I have been tasked with determing if there is a way to export data from our Delta V DCS to fill out a report with the following information.
ag Configuration
I of course would prefer to export it to an excel file or csv. I've tried to print it to Document writer but even using just the Quick config filter there is way too much info being printered to hand edit and get the report back out in a timely fashion. We have well over a thousand Tags per Unit and three Units.
I see in the filtering options that that ther is a user defined option but hav not been able to learn how to define those options.
Thanks
The System Alarm Management application is found under 'Applications' in the top menu bar of the DeltaV Explorer. SAM as it is known has an option to Print to XML, which can then be brought into Excel. It has all the information you identified above except for #4, the engineering units and range.
Someday I hope to see that added to SAM, and have placed it on the long term product roadmap. In fact, if you are willing, I'd like you to request "Add engineering units and range to SAM" in the User Driven Enhancement Program at www.userideas-emerson.com
Lastly, I do have a fmt file that gets the engineering data also, which I could email you, but it's not as good as you might expect. When extractng data about alarms using an fmt, the fmt must specify all the expected alarm names (e.g. HI_ALM) and specify all the expected function block names (e.g. AI1) to extract the engineering units and conditionng values. In most systems there are user defined alarm names and odd named block names that result in incomplete results. If you want it anyway, send me an email. The fmt has hundreds of columns corresponding to a multitude of typical alarm names.
Kim