I would like to ask why it’s taking so much time while Generating differences phase (when transferring project to PLC) even if there is only a small change in the source code. It’s happenning when there is some mapp components in project like: mappView, mappMotion or mappCockpit (or maybe also another - haven’t tested).
It doesn’t matter if it’s real hw (we have 5APC2200.AL18-000) or simulation. Always too slow.
I’m using AS4.11.6.26, mappView 5.24.1, mappMotion 5.24.1, mappCockpit 5.24.3 and F4.92 runtime.
Every small change I wanna transfer taking too much time and it really slow down me.
Do you have any suggestion how to speed up that or is there any reasonable explanation for that?
Here is some sort of explanation:
If you modified your project, Automation Studio needs to determine which files differ from your target. Technically this means that each file on the target is inspected and compared with the file of the project. This allows Automation Studio to only transfer actually changed files.
If you have a project without mapp you usually have only a few files on the target - which means this check is rather quick. If you however have mapp, e.g. mapp View in use, this can take a longer time, as in most cases you have much more files. Especially a mapp View HMI has usually a lot of files …
I think there is no real possibility to speed this up - the only thing is, if possible at all, to reduce the number of files.