Define the initial and final steps

You can instruct Sequencer to begin the program at a specified step, the Initial Step. You can also instruct Sequencer to finish processing after a specified step, the Final Step.

When you deploy the Sequencer object or when the ExecutionStateCmd is set to Reset, Sequencer starts at the Initial step and runs through the remaining steps. If the Final Step is not specified, it runs through Step n and continues at Step 1.

Note: You can change the initial step and final step at run time by writing to the attributes PrgStepInitialCmd and PrgStepFinalCmd. For more information, see Set initial and final steps.

To configure the Step Program to start at a specific step

1. Select the Step Program tab. The Step Program panel appears.

2. From the Initial Step Name list, select the step name where you want to start the processing or enter the name manually.

   

To configure the Step Program to stop after a specific step

3. Select the Step Program tab. The Step Program panel appears.

4. From the Final Step Name list, select the step name you want the processing to stop after (or enter the name manually).