I'm trying to make alarms on my SIS DOs that are specific to the "Output Failure" bit of the BLOCK_ERR. I can get at them individually, but this is grass roots, so I'm trying to import alarms from a spreadsheet where I can look at them all at the same time instead of having to click on literally thousands of them individually to check and set various things, including text for alarm help. I haven't figured out how to get/set the Mask on the Alarm Attribute.
The default SIS module alarms can be difficult or cryptic for the operators, so the goal with this is to have very detailed alarms.
- Bryce H. Elliott, P.E.
Unfortunately they didn't make sure Bulk Edit could pull this information out. Class Instances can't update the mask so if you are using classes then you will only need to check the Class Configuration and then any item that isn't class based.
The information is in the FHX if you choose this method for finding instead, I use Notepad++ as I can do Regular expression to make finding things like this easier. You would search for "MASK=(?!65535\b)\d{1,5}\b" (this finds any that isn't looking at all the bits) and this is what it would look like:
Not ideal but this is the only method to "quickly" go through a database.
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