Configuration file

The settings for WinCC OA are defined in different sections in the config file. You can edit this file and adapt it to your requirements. Keywords in angular brackets [...] introduce the different sections. They are valid to the next section or to the end of the text file. The file is located in <proj_path>/config/config.

You can also add comments to the config file. To do so, set a hash (#) before the text.

Example:

#data=System1$System2

#event=System1$System2

For a list of all sections and their possible config entries see Possible config entries in WinCC OA.

Caution

Note that if you have created a multilingual project the order of the languages in the config file may not be changed.

Note

Note that many config entries (like minWorkInterval) of the config file are described in the CFG_DOKU_<lang>.html file in wincc_oa_path/config.

Note

In order to reduce the amount of main memory required, one can specify in the Config file for each manager, which CTRL libraries the manager loads  (see CTRL library).

Self-definable configuration file

It is possible to create an own configuration file. The file can have an arbitrary extension e.g. config.nz. If you want to start a project with other settings you can save the additional settings (like the language via the lang entry e.g. langs = "en_US.iso88591") in an additional config file and load the file via +config e.g.

WCCOAui -proj MyProj +config additional.conf

"additonal.conf" is read once (when the file with an identic path and name is located both in proj_path and wincc_oa_path the first file that was found is read) or it can be specified with an absolute path name.