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2. As soon as the executable file is run, a .xml file and a text file is created in the same
folder.
3. Copy the ProjectGuids.xml file which was created in the config folder of PGP.
C:\Program Files\ABB Industrial IT\Power Generation Portal\Ac800m\config.
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In the following window which appears, select your Control Builder version.
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Select your project from the window that appears and click OK
Now to build the tag database, the builder opens the Control Builder M automatically.
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In the following window select standard and click OK. This only appears for the first
time.
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In the window above select the Applications from the tree for which you want to build the
Tag database and click on Create the PGP DataBases button.
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The maximum tag name length should be 20 characters. If it is beyond 20, the builder
will ignore those tags. So be sure all tag names are below 20 Char before start the
builder.
Now click on the Build the PGP Databases button and click Close
5. The database has been built and it can be found in C:\Program Files\ABB
Industrial IT\Power Generation Portal\config\tag
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Now when you start PGP, an OPC instance will be created in the registry for
each of the remote OPC servers. This can be found in Registry.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE ABB Power Generation
Portal APPS OPC .
When PGP starts, the OPC monitor utility is started automatically. In the OPC
monitor window you can find all the OPC servers listed. It also shows whether
they are connected or in standby mode.
Please ensure OPCEnum service is running. If not, goto start menu and
type services.msc. Look for OPCEnum service and start it.
Note: The Drive path(C:\) mentioned in this document has to be replaced
with the drive path where PGP is installed.
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One OPC server can handle only 30000 opc items. Hence if more than 30000 OPC
items have to be communicated with PGP, more than 1 OPC servers have to be
used.
The OPC items that are not needed in HMI can be hidden using the Dataprocessor
file present in C:\Program Files\ABB Industrial IT\Power Generation
Portal\config\DataProcessor.
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