See also: Skill Data Points in the Xentara user manual

A data point element defines a skill data point by configuring its type and input/output memory locations. Each input/output memory location addresses a chunk of memory in a cifX communication channel memory area based on its type, memory area number, offset and optionally bit number.

Accessing Data Point Elements

See also: Accessing Xentara Elements in the Xentara user manual

Data point elements have the following members:

Attributes

key	The data point’s primary key.
name	The data point’s name. The name is the last component of the primary key.
UUID	The unique UUID of the data point.
type	The data point’s element type. For cifX data points, this is always “cifX data point”.
category	The data point’s category. For cifX data points, this is always “data point”.
value	The value of the data point.
quality	The quality of the current value. This attribute is not available for write only data points.
error	The last read error. This attribute is not available for write only data points.
changeTime	The last time the value has changed. This attribute is not available for write only data points.
updateTime	The last time the value was updated. This attribute is not available for write only data points.
writeError	The last write error. This attribute is not available for read only data points.
writeTime	The last time the value was written. This attribute is not available for read only data points.

Supported Data Types

The data point supports the following data types:

Data Type	Description
bit	Boolean value (true or false)
uint8	unsigned 8-bit integer
uint16LE	unsigned 16-bit integer with little-endian byte order
uint16BE	unsigned 16-bit integer with big-endian byte order
uint32LE	unsigned 32-bit integer with little-endian byte order
uint32BE	unsigned 32-bit integer with big-endian byte order
uint64LE	unsigned 64-bit integer with little-endian byte order
uint64BE	unsigned 64-bit integer with big-endian byte order
int8	signed 8-bit integer
int16LE	signed 16-bit integer with little-endian byte order
int16BE	signed 16-bit integer with big-endian byte order
int32LE	signed 32-bit integer with little-endian byte order
int32BE	signed 32-bit integer with big-endian byte order
int64LE	signed 64-bit integer with little-endian byte order
int64BE	signed 64-bit integer with big-endian byte order
float32LE	32-bit floating point with little-endian byte order
float32BE	32-bit floating point with big-endian byte order
float64LE	64-bit floating point with little-endian byte order
float64BE	64-bit floating point with big-endian byte order