XL-Online Training

How To...
A Step by Step Guide to using the main features of
XL-Online

This training document is designed to detail the step by

step procedures and features of the XL-Online
Commissioning Tool.

Although there are many features within XL-Online, this

training is designed to give the trainee the basic
necessary skills to use the main features of the tool.

There is a fully detailed XL-Online Users Guide and

Help files to assist in the more detailed aspects of the
tool.

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How to

1. Start XL-Online....4

2. Communicatie to a Controller....6

3. Download a Care Application to a Controller..7

4. Upload a Care Application from a Controller...8

5. Set the Time, Date and Daylight Savings....9

6. Set and View Time Programs......10

7. Set and View Datapoints and their Attributes.12

8. Set and View Parameters..14

9. Set and View Trends...15

10. View Alarm Data..18

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1. Starting XL-Online

XL-Online comes as a tool within of Care-XL5000, but can also be bought and
installed separately.

To Start up XL-Online from within Care then either go to the top menu and
select Controller > Tools > XL Online or select the quick access icon

To add a shortcut Icon for XL-Online to the desktop if Care is installed, open
up Windows Explorer select the Care directory. On the left hand side scroll
down until the file Hoax.exe is found. Right click on this file and select the
option Send To > Desktop (create shortcut)

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 The icon will be added to the desktop. Right click on the icon

and select rename and rename the test to XL-Online .

If XL-Online is installed separately to Care then a shortcut will

automatically be installed on the desktop.

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2. Communicating to a Controller

To communicate to a controller then an XW585 cable requires to be

connected between the B-Port (9 Pin connector) on the controller and
the Com Port of the PC. (Some PCs do not have Com Ports anymore
therefore a USB to Com port converter cable will be required from a
third party source).

When XL-Online is started with the XW585 cable connected then

communication between the PC and the controller will try to be
established. It will be obvious that communication is established as an
emulation of the controller MMI will appear in Green on the screen.

If communication is not automatically established then probably the

default Com Port setting of XL-Online is wrong or the baud rate is
wrong. You will need identify the Com Port number that the XW585
cable is connected to on the PC (the USB to Com port adjuster will also
be assigned a Com Port Number. This can be found in Control Panel >
System > Hardware (tab) > Device manager (button).

Once the Com Port number is identified then in XL-Online from the
main menu select File > Connection and the Connect properties box
will appear. From here select the correct Com Port and make sure the
Baudrate is assigned as Auto detect

Press the Connect button and communication should now be

established.

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3. Downloading a Care Application to the Controller

To download a controller via XL-Online then the Care translation files

for the controller are required. If Care is on the PC then they will be
located in the Care Project folder if Care is not on the PC then the
files will be required and copied to a location on the PC.

If a program is already installed in the controller then to erase this

program either press on the MMI the Down and Minus buttons for 5
seconds or press the restart button on the controller.

On the MMI or via the XL-Online MMI emulation set the controller
number and then select Requ. Download

Once XL-Online is open and communicating to the controller select

the Controller tab and then either select from the main menu
Controller > Download or select the icon.

Press the Application button and browse to the location on the PC

where the controller Translated files are.

Select the required controller.pra file and press the Open button.

Then press the Start download button. The application will download
to the controller.

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4. Uploading a Care Application from the Controller

To upload a backup the current application in the ram of the controller

is done in very much the same way as a download.

Once XL-Online is open and communicating to the controller select

the Controller tab and then either select from the main menu
Controller > Upload or select the icon.

Press the Application button and browse to the location on the PC

where the uploaded files are to be stored.

Give the controller a filename.pra and press the Save button.

Then press the Start upload button. The application files will be
uploaded from the controller.

These files can be stored as a backup and used if the application is lost
at a later date or the controller has to be replaced.

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5. Setting the Time, Date and Daylight Savings

Once the controller has been downloaded for the first time, ensure that
the Controller date and time is correct.

To do this in XL-Online from the main menu select General > System
Clock.

To set the Date and Time of the controller to that of the PC (first check
that the PC time and date are correct) select the Use PC Clock and
then press the set Clock button.

To set the Daylight savings so that the controller automatically adjusts

from GMT to BST, select the Enable DST, set the From and To
dates for the Last Sunday in March and October and then press the
Set DST button.

The Time, Date and Daylight saving dates will automatically be set in
the controller.

