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-=== Loading a JavaScript Functions File ===+===== Loading a JavaScript Functions File =====
  
 The load() function allows you to import a file of functions you can use in your script. This file must reside in the same directory where your application is running to be loaded. For MIStudio development this file should be put into the devices folder of the project so it is available at development time as well as used for the deployed project. For TransSECS projects, this file should be put into the resources of the project so it is copied to the deployment.  The load() function allows you to import a file of functions you can use in your script. This file must reside in the same directory where your application is running to be loaded. For MIStudio development this file should be put into the devices folder of the project so it is available at development time as well as used for the deployed project. For TransSECS projects, this file should be put into the resources of the project so it is copied to the deployment. 
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 </code> </code>
  
-==Test in MIStudio==+====Test in MIStudio====
  
 Place the script file where it will be available for testing in MIStudio, into the MIStudio directory. Also put it into the userfiles of the project so it will be deployed with your MIX build. Place the script file where it will be available for testing in MIStudio, into the MIStudio directory. Also put it into the userfiles of the project so it will be deployed with your MIX build.
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  </code>  </code>
  
-This error occurs if the script "test.js" cannot be found. You may need to close and re-open the MIStudio project if you have just added the script to the "devices" directory.+This error occurs if the script "test.js" cannot be found. You may need to close and re-open the MIStudio project if you have just newly added the script.
  
-==Test in TransSECS Devices==+====Test in TransSECS Devices====
  
 TransSECS Devices allows scripts on the incoming message beans. The script can only be tested in the deployed project so copy the test.js into your project's resource directory. Use the PLCTool for testing and select a message bean, such as HostCommandSTART, and enter this script: TransSECS Devices allows scripts on the incoming message beans. The script can only be tested in the deployed project so copy the test.js into your project's resource directory. Use the PLCTool for testing and select a message bean, such as HostCommandSTART, and enter this script:
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 When the host sends the host command "START" this script will be executed. You can make changes to test.js to change what the aTest function calculates and the changes will be in effect in real time (no need to rebuild the project). When the host sends the host command "START" this script will be executed. You can make changes to test.js to change what the aTest function calculates and the changes will be in effect in real time (no need to rebuild the project).
  
-==Notes==+====Notes====
  
-The difference in using load() in the script to add a function compared to entering this same code in the script directly is that the function(s) in the .js file are read from the file each time the script is triggered and executed if called, without any optimizations. This should be a consideration when deploying a script using load(). If the function code is entered in the script and built with the deployment, this code (as well as all the other script code) is JIT compiled at runtime so that optimizations are in effect (so the second time the code is run there is not a delay while the code is loaded and exectuted).+===Loading vs. Script in Application=== 
 + 
 +The difference in using load() in the script to add a function compared to entering this same code in the script directly is that the function(s) in the .js file are read from the file each time the script is triggered and executed if called, without any optimizations. This should be a consideration when deploying a script using load(). If the function code is entered in the script and built with the deployment, this code (as well as all the other script code) is JIT compiled at runtime so that optimizations are in effect (so the second time the code is run there is not a delay while the code is loaded and executed). 
 + 
 +===Referencing Servers in the Project and in the Devices Node=== 
 + 
 +Scripts loaded from the files do not have the internal shortcuts that MIStudio and TransSECS use to reference data sources in the project but these servers can still be used by using "bsf.lookupBean()" with the fully qualified path to the server in the (). As an example, in MIStudio you can access a server in the "Main" application by using "newValue=/Main/ServerName->getIntValue()". In the script loaded using load() this must be done a little differently: 
 + 
 +<code> 
 +server=bsf.lookupBean("/Main/FloatFluxServer"); 
 +newValue=server.getDoubleValue(); 
 +server.setTimebase(2.0); 
 +</code> 
 + 
 +Similarly, if you have added servers to the "Devices" node, these can be accessed using a similar technique: 
 + 
 +<code> 
 +server=bsf.lookupBean("/Devices/DemoServers_Servers/IncrementServer"); 
 +currentValue = sever.getIntValue(); 
 +</code>
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