Variables are managed persistently in the Recipe Manager. The Recipe Manager does not need any special memory on the controller in order to preserve values and data.
Declaration
A recipe definition consists of a set of variables with values and is created and edited in the “Recipe Manager” object and saved to a file.
Functionality
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You can include a variable in multiple recipes, each with different values.
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In online mode, you can read in the actual values of the variables from the controller and save them as recipe values (specified value).
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You can use the
Recipe Managementlibrary to programmatically implement the creation and editing of a recipe. -
You can save and backup a recipe as a recipe file.