Enter a batch text
Prepare a text input containing CH-001 with the caption Charge. No PLC text transfer is tested here.
1. Insert text input
Choose Basic objects → Text → Input (Eingabe), not Output. The reused selection screenshot highlights Output; for this exercise choose Input. Place beside the tank and open properties; the title must identify text input.
2. Set initial text and caption
Name Charge_Tank_01; Text / initial value CH-001; extra Label Charge with Visible enabled; X/Y 410/160; size 190/30. Retain rotation and opacity. The font-size field is disabled in the screenshot. Leave process fields empty: their gray examples are placeholders. Apply.
3. Check and save
Check CH-001 with Charge above it and save Ctrl+S. This records the configured initial value, not a PLC write test. The separate red Störung output is unaffected.
4. Text entry versus process integration
In Play, Enter submits a write request to the configured source and variable. That is not confirmation of PLC acceptance. Determine supported type, text length, address and transfer behavior for the actual driver and target. This unassigned field does not create warehouse batches or batch reports.
5. Common questions
A missing Charge caption requires Label and Visible. CH-001 is text, not a numeric setpoint. The 16 output-text mappings belong to text output, not text input. No real transfer occurred in this example.
Keyboard shortcuts
Apply or close property dialogs, select objects on the canvas and leave any active text field before using an object shortcut.
- Delete — delete selection
- Deletes selected simple objects without another confirmation. Check the selection first.
- Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y — undo / redo
- Undoes or restores an available object edit. This is not a recovery mechanism for deleted pages or files.
- Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V — copy / paste
- Copies the selection and inserts an offset copy. Check names and process assignments afterward.
- Ctrl+X — cut
- Copies objects to the internal object clipboard and removes them from the page. Paste with Ctrl+V.
- Ctrl+A — select all
- Selects unlocked objects on the current page.
- Arrow keys — move precisely
- Moves the selection one pixel in the chosen direction within the page bounds.
- Shift+Arrow — next grid position
- Moves the selection in the grid direction using the page grid spacing.
- Ctrl+L / Ctrl+Shift+L — lock / unlock
- Locks the selection; Ctrl+Shift+L unlocks all locked objects on the current page.
- Esc — end editor action
- Cancels an action such as placement or clears the current selection.
- Ctrl+S — save project
- Saves applied changes. Save again after deleting, moving or copying.
The fixed global alarm area cannot be deleted or copied. Structural objects with assigned contents can ask an additional question about those contents.