
15–21Creating Alarms
Publication 2711-6.0
Adding Variables to Alarm Text
In the Text field, you enter alarm text including a time, date or
numeric variable. Embedded variables must be within the same scan
group (40 words of the alarm tags).
To insert a time, date, numeric variable in a text string:
1. Double-click the Text field in which you want to insert a variable.
2. Position the cursor where you want to insert the variable.
3. From the popup menu, choose Embedded Variable
Time, Date,
Variable, or ASCII.
For the Time and Date variable, a placeholder is inserted in the
text (/*T*/ for time, /*D*/ for date). The format of the time and date
is set in the Terminal Setup dialog.
A dialog opens when Variable (p. 17–14) or ASCII (p. 17–17) is
selected. The dialog defines the format of the variable in the text
string. When you exit the dialog, a placeholder is inserted within
the text with embedded formatting details.
To edit a numeric or ASCII variable:
1. Double-click the Text field of the alarm containing the variable.
2. Click on the numeric /*V:12 NOFILL FIX:0*/ or ASCII /*A:12 */
variable placeholder.
The embedded data within the placeholder will vary depending
on the options you selected in the Variable dialog.
3. From the popup menu, choose Embedded Variable
Edit Variable.
4. Edit the settings in the Variable dialog.
5. When done, click OK to exit dialog.
The placeholder is updated with the new formatting details.
Important: The tag which updates the numeric or ASCII variable
should be scanned with the alarm trigger.
To delete a variable:
Click on the placeholder and choose Cut from the popup menu, or
press
BACKSPACE or DELETE.
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