It is strongly recommended for Ctrl servers to provide additionally the structured data as a set of sub variables (components of the variable) providing the structure as several separated values. This allows clients that do not support complex data to access the scalar values. The following Figure 24 shows an example (instances based on the above type descriptions).

Figure 24 – Mapping of structure data types to Variable components

If a structure element is not an elementary data type, it has to be divided again into sub variables.

It is recommended that Ctrl servers do support complex data. If a server does not support complex data it provides only sub variables for structure variables. The structured variable would be a Folder object in this case.