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PCSD Dynamo and the Update Dynamo Expert

Has any had any success using the Dynamo Update utility to modify PCSD based Dynamos.  My system is using v. 12.0.0.  I have created a copy of the based dynamo into a new dynamo folder, made sure the original dynamo name and new dynamo name are the same, as well as  changed the FRSDynamoInfo Initial Value and Current Value to reflect the same dynamo name and an updated version.  For instance:

frsDynamoInfo InitialValue/CurrentValue:

Original: "Name: Horizontal Deviationbar Info, Version: 12.0.0"

New: "Name: Horizontal Deviationbar Info, Version: 12.0.1"

However, the dynamo expert does not work properly.

If a create a standard dynamo and name it something close to the naming convention the PCSD library uses, such as "Horizontal Deviationbar Info1, Version: 12.0.0" , create a new dynamo with the same name and a different version number and updated run the utility, the Dynamo updates as expect.   Any thoughts?

• Dynamos Update Utility
• PCSD

mabboud

• 8 Sep 2016 12:30 PM
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• nilesh.chordiya

  

  • 12 Sep 2016 6:41 AM

  PCSD dynamos have not tested with DeltaV Dynamo update utility and thus not sure of the compatibility of this tool with PCSD dynamos.
  There is a separate utility developed by PCSD named "dynamo replacement and bulk edit utility (DRU_BE)". This utility has to be use to update the PCSD dynamos on a process graphics. It is posted on a DeltaV Tools Share Community and is accessible to Emerson engineers only.

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• IntuitiveNeil

  

  • 12 Sep 2016 8:55 AM

  Welcome to my world.
  
  I agree with Nilesh, the standard DRU of DeltaV does not work with PCSD dynamos.
  
  The main issue being that the frsDynamoInfo parameter required by the standard DRU is located down at the lower level of grpSettings in the PCSD dynamos meaning that the standard DRU doesn't see it as a dynamo generated by the standard dynamo creation utility (which expects it at the top level of the dynamo group) and therefore doesn't try and replace it.
  
  Even if that was resolved, it's the tip of the iceberg of your problem, many of the PCSD dynamo characterisation parameters for size, tag, option, alarm option, orientation etc. would not be transferred from the old dynamo to the new dynamo or applied to the new dynamo. Quite problematic.
  
  There are some ways and means to get it working in very simple terms, but that would involve revising the standard DRU VB functions normally hidden away and then you'd be a risk or damaging your DeltaV Operate installation and compromising any support Emerson may offer, which ISN'T recommended.
  
  If you want the easy answer, refer back to your Emerson office and get their engineers to help. Sometimes though Emerson leave a copy of the DRU_BE.tbx, and DynamoReplacementUtility_DRU.tbx toolbox utilities on a clients workstation before shipping a system after it was first engineered at Emerson. Worth checking the \Local folders of your systems workstations.

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• mabboud

  

  • 12 Sep 2016 5:56 PM

  In reply to nilesh.chordiya:

  Thanks for the info. I will contact my Emerson Project Team and see if they have the tool at their disposal.

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