EtherCAT slave to slave connection for motion

Hello,

A customer is asking if it's possible for a ctrlX DRIVE and 3rd party motion control to be EtherCAT slaves to ctrlX CORE and have the 3rd party control command cyclic motion to ctrlX DRIVE using slave-to-slave mapping. I know we have slave-to-slave mapping in IO Engineering that we use for FSoE messages, but I don't see a way to do this for motion like the picture below. Although the CORE is involved in passing the data from one slave to another, functionally S-0-0047 would be controlled by an outgoing parameter of the 3rd party control instead of Motion or PLC of CORE. Is there any way to do this?

Best regards,

Brian

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