Profile Designer / OPC UA Typing

[oliviamorales]

In Profile Designer, you can extend and compose types.

• When you extend a type, you can add attributes and compositions to that type.
• The Objects (compositions) you add can be modified at the root of the object
• Any Objects (compositions) 1 level down cannot be edited

In SiOME you can add attributes and objects to Types and Objects

Goal: Add attributes or objects to member objects such as ProcessObject, which is a Folder in MachineryBuildingBlocks (MBB), but may be another ObjectType in other use cases.

How this can be done:

Static Typing: Create new/extend the type, such as ProcessType, and re-compose the object (Profile Designer)
Dynamic Typing: Add to the Object without changing the underlying Type (SiOME)

Profile Designer enforces a strongly-typed system, while SiOME seems to support more flexibility. I was under the impression that it is meant to be Statically/Strongly Typed, but Dynamic Typing can be much more user friendly.

Overall feature request/Bug Fix: be able to add Objects and Attributes to FolderType at any level (this could be via Extending the partent type, or just adding to the Object instance of the composed type)