SYS600 - Pipeline Operation
SYS600 - Pipeline Operation
SYS600 - Pipeline Operation
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Contents
1 Copyrights ............................................................................................. 7
2 Introduction ........................................................................................... 9
2.1 This manual .................................................................................. 9
2.2 Use of symbols ............................................................................. 9
2.3 Intended audience ........................................................................ 9
2.4 Related documents ....................................................................... 10
2.5 Document conventions ................................................................. 10
2.6 Document revisions ...................................................................... 10
3 Overview ................................................................................................ 11
3.1 Getting started .............................................................................. 11
3.1.1 Login ............................................................................... 11
3.1.2 Logout ............................................................................. 12
3.1.3 Time based logout .......................................................... 12
3.1.4 Time-based logout after inactivity ................................... 12
3.2 Application displays ...................................................................... 13
3.3 Process Displays .......................................................................... 14
3.3.1 Controlling the process ................................................... 15
3.3.2 Adding Process Display Notes ....................................... 16
3.3.3 Adding a comment to an object ...................................... 19
3.3.4 Renaming Process Display ............................................. 21
3.4 Monitor Pro layout ......................................................................... 21
3.4.1 Specifying toolbars ......................................................... 22
3.4.2 Changing application layout ............................................ 23
3.4.3 Resetting Layout ............................................................. 31
3.5 Using process lists ........................................................................ 31
3.6 Using reports and trends .............................................................. 32
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1 Copyrights
The information in this document is subject to change without notice and should not be
construed as a commitment by ABB Oy. ABB Oy assumes no responsibility for any
errors that may appear in this document.
In no event shall ABB Oy be liable for direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential
damages of any nature or kind arising from the use of this document, nor shall ABB Oy
be liable for incidental or consequential damages arising from the use of any software
or hardware described in this document.
This document and parts thereof must not be reproduced or copied without written
permission from ABB Oy, and the contents thereof must not be imparted to a third party
nor used for any unauthorized purpose.
The software or hardware described in this document is furnished under a license and
may be used, copied, or disclosed only in accordance with the terms of such license.
Copyright © 2015 ABB Oy. All rights reserved.
Trademarks
ABB is a registered trademark of ABB Group. All other brand or product names
mentioned in this document may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective
holders.
Guarantee
Please inquire about the terms of guarantee from your nearest ABB representative.
Third Party Copyright Notices
List of Third Party Copyright notices are documented in "3rd party licenses.txt" and
included in SYS600 and DMS600 installation packages.
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2 Introduction
Although warning hazards are related to personal injury, and caution hazards are
associated with equipment or property damage, it should be understood that operation
of damaged equipment could, under certain operational conditions, result in degraded
process performance leading to personal injury or death. Therefore, comply fully with
all warnings and caution notices.
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3 Overview
This chapter introduces the SYS600 user interface functions. All application areas and
functions described in this manual are not necessarily covered by every customer's
application. Likewise, this manual may not describe every application functionalty a
customer may have, because the functionality of individual applications is designed
according to the needs of each customer.
Clicking Close in the Login dialog closes the Login dialog, but leaves the Monitor Pro
still running.
3.1.1 Login
To login, select an application from the Application drop-down list or click on the Process
Display view if Monitor Pro is running. Type the user name and password into the
corresponding fields and click Login.
Each user is associated with a certain user profile defined by the system manager. For
more information, see SYS600 Application Design.
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If the user name and the password do not match or the user name does not exist, the
Login dialog is displayed again and login may be attempted again. Each attempt to login
is registered by the system, even those that fail.
If login is successful, the first display is shown on the screen (if one has been defined in
the Application Settings dialog). All the operations subsequently performed on the
Monitor Pro are related to the authority profile associated with the user name. The user
name is also included as an identifier in the event register when certain manual operations
are performed.
3.1.2 Logout
In Monitor Pro, logout means that the current user name and user authority are cleared.
The options for logout are:
• Selecting Main > Logout.
• Closing the Monitor Pro by selecting Main > Exit.
• Automatic time based logout executed by Monitor Pro.
