How to read External Access of Tags and Usage of UDTs?

[JulZimmermann]

Hello,

is it possible to read the External Access (Read/Write, Read Only, or None) of Variables and Usage of UDTs? (Input, Output, InOut, Local) of UDTs?

Tags in Logix Designer:

UDTs in Logix Designer:

Thanks!

[timyhac]

This is not exposed in libplctag.

Quickly browsing the Rockwell documentation there was some info on this:

• pg12 of the Logic 5000 Controllers Data Access manual
• page 60 of the Logix 5000 Controllers I/O and Tag Data manual

[JulZimmermann]

Hi.

I looked at pages 39 and 48 of the documentation

If I understand correctly, the information I wanted to access is not available via the Get_Instance_Attribute_List (0x55) and Get_Attribute_List (0x03) services.

Thank you anyway!

[joed74]

Maybe it is accessible via Get_Instance_Attribute_List (0x55) and Attribute 10:

Source: https://docs.pycomm3.dev/en/latest/_modules/pycomm3/logix_driver.html#LogixDriver.get_tag_list (scroll down to function get_instance_attribute_list_service)

[kyle-github]

Thanks for the tip. This looks interesting. I wonder if just always requesting attribute 10 will work? Each attribute has a separate status response, so it might work as long as we can see that asking for attribute 10 fails on some systems and the others succeed.

I wonder why the pycomm3 author is pulling attribute 6? I found attribute 8 by experimentation.

[tomatac]

It would be really nice to be able to read tags that are based on UDTs.
I am curious, what is the currently the best practice on that?