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6. Setting and Viewing Time Programs

Once the controller has been downloaded the Time programs that were
configured can be viewed and adjusted as required.

To view the Time programs either from the main menu select General
> Application > Time Program or select the icon.

By opening up the tree structure the different options become

available.

Today Overrides this option allows a time program to be

overridden just for today the program will then resort back to
the normal weekly time schedule.

Select the time schedule to override and then click on each of

the Asterisks and fill in the relevant Start and End times and the
Value (or condition) the time program is to control to. Make sure
the Tick box is selected to write each entry to the controller.

Daily Schedules By highlighting a Daily Schedule the

programmed start stop times are seen in the right hand window.
These can be adjusted by clicking on the fields, adjusting them
as required and pressing the tick buttons. Additional times can
be added by right clicking with the mouse in the right hand
window and selecting Add and the User Address point to add
and then filling in the fields as required.

Additional daily schedules are added by right clicking on a daily

schedule in the left hand window and select Create a new Daily
Schedule is created which can be renamed. Right click on the
new schedule and select Overwrite with a copy from and select
an existing schedule then adjusted the copied schedule as
required.

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 Weekly Schedules By highlighting the Weekly Schedule a list
of the days of the week and the Daily Schedule assigned to
each day are listed in the right hand window. To change a Daily
Schedule assigned to a particular weekday, select the Daily
schedule adjacent to the weekday and a drop down box will
appear, select from the list the Daily Schedule required and
press the tick button.

Holiday Schedules If pre-defined Holidays require setting, the

option needs to be enabled. This is done by right clicking on
Holiday schedules and selecting enable. Any holiday days that
are then programmed will overwrite the normal weekly schedule. A
list of pre-defined holiday days will appear in the left hand window
by selecting the Daily Schedule for the relevant holiday days
(default not set) they can be changed to a defined Daily Schedule.

Yearly Schedules It is possible with yearly schedules to set up a

whole calendar for different schedules months and years in advance.
To set this up right click on Yearly Schedule and select Load. On the
template via the Start date drop down box select the start date of the
day/month/year for the schedule to be programmed. Then select the
number of weeks from that start date to be programmed. Press the
OK button and a list of all the days in the selected range will be
displayed, which can be edited as required.

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7. Setting and Viewing Datapoints and their Attributes

All the Datapoints configured in a controller can be viewed for Live

values and their attributes such as alarm limits, alarm type etc can be
viewed and changed.

To access the datapoints in a controller select the Datapoints tab and

then either from the main menu select Datapoints > Load Points or
select the icon.

All the Datapoints in the controller will be loaded into the left hand
window. To view the attributes of a particular datapoint select it and its
attributes will appear in the right hand window.

Any attribute with a pen icon next to it can be changed by, selecting
the text in the Value field, changing the value and then pressing the
Tick button. Any attribute with a padlock icon cannot be changed
(except for the Manual value see below)

To give a point a manual value first select the Manual Mode box
the icon next to manual value will change from a padlock to a pen. A
manual value can now be entered (this will generate an alarm). This
point will forever stay with the set manual value unless put back to
automatic again (to do this untick the Manual Mode tick box)

In the above it is only possible to see the values of one datapoint at a

time. To be able to see live values from a selection of datapoints then a
Watchlist requires being setup. A watchlist is a group of selected
points, which can be saved and re-opened at any time.

To configure a Watchlist select the points to be viewed from the

datapoint list in the left hand window by holding down the Control
key and selecting the required points (each point selected will be
highlighted in blue). Then from either from the main menu select
Datapoints > Add to Watchlist or press the icon.

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 The selected points will appear in a Watchlist window with their Live
values, Alarm and Manual states etc.

To save this Watchlist so that when it is closed it can easily be re-

opened again, select from the Watchlist main menu Groups > Save
As, and then give a location and name for the watchlist.

Once the watchlist is closed it can be opened again by selecting from

the menu Groups > Load and selecting the saved watchlist from the
saved path.

Additional Features

How to easily find which points are in Manual mode by

selecting from the main menu Datapoints > Select points in
manual Mode, a scan is performed on the controller for all the
points currently in a manual state. When finished the points
discovered in a manual state will be highlight with a light grey
background in the left hand window.

