
Uses Openness to open your V14 SP1 project - this will require a working version of TIA Portal V14 SP1. Start Openness V14 SP1 by navigating to the.exe file inside TiaPortalOpennessDemo_V14SP1\TiaPortalOpennessDemo\bin\Release. Replace all SW/Interface/V3 with SW/Interface/V2. I like to use Notepad++ since it can find and replace in any number of files in one shot, but you can use any text editor to make these changes. Before we can re-import these into V14 SP1, we have to change a few parameters.
xml files contain all the information from your TIA Portal blocks and screens as structured XML code.
Select what device or devices you want to export and click 'export.' By default, this will export all the code on that device as. Use Openness to open your V15 Project - this will require a working version of TIA Portal V15. Start Openness V15 by navigating to the.exe file inside TiaPortalOpennessDemo_V15\TiaPortalOpennessDemo\bin\Release. Create a new V14 SP1 project with the same hardware and device configuration as your V15 project, in TIA Portal V14 SP1. Download TiaPortalOpennessDemo Version 15 and 14 SP1. TIA Portal Openness can import and export more than this, but these items cover most of what you would otherwise have to recreate manually, and some of the special cases you are likely to run into. Program blocks with arrays of data blocks. Openness, and specifically this post, are geared towards saving time and effort by exporting and importing: This process is time-consuming and incomplete since it misses much if the block's metadata and some blocks can't automatically convert into STL. xlsx files between TIA Portal versions, but some parts, like ladder logic and HMI screens can’t be easily exported and reimported to older versions. It's possible to export these as a source, assuming the code can be first converted into structured text language (STL). Many parts of TIA Portal projects, like PLC/HMI tags and HMI alarms, can already be exported and imported as. That’s where TIA Portal Openness can help.įor those looking to revert projects from V15 to V14, this post will outline the process of using TIA Portal Openness to automatically revert a project from TIA Portal V15 to V14 SP1 (note that due to large changes in the XML format, this will not work for versions earlier than V14 SP1).
However, there are times when you want to revert a project to an older version of TIA Portal, something that Portal cannot do. Updating projects from one version to the next is as easy as opening the project in the newer version of Portal. Siemen’s TIA Portal provides quite a few useful features that make it very easy to update and maintain code.