• Changinh the SYS600 application state from HOT to WARM or COLD.
• The SYS600 OPC DA server or service is stopped.
An automatic logout is done after a certain time period (for example 8 hours). The logout
duration is defined in the User Account Management tool. The values are application
specific. After time based logout, the user must login again via the Login dialog.
Users with appropriate permissions can set a timeout threshold for idle sessions. If there
is no interaction between the user and the product on application level (no user activity
or commands) for the configured time, the session is discarded and the user must
re-authenticate before the next interaction.
Logout duration after inactivity can be configured in the User Account Management
tool.
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The same definitions are available for logout duration after inactivity as for logout
duration (notify messages/closing Monitor Pro when logout occurs).
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Figure 3.4 is an example of a station Process Display in a single line diagram form. The
power processes can generally be shown in the Process Display in different presentations.
The presentation to be used is selected when the Process Displays are configured. For
more information about the colors used in Process Display, see Section 4.6 Color Setting
Tool.
The primary devices can be interacted through the control dialogs accessed from the
Process Display, see Figure 3.5. Only users in certain user groups are allowed to execute
control operations.
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The user can switch between the main view and the advanced
view by clicking the >> and << buttons in the upper right hand
corner of a Control dialog.
A Process Display Note can be added to a Process Display to point out important
information, for example a line that is under construction. The Process Display Note
comments can be freely edited (i.e. added, deleted, moved) without it affecting the actual
process.
To add a Process Display Note, select Tools > Notes and select the color for the comment.
The colors should be used according to the importance of the comment.
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The Process Display Note object is created on the center of the visible display. It can be
moved into the right place with the mouse.
To write a comment:
1. Click the Process Display Note object. A Process Display Note dialog is displayed.
2. Type a comment to the Note box.
3. Click OK.
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Add new links by browsing the file should be linked to the comment. Click Open to
open the linked file. For example, if the linked file is a .txt file, it is opened from the
Process Display Note Links dialog in Windows Notepad.
Remove the links by selecting the corresponding link and clicking Remove....
A comment can be written for an object, for example a circuit breaker. The comment is
displayed for all users who open the control dialog of the same object. The comment is
independent of the display file where the object is presented. User name and edit time
are also stored for the comment.
If a comment has been added to an object, it is displayed when the control dialog is
opened, see Figure 3.9.
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To add a comment:
1. Click the information symbol ( ) in the control dialog to open the dialog, see
Figure 3.10.
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The Customize dialog can also be opened by right-clicking the Process Display name,
and selecting Customize from the context menu.
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Toolbars can be added and removed by right-clicking the existing toolbar, docking area
or standard menu, and selecting or clearing the checked commands from the context
menu.
By default, Monitor Pro has just a small set of visible prebuilt toolbars. Each user can
modify the layout of Monitor Pro to correspond to their requirements. The layout
modifications are saved at logout. At the next login, the user's default layout is loaded
in the application. By default, Monitor Pro loads and hides some of the toolbars and
menus depending on the current display. For example, if the Event Display is displayed,
both the Event Display menu and Event Display toolbars are loaded.
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Toolbar visibility and position are display specific. For example, if the user moves the
alarm row to a certain position in Process Display, it will not affect the alarm row position
in Event Display.
Display the Customize dialog by double-clicking any empty space on the toolbar area
of Monitor Pro. The little arrows in the toolbars can also be used to customize toolbars,
commands or options. The Customize dialog can also be selected in Settings > Customize
(see Figure 3.13).
The Customize dialog can be used to:
• Add, reset, rename and delete custom toolbars. Old menu items can be deleted and
renamed, but new ones cannot be added. Some menu items (for example the ones
in Process Display menu) and some toolbars (for example the buttons in application
specific toolbar) are not customizable because their contents is dynamic. For example,
the contents of Process Display Toolbar are generated based on the files found in a
certain folder.
• Change the Command Context menu's caption and style. The Command Context
menu is another way to customize. It is displayed when the Customize dialog is
open and the toolbar is right-clicked. The styles can be changed to:
- Default Style: Contains both text and icon, if available
- Text Only: Only text (caption of tool) is shown
- Image Only: Only the icon is displayed, if available
- Image and Text: Contains both text and icon, if available
• Categorize the action tools and drag-and-drop commands to any toolbar, menu or
submenu.