How to easily set points from Manual to Automatic mode

once the points in manual mode have been identified (as
above), to set them into Automatic mode then from the main
menu select Datapoints > Clear Manual mode for selection.

Using a Filter search - If there are many points in a controller,

then to find certain types of points it is possible to create a
filter.(this is only useful if the datapoints have been created in
Care with e.g. prefixes and/or a consistent naming convention).
In the example below in the search field by using the asterisk as
a wild character then only the points in the list ending in Temp
as displayed

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8. Setting and Viewing Parameters

All the Parameters configured in a controller can be viewed for current

values and can be changed. It is recommended to have a printout of
the controller from care to easily identify the particular Parameter files
and parameters within the files.

To view the parameters of the controller either select from the main
menu, General > Application > Parameter, or select the icon.

The top window displays all the Parameter File numbers. By double
clicking on one of the parameter files the parameters within the file will
be displayed in the bottom window with their present values.

To change a value highlight it with the mouse, enter the new value and
press the Enter key on the PC.

To Import the Parameter Text Information, select the Import parameter

Info button and then browse to the controller translate files used to
download the application to the controller. Select the required *.txt file
and press the Open button the text information will now be displayed.

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9. Setting and Viewing Trends

To create a Trend plot first select the Trend tab.

Then from the main menu select Trend > New. From the Open
window give file name to the trend and select the Open button

Then from the main menu select Trend > Select datapoints. A list of
all the datapoints in the controller will be displayed. Select via the tick
boxes the points to be put into Trend (maximum of 20 points will be
shown in the bottom window). Then press the Start button for the data
to start recording.

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 Once the points to trend have been selected the values for up to 20
datapoints will be trending in the background. The list of these
datapoints will become available in the Line Info window. Here up to
eight of the 20 datapoints can be selected to display on a Trend Graph
with an associated coloured line. Tick the required points to display and
a colour will automatically be assigned to each point.

By touching the mouse pointer on any part of any line the point, value,
time and date information for the particular part of the line touched will
be displayed.

By clicking with the left mouse button on the yellow time line on the
horizontal axis a two ended arrow cursor will appear which when
dragged left and right will allow time line to be forwarded and advanced
to view data currently off the screen.

By clicking with the right mouse button on the yellow time line on the
horizontal axis a magnifying glass cursor will appear which when
dragged left and right will allow time line to be condensed and
expanded to adjusted the amount of data viewable.

By clicking one of the recording lines a vertical yellow axis will appear
with a scaling related to the line that was selected. Again by clicking
with the left and right mouse buttons on this axis the scale be altered
as above.

By right clicking with the mouse on the grey recording window the
scaling of the axes can be altered as required.

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 The recording can be started and stopped at any time by selecting from
the main menu Trend > Start / Stop Recording. Every time a
recording is started and then stopped the data in that recorded session
is saved as a History file. To view a History file, stop the recording and
from the main menu select Trend > History a list of all the available
sessions will appear. Select the session to restore and view and press
the OK button, then in the Line Info box select the points to be viewed.

Data recorded in the History can be exported to a *.csv (Microsoft

Excel) file to be taken away for analyses or archiving. By selecting from
the main menu Trend > Export Data, the window appears with all the
History sessions in the top window. Select the session to be exported
and select/de-select the datapoints to include in the bottom window
and then press the Export button. Enter a file name and path and
press the Save button.

If only a certain time band within the session is required to be

Exported then untick the Export all flag and enter the required from
and to date and time and then press the Export button.

Pre-configured Trends can be opened and closed by selecting from the

main menu Trend > Open (or Close).

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10. Viewing Alarm Data

To view the Alarm data of a controller first select the Alarms tab.

Any Unacknowledged Alarms currently in the controller will appear in

the window. Each alarm displays datapoint information regarding the
alarm whether it is in alarm currently or has returned from an alarm
condition back to a normal condition.

To clear/acknowledge a particular alarm or all the alarms either from

the main menu select, Alarm > Clear all (or Clear selection) or right
click with the mouse and select as appropriate.

To view the current Active alarms in the controller, from the main
menu select, Alarm > Active alarms, the current alarms in the
controller will be displayed.

To view the alarm History in the controller, from the main menu select,
Alarm > Alarm History buffer, a history of the last one hundred alarms
in the controller will be displayed. These (and the Active alarms) can be
saved to a file for archiving by pressing the Save button and entering
a file name.

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