Documents are exposed as Variables organized in the Documentation folder. In most cases they will represent a product manual, which can exist as a set of individual documents. The “DocumentationFolder is formally defined in Table 22.

Table 22 – Documentation definition

Attribute

Value

BrowseName

Documentation

References

NodeClass

BrowseName

TypeDefinition

DataType

ModellingRule

HasTypeDefinition

ObjectType

FolderType (defined in OPC 10000-5.)

HasComponent

Variable

<DocumentIdentifier>

BaseDataVariableType

ByteString

MandatoryPlaceholder

All documents are transferred as a ByteString. The BrowseName of each Variable will consist of the filename including the extension that can be used to identify the document type. Typical extensions are “.pdf” or “.txt”.