Ladder Viewer and Ladder add-on (828D only)   
23.6 Displaying information on the program blocks 
  Turning 
790  Operating Manual, 03/2013, 6FC5398-8CP40-3BA1 
Further information 
●  Properties 
Name of the block, author, number of the subprogram, data class, date it was generated, 
date of the last change and comment. 
●  Local variable 
Name of the variable, variable type, data type and comment. 
Access protection 
 
 
  If a program block is password-protected. The ladder diagram display 
can be enabled using the "Protection" softkey. 
Displaying the program status 
 
 
1.  Press the "Program stat. OFF" softkey to hide the program status in the 
status display. 
 
2.  Press the "Program stat. ON" softkey to unhide the program status in 
the status display. 
Display progress status 
If your PLC has the function "Progress status" available, the status values are displayed at 
the time of execution of the operations. The status of the local data memory and the 
accumulators is also displayed. 
 
 
1.  Press the "Program stat. OFF" softkey to hide the program status in the 
status display. 
 
2.  Press the "Program stat. ON" softkey to unhide the program status in 
the status display. 
 
Change colors for displaying of progress or program status 
In progress status, different colors are used to display information. 
 
Display  Color 
Signal flow of power rail, when status active  Blue 
Signal flow in the networks  Blue 
All operations that are active and that are executed without 
error (corresponds to signal flow) 
Blue 
Status of the Boolean operations (corresponds to signal 
flow) 
Blue