Selection and settings

When no conversion is running, you can go back to the earlier steps by clicking Source, Selection or Settings in the side bar.

When the source has been read, the devices are listed as cards. A card shows the device type (HMI or PLC) and the HMI family (Basic / Comfort / Advanced, WinCC Unified, WinCC Professional). You mark the devices to convert with the check box; a device that cannot be converted stays inactive and states the reason. Clicking an HMI card opens its content on the right.

Each category has a search box and the Select all and Clear buttons; screen groups appear as headings. An item that is not selected is left out of the conversion.

The Always included section of the Selection step lists what is converted regardless of the selection: read cycles, connections and connection information, the graphics in use, and, from the selected PLCs, the data blocks used by the HMI tags and the PLC tag tables.

The data blocks and PLC tag tables are needed to convert symbolic addresses to absolute addresses. If you have tags with symbolic addresses, leave the PLC selected. Address resolution is described on the tags and addresses page.

There is one row for each HMI device: the project name and the .fvs file to be saved. You pick the folder with Browse…. The file path must end with .fvs and the project name must not be empty.

Convert › runs for each device in turn. First the source is read and the data is exported to a temporary folder; with a TIA source, the connection to TIA is released when reading is finished. For WinCC Professional projects, a symbol mapping panel may open next. Then the data is converted and the .fvs file is written. Each device has a progress bar, and a log appears below.

If a device fails, the conversion stops, the details are written in the log, and you return to the Settings step with ‹ Go back.