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How to capture operator comments.

I am in the process of automating a system with DeltaV Batch.  While going through the operator interface with one of the operators, he asked if there was a way to capture the comments that they can put in along with Boolean prompts and operator selected state changes.  What I'd like to be able to do is to copy the comment string while the phase is still active and copy the string into an input parameter in a separate control module.  Then I can work the string in the control module into the Operate graphics for the operators.  I've looked and cannot find where the string from those comments go.  I know that they are saved since they end up in the Batch Event Journal but that is not a convenient place for the operators to make use of them.  Can anyone point me to where I can find the strings that have those comments in them?

Thanks!

Kent

• 14 Jun 2021 2:41 PM
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• vmvmhatre

  

  • 14 Jun 2021 4:48 PM

  Check 35nn request (or 3500) can be used for operator prompt that will store operator response (string entry) in phase parameter PROMPT_STRING.

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• Kent

  

  • 14 Jun 2021 5:36 PM

  Thanks.  I’ll look at it.

   

  Kent E Mitchell, P.E.
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• Matt Stoner

  

  • 14 Jun 2021 7:07 PM

  Operator entered comments on prompts from the Batch Executive only go into the Batch Event Journal and you can't see/use them from within the controller.
  
  What are the comments going to be used for? You may have to design something specifically for that and they don't enter these comments in the boolean batch prompt but somewhere else (i.e. another prompt of string type).

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• Kent

  

  • 14 Jun 2021 9:01 PM

  Thanks!  They were just thinking that it could be good for information transfer between shifts on a given batch.  When I was showing the initial work on the operator interface, they asked if it was possible to do this.

   

  If I go with a second question to get comments, can I make the comments not be present when they give the Boolean response?  It would be less confusing at 2:00 in the morning if there is only one  place to put comments in.

   

  Kent E Mitchell, P.E.
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• Kent

  

  • 14 Jun 2021 10:23 PM

  Matt,

   

  Based on what you said, one option would be to paste in a copy of the Batch Event Journal object and shrink it down to fit.  I could limit the number of columns and filter to just get the parts the operators need to see.  Is there a way to make that object automatically get the most recent batch in the list or will they have to browse for it every time?

   

  Thanks again

   

  Kent E Mitchell, P.E.
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