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 6.25.1 Saving Data from a DTM to be Upgraded


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6.1 DTM Peer To Peer Communication
6.1.1 Establish a Connection between DTM and Device
6.1.2 Asynchronous Connect
6.1.3 Asynchronous Disconnect
6.1.4 Asynchronous Transaction
6.2 Nested Communication
6.2.1 Generate Systemtopology
6.2.2 Establish a Connection between DTM and Device
6.2.3 Asynchronous Transaction
6.3 Topology Scan
6.3.1 Scan Network
6.3.2 Cancel Topology Scan
6.3.3 Provisional Scan Result Notifications
6.3.4 Scan for Communication Hardware
6.3.5 Manufacturer specific Device Identification
6.4 Registration of Protocol Specific FDT Schemas
6.5 Configuration of a Fieldbus Master
6.6 Starting and Releasing Applications
6.7 Channel Access
6.8 DCS Channel Assignment
6.9 Printing of DTM Specific Documents
6.10 Printing of Frame Application Specific Documents
6.11 Propagation of Changes
6.12 Locking
6.12.1 Locking for Non Synchronized DTMs
6.12.2 Locking for Synchronized DTMs
6.13 Instantiation and Release
6.13.1 Instantiation of a New DTM
6.13.2 Instantiation of an Existing DTM
6.13.3 Instantiation of a DTM User Interface
6.13.4 Release of a DTM User Interface
6.14 Persistent Storage of a DTM
6.14.1 State machine of instance data
6.14.1.1 Modifications
6.14.1.2 Persistence
6.14.2 Saving Instance Data of a DTM
6.14.3 Reload of a DTM Object for Another Instance
6.14.4 Copy and Versioning of a DTM Instance
6.15 Audit Trail
6.16 Comparison of Two Instance Data Sets
6.16.1 Comparison Without User Interface
6.16.2 Comparison With User Interface
6.17 Failsafe Data Access
6.18 Set or Modify Device Address With User Interface
6.19 Sets or Modifies Known Device Addresses Without User Interface
6.20 Display or Modify All Child Device Addresses With User Interface
6.21 Device Initiated Data Transfer
6.22 Starting and Releasing DTM User Interface in Modal Dialog
6.23 Parent Component Handling Redundant Slave
6.24 Initialization of a Channel ActiveX Control
6.24.1 Supports IFdtChannelActiveXControl2
6.24.2 Does Not Support IFdtChannelActiveXControl2
6.25 DTM Upgrade
6.25.1 Saving Data from a DTM to be Upgraded
6.25.2 Loading Data in the Replacement DTM
6.26 Usage of IDtmSingleDeviceDataAccess::ReadRequest / Write Request
6.27 Instantiation of DTM and BTM

6.25.1 Saving Data from a DTM to be Upgraded

The first step is to store the information from the DTM that is for upgrade. The Frame Application needs to store additional information about the DTM:

  • ClassID of the DTM
  • UUID of the stored data format
  • Storage Type
  • Additional information about the device.
This information is associated to the stored data and can be used later by the Frame Application to identify and manage data set. The following diagram provides an illustration of that sequence:

The provided XPath is incorrect: the correct XPath is //fdt:DtmDeviceType/fdt:DataSetFormats/fdt:Current/@dataSetID. Note that the element is called DataSetFormats, not DataFormats.

<Current> is defined as mandatory. Please note that the data set ID is specified in the information XML. You cannot have a "current" setting there, because GetInformation() is maily called during the catalog update. At this point in time, the DTM does not yet have an initialized data set at all. Instead, <Current> should be present in GetParameters() but should be omitted in GetInformation().

In order to get the currently used data set ID, the frame application should call GetParameters() after Save(). Maybe the DTM stores the data set during every Save() in a different format, or keeps the originally imported format or whatever. At least, it cannot be assumed that it is the data set version from GetInformation().


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