Define poke modes

The GESRTP Communication Driver has three poke modes for tuning the poking behavior to the PLC.

• Control mode
  This mode preserves the poke order and does not fold Write values. Select this mode when using a device group with control clients such as the InBatch and InControl applications. If you select this mode, the server processes all poked values in the order they are received from a client and does not discard any poke values even when several values are poked to the same item.

• Transition mode
  This is the default poke mode. This mode preserves the poke order but allows folding of poke values in the following way: if the server receives more than one value per item it may discard poke values except for the first, second, and last value for this item.
  Transition mode prevents InTouch sliders from stuttering.

• Full optimization mode
  This mode allows changing the poke order and folding of poke values by poking the last value of a series of pokes to one item only. This minimizes bus traffic and poke duration. Use this mode for high volume pokes such as recipe downloads where the sequence of pokes does not matter.

  Note: Use the full optimization mode to achieve the highest performance. You need to consider your data consistency requirements with respect to poke order and folding.