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Configuring the HMI system
2.5 Configuring user alarms
HMI Advanced (IM4)
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The alarm and message texts are stored in the MBDDE alarm texts directory.
1.
Convert the old text file to an ANSI text file using "Save As…" in the Windows Editor
(WinWord, Notepad, etc.).
2. Load the new text file and converted old text file into the Windows editor and merge them.
3. Save the newly generated text file and insert it into the directory "MBDDE alarm texts".
See also
MBDDE.INI (Page 298)
2.5.3 Example: Extending an alarm text for user PLC alarms
Overview
Freely definable user texts can be added to user PLC alarms to facilitate evaluation of
diagnostics information when an error has occurred.
Procedure
The following entry is in the configuration file for the alarm server (file MBDDE.INI) in the
section [IndexTextFiles]:
Extract from MBDDE.INI:
[IndexTextFiles]
ALNX=f:\dh\mb.dir\alnx_
ALSI=f:\dh\mb.dir\alsi_
DUMMY=f:\dh\mb.dir\dummy_
1. First of all, the file containing the alarm text extension must be created, or one of the
available ALNX (for extending NCK alarm texts) or ALSI (for extending safety alarm texts)
must be copied and then entered in the section [IndexTextFiles] along with the path.
This is file dummy_gr.com in our example.
000000 0 0 "Valve 1"
000001 0 0 "Valve 2"
000002 0 0 "Valve 3"
000003 0 0 " ... "
000004 0 0 " ... "
The structure is exactly the same as for the alarm text files (with which you are already
familiar), apart from the fact that the parameter value transferred from the PLC is now
what used to be the alarm number.
Auxiliary value Display Help ID Alarm text
000000 0 0 "Valve 1"
000001 0 0 "Valve 2"
000002 0 0 "Valve 3"
000003 0 0 "Valve 4"