Hello guys,

I opened a topic "SFC jumping steps - TwinCAT" yesterday but did not get any answer - also i think it is not possible to jump steps in SFC as i hoped so i need to find a different solution. First what my problem is:
I generate .csv File where lines look like:
"RunningNo";"UTCTimeStamp";"StingInput1";"StringInput2";"StringInput3";"Measuredvalue1";"MeasuredValue2";"MeasuredValue3"

RunningNo is with every line +1;
UTC TimeStamp is time when we measured our Value or when we save a line;
StringInput1 is place of machine or smt where measurement is made;
StringInput2 is name of measurement that is made;
StringInput3 is group of measurement that is made;
Measuredvalue1 is value that we measure.

For this file i measure Errors. I get 1 when error happend and 0 when it is not. Till now i cyclicly measured values - every minute.
Now would i like to save a line ONLY WHEN ERROR HAPPENS - SO WHEN OUR VALUE IS 1 (TRUE).
Ex:
"560";"1542027630";"StingInput5";"Error5";"Stingkey";"1";"";""
"561";"1542027631";"StingInput8";"Error8";"StingKey";"1";"";""
"562";"1542027690";"StingInput9";"Error9";"StingKey";"1";"";""
"563";"1542027750";"StingInput5";"Error5";"StingKey";"1";"";""
"564";"1542027810";"StingInput1";"Error1";"StingKey";"1";"";""

I have 43 different errors that can happen: That is from Error 1 to Error 43.

I generaded .csv til now like SFC - example on picture. LineToWrite is string which i want to write in every line.

So.. Do you have any ide how to save a line only when Error happens?
Since in SFC I can not jump a step i tried to write ST, but i get an Error at FB_FilePuts: ErrorID 1795: invalid index offset.

So does anymody have any idea how to change SFC or what can cause an error at ST at FB_FilePuts? Thank you

Here is example of new code wehre i get an error at FB_FilePuts:

CASE nStep OF
   0: 
      IF rtStart.Q THEN
         bStart := FALSE;
         q_bFinished := FALSE;
         nStep := 1;
      END_IF
      
   1: 
      fbFileOpen(
         sNetId      := '', 
         sPathName   := sPathName, 
         nMode      := (FOPEN_MODEAPPEND OR FOPEN_MODETEXT), 
         ePath      := PATH_GENERIC,  
         tTimeout   := DEFAULT_ADS_TIMEOUT,
         bExecute := TRUE);
      IF NOT fbFileOpen.bBusy THEN 
      fbFileOpen.bExecute := FALSE;
      nStep := 2; 
      END_IF
      
   2:
      IF Error1 THEN
         LineToWrite1_active();
         fbFilePuts(
            sNetId   := '', 
            hFile   := fbFileOpen.hFile, 
            sLine   := CONCAT(sLineToWrite,'$N'),
            bExecute := TRUE);
         IF NOT fbFilePuts.bBusy THEN 
            fbFilePuts.bExecute := FALSE;
            nLineIdex := nLineIdex +1;         
            nStep := 3; 
         END_IF 
      ELSIF NOT Fehler_ST_0010 THEN 
         nStep := 3;
      END_IF
   3:
      IF Error2 THEN
         LineToWrite2_active();
         fbFilePuts(
            sNetId   := '', 
            hFile   := fbFileOpen.hFile, 
            sLine   := CONCAT(sLineToWrite,'$N'),
            bExecute := TRUE);
         IF NOT fbFilePuts.bBusy THEN
            fbFilePuts.bExecute := FALSE;
            nLineIdex := nLineIdex +1;            
             nStep := 4; 
         END_IF 
      ELSIF NOT Fehler_ST_0015_00 THEN 
         nStep := 4;
      END_IF
   4:
      IF Error3 THEN
         LineToWrite2_active();
         fbFilePuts(
            sNetId   := '', 
            hFile   := fbFileOpen.hFile, 
            sLine   := CONCAT(sLineToWrite,'$N'),
            bExecute := TRUE);
         IF NOT fbFilePuts.bBusy THEN
            fbFilePuts.bExecute := FALSE;
            nLineIdex := nLineIdex +1;            
             nStep := 5; 
         END_IF 
      ELSIF NOT Fehler_ST_0020 THEN 
         nStep := 5;
      END_IF
      
   5:
      nStep := 50;
   50: 
      fbFileClose(
         sNetId   := '', 
         hFile   := fbFileOpen.hFile,
         bExecute := TRUE);
      IF NOT fbFilePuts.bBusy THEN 
         fbFileClose.bExecute := FALSE;
         nStep := 60; 
      END_IF 
      
   60:
      q_bFinished := TRUE;
      bStart := FALSE;
      nStep := 0;
      
END_CASE

Hello,

So my solution was parallel bench for every line where transition is RT_TRIG Error1,... I have 43 parallel steps so i took time to do ti but is working. If anyone have quicker solution i would still like to hear it eventhough this is working fine.
Why i had problem a long time is that i did not know what is the difference between alternative and parallel bench. This doc. helped me: https://assets.omron.eu/downloads/manua ... ide_en.pdf m

In general, coders tends to be lazy. If you may reuse some code, then do it. (copy paste edit fails are frequent)
For this code, if "Fehler_ST_0020" is a fault bit, do some code or place it directly in a boolean array.
Then just code your error logging block for each array item in a loop. This will reduce 43 steps in 1 slightly bigger.

That said, you should know that working with files is slow, so opening and closing cyclicaly a file is something I dont recommend.
Maybe you could just open it once, then close it to copy it over some media.

Your ST code error may be dues to severall simultaneous write at a time in your file.