• Change the icon size in Monitor Pro.
• Create keyboard shortcuts.
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Figure 3.13: Command context menu while the Customize dialog is open.
When the Customize dialog is open, the toolbar buttons and menu items can be moved
around. If the CTRL key is held down while moving the tool, the tool is copied.
The last button on the right of each toolbar is a little arrow button. This quick
customization shortcut allows the user to show or hide tools from the toolbar without
opening the Customize dialog (see Figure 3.14).
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The buttons can also be moved between toolbars without opening the Customize dialog.
This can be done by holding down the ALT key and dragging the buttons to another
location. Buttons can be deleted by dragging them away from the toolbar. Pressing
CTRL+ALT while moving the button copies the button. This function is not possible
for menu items without the Customize dialog.
All the toolbars and menus can be shown or hidden without the Customize dialog by
right-clicking the main menu bar and selecting or deselecting the toolbars (see
Figure 3.15). The user has access to different toolbars according to the display in use
(see Table 3.1). For the Process Display, Alarm Display, Event Display, Blocking Display
or Trends Display and full screen mode there are different configurations depending on
which toolbars are shown.
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Display Toolbars
Graphical View Menu Bar
Alarm Row
Trends Display
Trends Graphical Mode
Navigate
Process Displays
Zoom
Main
Tabular View Menu Bar
Alarm Row
Trends Display
Trends Tabular View
Navigate
Process Displays
Main
Measurement Reports
Graphical View Menu Bar
Alarm Row
Measurement Reports Display
Measurement Reports Graphical View
Navigate
Process Displays
Zoom
Main
Tabular View Menu Bar
Alarm Row
Measurement Reports Display
Measurement Reports Tabular View
Navigate
Process Displays
Main
When the user selects a toolbar they have created, the Rename and Delete buttons
become active. The created toolbar can be renamed or deleted. Clicking the Undo button
loads the last saved layout.
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New keyboard shortcuts can be added for menu items and toolbars seen in the Categories
section.
Categories:
• Built-in Menus: All the top-level menus
• Start with characters mi: All menus that have sub-menus
• Start with characters tb: All toolbars (except the user defined toolbars created with
Customize dialog)
Commands:
• Sub menu items and buttons of the selected category
To assign a new value to the tool (menu item, button in the toolbar):
1. In the Categories section, select the category in which the menu item or toolbar
buttons are located.
2. In the Commands section, select the command (menu item, buttons in the toolbar).
3. Click the New shortcut key box so that the mouse cursor blinks in it and press the
new shortcut key combination. The key combination is displayed in the box.
4. Click Assign, and the shortcut key appears in the Current Keys section.
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The shortcut key can be deleted by clicking Remove.... Clicking Reset All resets the
shortcut keys.
In the Commands tab of the Customize dialog, categories and commands are the same
as in Toolbars tab (see Figure 3.18).
The Commands can be moved around the same way as on the Toolbars tab. Clicking
Modify Selection corresponds to the function when a toolbar button or menu item is
right-clicked (when the Customize dialog is open) and a similar context menu is displayed.
The Modify Selection button becomes active when a tool is selected either from the
menu or from the toolbar.
Personalized menus can be selected into use in the Options tab (see Figure 3.19).
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Only the most recently used menus are visible. The memory of the menu usage can be
cleared by clicking Reset usage data. Menu animations can be selected or the size of
icons changed in the Other field.
Alarm row
The Alarm row provides a quick notification of an alarming event in the system. The
advantage is that it can be noticed easily, and it also instantly tells the operator what has
happened and where. With the alarm row the alarms can easily be acknowledged. Display
the alarm row by selecting it on the Toolbar tab.
The alarm row shows all the unacknowledged active and inactive alarms in the system.
The latest alarm is shown on the top of the list. Any of the alarms shown on the list can
be selected to be acknowledged.
