Imagine that you have an OPC server (SRV1) with a boolean tag and two clients reading this tag in async mode (CL1 and CL2).

CL1 use the value of the tag (using the OnChange event) to set a string tag of another OPC server (Prosys Provider – SRV2).

The CL2 have the tag in SRV1 and the one in SRV2 configured with the Onchange event for both. Lot of times the CL2 client reachs the event of the tag in SRV2 (which depends on the change of the value of the tag in SRV1) before the event of the tag in SRV2.

The question is clear: why? because the logic says that if to change the tag in SRV2 you need that the tag in SRV1 change, you always detect first the change of SRV1 tag and after the change of SRV2 tag. But the reality doesn’t seem to be this way

The problem is that, in CL2, I have the string tag changed and if I try to evaluate the value of the SRV1 tag I read an incorrect value because the tag value hasn’t change yet.

Attempting to avoid this behavior, I try to force the SRV2 connector to refresh the values (Refresh) in the CL2 when the string tag change. I have the same problem and I don’t know why. Is the Refresh function really force the client to read the server’s tags ? Is there a type of read cache ?