As stated in the previous section, the organizational units in Logix are tasks, programs, and routines. The following diagram illustrates the one-to-many relationships within a Logix project organization:
As the preceding diagram illustrates, Logix Designer is only capable of opening a single project at a time. A project can contain multiple tasks, a task can contain multiple programs, and programs can contain multiple routines.
In the following section, we will introduce our first organizational unit type—controller tasks.
Learning about controller tasks
A task is the most foundational and powerful organizational unit in the Logix platform. When we create a new project in Logix, we are provided with a single task that runs all of our logic. Also, up to this point, we have only used a single task to develop our application. It is possible to add multiple tasks to...