CustomRecipeEditor is a project designed to demonstrate how to use visualization windows and scripts to implement the features of the Recipe Editor, which is available at runtime. This should be done in cases where a customer requires to edit recipes through a form (not by editing values on the list of recipe items through the Recipe Editor).

A recipe type named Product01 is defined via the Recipe Manager. This recipe type contains 4 items named Param01, Param02, Param03, and Param04. Each item is connected to the corresponding same-named tag defined within the PLC1 device. When loading a stored recipe into the PLC1 device, the value of the respective item is written into these tags. To edit the recipe through visualization windows, one auxiliary tag must be defined for each recipe item (this auxiliary tag is of the same type as the corresponding tag in PLC1). The auxiliary tags are called editing tags. They are defined within the System device with the same names as the tags in PLC1. Each recipe item is connected to the corresponding editing tag. Also, each editing tag is connected to the corresponding Display component located in the EditRecipe_Product01 window. The Display components allow you to edit the values of the recipe items. To show the EditRecipe_Product01 window, click on the Edit Recipe button in the main visualization window (Product01). The EditRecipe_Product01 window can be used to choose a recipe from the list of already stored recipes, edit it, and save it under the specified name. The Product01 window can also be used to load or delete the selected recipe by clicking on the respective buttons.