Pause While Online

Placing the vision system into the Paused state while online is useful when you want to perform changes to In-Sight functions or Vision Tools, or adjust vision system acquisition properties, without taking the vision system offline.

There are a few different methods to set the vision system to paused mode while online.

• From a WebPage, you can add a WebPage Status Online-Pause control element which allows you to toggle between online and paused modes from a Web HMI. In addition, you can also drag-and-drop the $System.OnlineEnableComm, $System.OnlineEnabled, and $System.OnlineEnableDiscrete tags to monitor the state of the system.

• From a PLC, you can monitor the Online and Paused bits via either EtherNet/IP or PROFINET communications protocols. The following table summarizes the mode, $System.OnlineEnabled tag state, and communication protocol status bit state:

  Online/Offline States	$System.OnlineEnabled Tag State	PLC Online Status Bit	PLC Paused Status Bit
  Online	True	True	False
  Online	False	False	True
  Offline	N/A	False	False

• From a discrete input line, you can toggle the online and offline state of the vision system.