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4.3.8 Messages
This feature allows messages to be sent, by job action (
), to the display, to a specified group or to all
groups. Messages can also be included in e-mails (Options manual, section 11) if the relevant option is fitted. The
messages are of the form: Date, Time, Message. The message can be just text (up to 80 characters), or it can include
up to nine embedded items which are typed into the message as {1} to {9}. The embedded values represented by {1}
to {9} are selected from picklists.
If a Group-destination message contains more characters than can be displayed on the screen (depends on recorder
model), the right-hand part of the message is invisible to the user. The message appears in full in the
when Review Software is used. Display-destination messages are always fully visible.
MESSAGE ENTRY
The message configuration page is shown below in figure 4.3.8 The page is accessed from the Root menu/Operator/
Config menu.
Figure 4.3.8 Message entry configuration page.
CONFIGURABLE PARAMETERS
Message Number
Select the required message from the picklist.
Message
Enter the message by using the pop-up keyboards (section 3.1.1)
Replace {n} with
A picklist allowing the user to select data to be embedded in the message:
Source Descriptor: The descriptor of the source which triggers the job message.
Source Value: The instantaneous value of the source at trigger time.
Source Alarm Data: Details (see table 4.3.8) of the source alarm at message trigger time.
Message Number
Message
Replace {1} with
Replace {2} with
Replace {3} with
{3} source
Replace {4} with
{4} source
Replace {5} with
Select: Embedding source
Replace {6} with
1) The value of
The value of {1} = {2} & {3} = {4}, {5}
Source Descriptor
Source Value
Totaliser 1
Specified Descriptor
Totaliser 1
Specified Value
Config Revision
Blank
Select point whose
descriptor, value etc. is
to be inserted
Select Message number
for configuration
Apply Discard
Table 4.3.8 Alarm details
versus alarm type
Note: If any of 'Source Descriptor', 'Source Value' or 'Source Alarm Data' are embedded in a message which is
triggered by a job which cannot be associated with a specific source (e.g. event, timer), then the embedded
value will be: ?????.
(Continued)
Absolute
Enable, Type (high or low), Threshold, Status
Deviation
Enable, Type (in or out), Reference, Deviation, Status
Rate of change Enable, Type (rise or fall), Amount, Change time, Status
Alarm Type
Embedded details
