Uploading Route and Resource Group Tables

You can upload Route or Resource Group table data from the Excel platform using either the PPL Data Query message or the Route Configuration Tool.

This is useful for the following purposes:

• Diagnostics

• Reconstructing tables inadvertently deleted on the host

• Modifying existing tables

Route Configuration Tool

From the Main screen of the Route Configuration Tool, click the Upload button. The Upload Manager screen appears. Enter the IP Address of the Excel platform, the API format, and the Table IDs then click the Start button. The table data is displayed in the text box at the bottom of the window.

PPL Data Query Message

To upload a table, send the PPL Data Query message with the Entity field set to 0x04 (PPL Table). You can retrieve either a portion of a table or the entire table. If the response data cannot be sent by the Excel platform in one message, you must resend the message, incrementing the range, until a response status of 0xD7 is returned. See the PPL Data Query 0x00DE message in the API Reference for data.