tree.
  3. Click the Create button in the ribbon or drag and drop the component into the Jobs area.
  4. Check that the upload type B&R Automation Studio is displayed in the Job configuration area.
  5. Configure the general sections General, Notification, Upload and compare and Create a version automatically after job run for version creation after job execution. The sections Notification and Create a version automatically after job run are only displayed if the settings required for this have been made.

  6. Configure the required settings in the B&R Automation Studio settings section:
    Figure: Job configuration, B&R Automation Studio settings section

    1. The APJ file of the B&R project should be automatically selected in the Project field. If not, select the file from the dropdown list.
    2. Use 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.
    3. 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.

  7. Save the job and execute it.

Info

You can implement further settings for jobs of this upload type in the AdminClient in the Global settings dialog and by using the INI files.

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, the user may 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.
  3. Enter the key, 5430, 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