Process history viewer

Hi,

I have a couple of questions, in the process history viewer,  what is ALARMS.MACK / OPERATOR / NEW VALUE = 1 telling me? is it that the alarm mute button has been pressed or that it has been acknowledged by my operator?

also how can I log in the process history viewer when the ACK ALL / SILENCE HORN / DISABLE HORN buttons have been pressed on the alarm banner at the bottom of the screen?

thx in advance

Lee.

  • MACK is the alarm field allowing you to acknowledge all of a module's alarms simultaneously.

    From BOL article "The ALARMS parameter"

    ...0 (NO) is the initial value after download.

    1 (YES) acknowledges all alarm parameters in the next execution cycle and resets to 0....

    To audit clicks of the buttons you cite, the simplest thing you can do is create a module with three parameters, ACKALL, SILENCEHORN, DISABLEHORN, and insert frswritevalue functions in the beginning of each of the scripts for the corresponding alarm banner buttons that sets/resets the parameter value.  This will trigger the event chronicle to record a parameter change when those buttons are pushed.

    I thought there was a way to skip the module and just write an event directly to the chronicle via operate, but I can't seem to find it.

  • In reply to Youssef.El-Bahtimy:

    thank you for the reply Youssef could you point me towards any articles or where to look for advice on writing in the scripts as I have no knowledge of this. Is this to be found in books online?
    thank you.
  • In reply to Lee W.:

    In books Online, there is an article called 'DeltaV-specific VBA functions' in which you'll find frswritevalue. There are several other articles demonstrating examples of its use.

    In DeltaV Operate, under the visual basic editor-->help-->iFix automation help, there is also an article on use of frswritevalue.

    What is equally tricky is that you will have to create a custom alarm banner (because you can't edit the COTs one) and configure your usersettings.grf to use the custom banner.
  • In reply to Youssef.El-Bahtimy:

    Thanks for being such a valuable member of the EE365 Community, Youssef.El-Bahtimy. You Rock!

    Best Regards,

    Rachelle McWright: Business Development Manager, Dynamic Simulation: U.S. Gulf Coast

  • In reply to Rachelle McWright:

    That guy gets a lot of mileage. I used him in a presentation last year. He was saying 'Raise your hands into the air and flail them about as if there were no repurcussions.'