SCENARIO 1: Embed an alarm list in an overview diagram

SCENARIO 1: Embed an alarm list in an overview diagram

Before you perform the procedure, read the scenario description.

Before you go through this procedure, you must open the Demo configuration and create a new area called NewInThisVersion.

Create a diagram called PlantsOverview and do the following:

Select the Name to menu check box to allow operators to choose it in the Diagram menu
Click OK to close the dialog box.

Go to the Plants area.
Select the three buttons referring to the diagrams: Beverage, Dairy and Power and press CTRL + C to copy.
Go back to the PlantsOverview diagram and press CTRL + V to paste the three buttons.
Do the following:

Move the three buttons to the top of the diagram and distribute them horizontally.
Create a text box to the left of the buttons named Plants (the area name). Use the Font and Color toolbars to make the text larger and apply a blue color.
Hold down the CTRL button and resize the overview diagram so that it takes up approx. the top 30 % of the screen. If you don’t hold down the CTRL button, the buttons will be resized as well.

Right-click the diagram and select Properties.

Clear the Title bar check box (we don’t want the diagram to take up too much space)
Click OK to close the dialog box.

Go to the Plants area to copy one of the three diagrams. In real life, we would of course copy all three diagrams.
Go to the Dairy diagram, select all objects and press CTRL + C to copy.
Go to the NewInVersion5 area and open the newly created PlantsOverview diagram. Double-click the Dairy button.
In the Edit menu, choose Paste Special and do the following:

Select the References option.
Clear the two check boxes, Automatically rename conflicting object names and Paste report formats.
Click OK to paste the objects.

Resize the diagram to fit the lower portion of the screen. Hold down the CTRL button while resizing to preserve the proportions of the contents of the diagram.
Select View ® Drawing toolbar. Click the alarm list descriptor icon - $images\ico_drw_almlist.gif$ – and point to a position just below the diagram buttons.
Resize the alarm list to fit within the overview diagram.

Right-click the alarm list, choose Properties and do the following:

Change the order of the columns in the list by dragging and dropping the field names in this order: Object name, Alarm number, Alarm text, Priority, Start date, Start time, Acknowledge time, End time. If the field does not have a * in the Active column, right-click the field and choose Activated.

Select the Sort order option and do the following:

Drag the field Acknowledge date to the top of the list.
Change the sort order of the fields Acknowledge time and Priority to descending order by right-clicking the field and choosing Sort descending.

In the Filters area, click the Add button and do the following:

In the Filter name box, type Plants area.
In the Edit condition area, select Area name ® Is exact ® Plants.
Click the Add button to apply the condition. In this case, we will just add this one condition, but you can apply several conditions and combine them using either Or or And.
Click OK to close the dialog box.

This is a local filter defined for this alarm list descriptor only. You can also click the Import button to import filters defined in the Alarm program.

Select the Default check box to apply this filter as default when running the configuration. If several filters had been defined, the operator would be able to select other filters.
Select the Save as template check box to make the current settings active when you insert a new alarm list descriptor.
Click OK to close the dialog box.

The embedded alarm list is now complete and ready for use.

In the Format menu, select Set Initial Display to make the current screen the start screen of the area.
Install and start the configuration.

21 Go to the NewInThisVersion area.

A communication alarm will occur in the embedded alarm list.