Communication Editor

The Communication editor is a user friendly representation of the Helinks STS internal SCL data model.

The Communication editor is available from the dash board button “Communication Editor”.

It represent always the complete data model of the current project but over multiple visualization axes :

IED Show for each IED of the project a tree view of the SCL IED elements
Data Sets Show for each IED of the project a tree view of the SCL Dataset elements
Report Show for each IED of the project a tree view of the SCL Report Control Block elements
Report Matrix Show a Matrix representation of the report exchanges
GOOSE Matrix Show a Matrix representation of the Goose exchanges
GOOSE Show for each IED of the project a tree view of the SCL Goose Control Block elements
LGOS Show for each IED of the project a tree view of the SCL LGOS elements
Sampled Value Matrix Show a Matrix representation of the Sampled Value exchanges
Sampled Value Show for each IED of the project a tree view of the SCL SV Control Block elements
LSVS Show for each IED of the project a tree view of the SCL LSVS elements
Inputs Show for each IED of the project a tree view of the SCL Inputs/ExtRef elements
Subnet Show for each subnet of the SCL Communication section a tree view of the SCL SubNet elements
DataTypes Show the datatype template section of the SCL
DataExchange Show a tree view representation of the project application exchange.
Connections Show a substation section representation of each signal used in communication exchange
Process Show the process section of the SCL

When an element is selected on the detail view of the communication Editor the related property can be visualized in the properties view.

Properties view of a communication editor element

Please note that the information contained in the Communication Editor is established by the choices made in the other editors (SLD Designer, 61850 Configurator, communication generation, …).

Please note that the information contained in the Communication Editor is established by the choices made in the other editors (SLD Designer, 61850 Configurator, communication generation, …). Any modification directly impacts the SCL structure of your project and may be lost with an new communication configuration.

The Communication Editor allow to Edit the SCL structure of your project. Be careful, some modifications may make your project invalid (e.g. deleting a Logical Node type).