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The user authorization level has to be at least Control (1) before alarms can be
acknowledged (the Alarm row uses authorization group ALARM_HANDLING). For
more information, see SYS600 Application Design.
On the Alarm row, active and inactive alarms are separated by showing the alarm text
in parentheses (Alarm) if the alarm is inactive. Thereafter, the date and time of the alarm
and the object text of the alarming object are presented.
Status bar
The Status bar shows the SYS600 version number, Base system Node Name, (system
name) and the current date and time.
To reset the layout, select Settings > Reset Layout. This action restores the layout from
either the previously saved layout or the installation default layout, see Figure 3.21.
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4 Process controlling
4.1 Navigating
The user can flexibly navigate between the Process Displays and within a Process Display.
Navigate between the different Process Displays by:
• selecting Main > Open
• clicking a shortcut on the Process Displays toolbar.
• clicking Go to Previous Display or Go to Next Display in the View Info toolbar.
• clicking elements in a Process Display.
When a certain element in a Process Display is clicked, a predefined area of a
different Process Display is shown.
• using menu commands and toolbar buttons.
Define the needed menu commands and toolbar buttons for navigating to a predefined
area of a different Process Display.
• locating an object in the Event, Alarm or Blocking display.
To locate the object, right-click on a selected line to open a shortcut menu and select
Locate object in Monitor Pro or Locate object in Monitor Pro - new window.
Navigate within displays by:
• using the Save/Restore Zoom dialog.
Use this dialog for zooming to predefined locations.
• clicking elements in a Process Display.
When a certain element in a Process Display is clicked, a predefined area of the
same Process Display is shown.
• using menu commands and toolbar buttons.
Define the needed menu commands and toolbar buttons for navigating to a predefined
area of the same Process Display.
• using the mouse to grab and pan the view by clicking Select Panning button on the
Zoom toolbar.
• using Flicks with touch screen.
By default with Back and Forward Flicks the navigation of Displays occurs. The
defaults can be changed in Windows Control Panel – Pen and Touch.
The Navigate menu shows 5 of the previously used displays (with a preconfiguration).
This information is stored to the user-specific ini-file and is available on next login.
4.2 Zooming
Zoom Monitor Pro by selecting Navigate > Zoom... The zooming options are displayed
as a submenu of the Zoom command, see Figure 4.1.
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It is possible to save application and user specific zoom areas with the Save/Restore
Zoom dialog, see Figure 4.3. Open the Save/Restore Zoom dialog either by clicking
the icon in the Zoom tool bar, see Figure 4.2 or from the main tool bar, select Navigate
> Zoom > Save/Restore Zoom, see Figure 4.1.
Open the Save/Restore Zoom dialog, enter a name for the zoom in the Save zoom field,
select either the Application or User radio button and click Save.
The user can also:
• create a new folder in the tree structure
• delete a folder in the tree structure
• rename items in the tree structure
• drag and drop items in the tree structure
• define filters for specific items to be displayed
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The saved zoom can be seen in the Restore zoom field. The list of saved zooms can be
filtered using the All, Application and User radio buttons.
To restore a saved zoom, select the zoom name the Restore zoom field, and click Restore.
To delete a zoom, select the zoom name the Restore zoom field, and click Delete.
To save zoomed views for the current session, select the Temporary tab, at the top of
the Save/Restore Zoom dialog. All zooms saved here will be lost on closing the current
session.
4.3 Find
Objects within the display can be found and zoomed in on using the Find function on
the toolbar, see Figure 4.4.
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Searches can be made using the Object name, or part of it, the Logical name (LN) or
Index (IX). Select the required object from the search result and click Show to display.
To change the zoom level, select the value from Zoom level, then click Show to display
the object, see Figure 4.5.
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The station control dialog shows the operator location information. The dialog shows if
the control is authorized from the station locally or from remote control center. The
possible options and their availability depend on the station type and the current process
state.
Change the control location by selecting the desired operator location radio button and
confirming the action in the following dialog.
Figure 4.7: Confirmation dialog for changing the control location to station
The messages tab shows the state of the object and other possible messages affecting
the current object. In the example Figure 4.8, messages can be seen on the left side of
the dialog.
