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a. Insert the library into your Control Project.
b. Connect the library to the Application.
It is possible to package an own library as a System Extension installation kit using
Aspect Express, refer to System 800xA Engineering, Aspect Express
(3BSE032793*). Then the new library is imported by loading the corresponding
system extension in Configuration Wizard.
More information, for example how to build a new Library starting with Plant
Explorer, how to build a new version of a library, and how to upgrade to a new
library version see Appendix B, Library Handling.
Object Types
Building Object Types
This chapter will show, step by step, how to create a simple object type for an
imaginary application. A lot of other possibilities are available even for a simple
object type, but the full description of all possibilities is in the reference part
(Reference Information for Object Types on page 521 in Appendix A, Object
Types).
The activities described here correspond to workflow step Build Project Library,
Versioned Object Type Libraries if you need to build an own library.
The imaginary application consists of a large number of manufacturing cells.
Each cell should have one aspect object containing an operating manual, a general
property aspect with cell data and an operator note aspect. It should also be possible,
and easy to create a file viewer document to log information about the cell in.
One way to create these information objects could have been to create each object
for the cells individually and add the needed aspects on them. Another, more
effective, way is to create an object type describing how instances of this object type
should be created.
This example will show how to create an object type Cell Information.
To create an Object Type you need to have the Application Engineer role.