Does anyone know how the ALARMCOUNTERS parameter works? ( http://www3.emersonprocess.com/Systems/Support/bol113/extfile/dynamics/drw_building_expressions.htm).
When I use the tag browser it won't show me node names so I wind up with a tag that looks like: "Fix32..ALARMCOUNTERS.F_TOT". I have tried manually typing node names (Computer, area, CM).
My end goal is to display counts of each level of alarm by area. I don't want to use "DVSYS.THISUSER/AREAALMCNT[xxx].F_CV" because I don't know what the Area numbers are going to be, and referencing an Area by a number just isn't a pleasant experience for me.
[EDIT[ Using DeltaV 11.3
The ALARMCOUNTERS parameter is a part of the iFix alarm sub-system which DeltaV does not use so it won't give you an actual count of DeltaV alarms.
One possibility of resoving Area names to numbers would be to create a subroutine that would receive the Area name as a passed parameter and then parse through the ANT.SCR file located in the download folder in DVData to convert that to an area number. The structure of the lines in the file is:
ANTI { IT=AreaNumber NAME='AreaName' TYPE=L }
The fourth line has the number of area entries after the SZ= entry.