Projects Plc Lifecycle

Goal

Take a PLC-only project from nothing to a built artifact: create the project, open it in the IDE, author IEC 61131-3 logic, and build it.

Note

This flow only requires the portal — no live runtime or device is needed to reach a successful build. Deploying the build to a runtime is covered in Runtime control overview.

Before you start

• Prerequisites: A signed-in account in an organization that allows project creation.
• Required role/permission: An Editor/Admin-level role. Viewers cannot create, edit, or build projects (see Viewer (read-only) overview).
• Settings that affect behavior:
  • Project type = PLC only — chosen at creation; it determines the project structure (POUs, type definitions, global variables, configuration) and, unlike PLC with HMI, omits the HMI section. See Project types.
  • Project access — project-level access controls who can open and edit it (see Project access).
  • Licensing — building/deploying may consume licensed features; see Licensing.

Steps

1. Open Projects at /portal/projects.
2. Create a new project and select project type PLC only; give it a name.
3. Open the project in the IDE (/portal/workspace/ide/:id) — see IDE overview.
4. In the project tree, add POUs (programs, function blocks, functions) and write your logic in the Structured Text editor.
5. Configure tasks and program configurations under the project’s Configuration section.
6. Build the project via the build action; check results in Builds (/portal/workspace/builds/:id).

1. Open Projects and start Create project

   

2. Configure the project type, language and platform

   

3. The new project opens in the IDE

   

Related

• Project types
• IDE overview
• Builds
• Runtime control overview