Q. [R Product] How to Search for PLC Addresses Used in a Project
A.

We will guide you on how to check the addresses used in the TOP project file.

Open the TOP project file in TOP Design Studio.
Execute [Tool]-[Cross Reference] from the top menu.

 

  1. Enter Search Conditions

When you run the [Address/Object Search] menu, the following screen appears.
To search addresses, select the [Address] tab under the top [Object/Address] tab.

[Location] means the search location (scope).
- ALL means entire project,
- ALL Screen means all screens,
- ALL Global means all global areas (recipes/alerts/logs, etc.).
To search the entire project, select [ALL], or to narrow the scope to specific screen(s), select the specific screen.

 

[Object] means which objects to search: select [ALL] to search all objects, or select a specific object to narrow search.

In [PLC], select the address type to search. To search for PLC addresses, select [PLC1].

 

 

[Address Name] is the device name of the address type selected in [PLC].
[Address Keyword] is the address number to search.
For example, to search address [D0010], select [D] for the Address Name and enter  as the keyword.

 

2. Display Search Results

After input, press the [Search] button at the top, and the results are displayed in lists.

There are an upper list and a lower list.

The upper list is sorted by [Location] order — global areas (recipes-alerts-logs) are displayed first, then by screen.
You can change this sorting by clicking the headers of the list.
Clicking the [Address] header sorts addresses sequentially, toggling ascending/descending order with the small arrow each click.

 

 

The lower list shows the objects and global areas using the address selected from the upper list.

Double-clicking a list item in either list opens the property window of the object using the address. If it is a global address, the global setting window opens.

If you want to save the search results to an Excel file, press the [Export to Excel] button at the top.

 

 

 

#Note: To see the addresses used at a glance on a single screen rather than search, use the [Hint] feature in TOP Design Studio’s top [View] menu.

Set the hint to [Always Show] and content to [All Address], and the addresses used by each object are shown at the top-left of each object on the screen, allowing easy viewing of all addresses at once.

This concludes the direct English translation of the instructions for searching PLC addresses used in the R product TOP project.