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Bulk Configuration of Property Issue

Greetings,

I am currently editing the "Primary Control Display" parameter, and I originally edited in 12 spaces (the default "blank") in order to leave the parameter blank as is standard for most parameters. Instead of resulting in an empty parameter, the Bulk Import resulted in "Primary Control Display" being filled with 12 spaces. I have tried subsequent imports (<>, a single space, nothing, etc.) and the import either overwrites the spaces with the text <>,<NULL>,etc. or leaves the spaces if I import using empty cells (no import error strangely). While this is not critical, and I can manually delete the spaces (~100 modules), I would like to know why this parameter behaves differently than usual, and if there is a way to overwrite an existing entry with a blank besides using 12 spaces.

• deltav bulk edit import configuration

Algis Marcinkevicius

• 7 Mar 2017 1:11 PM
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• Pieter Degier

  

  • 7 Mar 2017 9:06 PM

  Hi,
  
  When using bulk configuration, the last column in the bulk configuration data file must have a value. If there is no value DeltaV add an extra character ‘carriage return’ in that field.
  I usually put the version field as last field in the bulk configuration file to prevent this.
  
  See KBA AP-0800-0140 for more details on this issue.

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• Chris Hoffpauir

  

  • 7 Mar 2017 9:59 PM

  In reply to Pieter Degier:

  Agree. We usually put the Module ScanTime as the last field in a user defined import since we observed import issues if the last field was non-integer (in earlier versions of DeltaV).

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• Algis Marcinkevicius

  

  • 8 Mar 2017 12:49 PM

  In reply to Chris Hoffpauir:

  Thanks for the responses Chris and Pieter,
  All of my imports thus far have included ScanTime as the last field of the import, so whatever the cause, I do not believe it is because the last field was non-integer. Some additional info, there are no issues with the import itself, neither warnings or errors. The parameter is simply not being overwritten by a null value.

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