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# Dialog - Automatic generation

By selecting groups and/or external variables with [Service recording](/acron-9.3/en/anlagenkonfiguration/prozessanbindung/provider/providerid/variablengruppe/register_serviceaufzeichnung.md) enabled, you can create new entities with associated cyclic actions below the active selection in the main tree. The identification and name of these new entities and actions are formed on the basis of the identification of the selected external variable. The name of the external variable serves as a description of the entity and action.

Choose 'Entity template' and/or 'Action template' to select an entity or an action as a template. The generated entity or action adopts all the settings of the template (Exception: Process data linkage - here, logically, the selected external variables are still entered).

Note

The external variable is entered as an allocation according to the variable type:

* for [binary value](/acron-9.3/en/anlagenkonfiguration/prozessanbindung/provider/providerid/variablengruppe/register_serviceaufzeichnung.md#binaerwert) in case of [Elapsed time](/acron-9.3/en/anlagenkonfiguration/service/betrachtungseinheit/register_allgemein.md#laufzeit) and [Switching cycles](/acron-9.3/en/anlagenkonfiguration/service/betrachtungseinheit/register_allgemein.md#schaltspiele)
* for [Elapsed time counter](/acron-9.3/en/anlagenkonfiguration/prozessanbindung/provider/providerid/variablengruppe/register_serviceaufzeichnung.md#laufzeitzaehler) in case of elapsed time
* for [Switching cycle counter](/acron-9.3/en/anlagenkonfiguration/prozessanbindung/provider/providerid/variablengruppe/register_serviceaufzeichnung.md#schaltspielzaehler) in case of switching cycles

Note

If the identifier of an external variable is changed, the process data linkage of the assigned process variable is automatically adapted. Other changes, such as to the name or the data recording range, are not applied.


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