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The alarms trigger ok. The issue is a point 1 in time the first bit of the DINT will represent Fault A with message point to String A but later in time Fault E will trigger the same bit of the DINT but have message pointed to String E. I am using a scan program in the PLC to scanner a larger group of ...

EDIT: moved to Automation Control community -FL I have setup the alarms in ME to have 64 alarms based on 2 DINT tags and used an array of 64 strings for the messages. The PLC scans the possible active alarms and populates these tags based on the first 64 alarms it finds in the priority list. This works ...

I was trying to do this online. The problem with the export tool is that it only exports tags that already have descriptions but does not include the ones that do not have any. I have a UDT from customer that that has a lot of tags to add descriptions to. They also have a few large UDT's that store strings ...

Is there a way to write to the Tag's Description Field via DDE/OPC from excel spreadsheet. I can write the values just not sure if you can write to the tag's description field ------------------------------ JIM TON ------------------------------

One feature that would be of great help would be a scrolling alarm banner that scrolls through active alarms in a small single line banner. This a feature that is very helpful and offered on many of competitors. ------------------------------ JIM TON ------------------------------