Use recipes in InTouch

You use InTouch QuickScripts to interact with your recipe template files. Recipe Manager includes a set of script functions that can be inserted into QuickScripts. Using scripts containing these functions, you can select, modify, insert, or delete records in your recipe template file.

You add recipe functions to any type of script using the InTouch script editor. The following figure shows the InTouch script editor’s window listing recipe functions. All recipe functions are identified by the prefix Recipe as part of the function name.

InTouch recipe functions read and write directly to the recipe template file. Therefore, the Recipe Manager program does not need to be running in order for the recipe functions to run properly in InTouch QuickScripts.

If the recipe template file is being used by the InTouch HMI, any new recipes you create or any changes you make to existing recipes cannot be written to the recipe template file. Recipe Manager only creates recipe template files. After you create Recipe template files, close Recipe Manager.

Automatically insert a recipe function into a script

1. Open an InTouch script editor.

2. Place the cursor within the script where you want to insert a recipe function.

3. Under Functions, select Add-ons. The Choose function dialog box appears.

4. Select the recipe function that you want to insert into your QuickScript. The dialog box closes and the function is inserted at the cursor position.