TIA Portal: DB's (Data Blocks)... why and how?! Here's the answer

Data Blocks are getting more and more important and easy to use... but on the other side complex, powerful and frightening! But actually they are quite simply, see for yourself!

Contents:
- DB's and their applications
- Instance DB
- Global DB
- Rewiring I/O with DB
- DB structure
- Reinitializing
- Start Values
- Setpoints
- Retain Values
- Snapshots
- DB Handling
- DB - HMI communication
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[MaxEva]

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[Donnner]

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[mirkorenerLT]

thank you so much for the clear explanation!!!
It's quite a long time that I work with the tia portal and I never put too much attention to the setpoint function, but it's super useful 👍

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[srirams]

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[teelo]

First of all.... Thank you for the great tutorials', they are helping me a lot with my learning curve. Can you just confirm that the 'PLC Tags' are just for direct input-output the rest of the data is either through data blocks of memory bits. Thanks again for sharing your amazing knowledge!! Sorry for the beginners question.

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[nscbaptista]

Hi Hegamurl. Using MEMORIES (for example %M0.0) I can very easly get the HMI buttons working, just adding that "M"s contacts to the Ladder program, which I can see that also gets organized and understandable. With Data Blocks I couldn't but also I note some screens have some selecting windows a little different (on the data blocks tags)...my version of TIA PORTAL is V16...don't know if that matters for this case...JUST ONE MORE THING: I love your videos and you are a great teacher. Regards.