The Blockings tab shows the blockings affecting the current station. In the example,
control and events are blocked for the station object. Alarm is blocked on at least on one
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object belonging to that station. This partial blocking can be seen from the grayed
background of alarm checkbox.
To change the blockings:
• Change the states of checkboxes to block or unblock desired actions
• Click Apply to activate the changes.
Cancel will clear any selections made and refresh the status from the process database.
Click Refresh to force the blocking status refresh from the process database.
The alarms tab shows the current alarms affecting the station. If the station object itself
is in alarming state, it will be shown in the list, but the alarm list also shows all the
alarming signals under the station.
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Update Process Data updates the process database from the actual process for the selected
station. Update Process Data... can be used to initialize the substation after system
restart or a communication break, or to verify that the process databases matches the
process state.
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The equipment group L/R Switch behaves like the station L/R switch. The control
operations are the same, but the blocking, alarms and data updates are done only at the
group level (not for the whole station as with Station L/R Switch). For control instructions
and description of the different elements, see Section 4.4.1 Station L/R Switch .
Control dialogs Pump, Valve, Fan, Compressor and Motor Control all behave the same
way and can be used to view and control the current state of the device. The available
functions found in the control dialog depend on the application and process object
configuration:
• In basic mode (the default opening mode for most of the dialogs), only the object
identification, status and control buttons are shown.
• In the advanced mode, the object status and control button are shown on the left
side.
Object status messages show information concerning the process object, for example
object state, whether the pump is running or not, or whether the process object is simulated
in the MicroSCADA process database and is not showing the current process state. The
right side of the dialog shows other information and controls depending on the selected
tab.
To start or stop the Pump, click the Pump Start ... or Pump Stop ... button and confirm
the operation in the confirmation dialog after the action button is clicked. Similar
operations are available for all other control dialogs.
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4.4.3.1 Blockings
The Blocking tab of the Control dialog shows the different blockings concerning the
current process object. Changing the blockings can be done from this view if the current
user is authorized to change the blockings. In Figure 4.12, the Blocking tab can be seen
in the right side of the dialog. In this case, none of the possible blockings have been
made and the printout and action blockings are not available for this particular object.
The available blockings depend on the process object and its configuration.
To change a blocking, change the selection on the checkbox and click Apply. Multiple
changes can be made at once. Clicking Cancel or Refresh discards the changes and
refreshes the dialog status from the process database.
Forced Operation tab can be used to release device reservation and to override control
blocks on the SYS600 side. It is not possible to override any IED measures preventing
the control with the forced operation. Access to forced operation controls depends on
the application configuration and the user authorization levels. It is possible that the tab
is not visible if configuration or authorization does not allow it.
If an object is selected on another monitor and control is needed on this monitor, click
Release device reservation. This closes the control dialog from other operators and
allows the control from the current dialog. It is also possible that the selection is not
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cleared correctly in case of abnormal termination of control dialog or other errors. This
can also be fixed with the Release device reservation button.
The control buttons may be inactive for various other reasons than selection on another
monitor. The Forced control button can be used to enable the control buttons. The
buttons will be enabled, but the control operations might not succeed anyway depending
on the state of the process.
4.4.3.3 Simulation
The state of controls can be simulated on the Simulation tab. The simulation is indicated
in the object status with appropriate message in case it is active. The simulation cannot
be taken out of use if there is no real process communication available for the process
object. Visibility of the simulation tab depends on the user authorization level.
To enable simulation:
• Check the Simulation in use checkbox and select the desired simulated state
• Click Apply.
To disable simulation:
• Remove the selection from the Simulation in use checkbox
• Click Apply
Enabling and disabling simulation may not be possible or allowed for the current user.
In that case, the checkbox is dimmed and changes cannot be made.
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To change the simulated state, select the desired state from the list of states and click
Apply. Clicking Cancel after changing state the dialog will refresh the current state from
the process database.
4.4.3.4 Alarms
The Alarms tab shows active and fleeting alarms concerning the current object. It allows
acknowledging a single alarm at a time or all alarms at once.
To acknowledge a single alarm, select it from the list and click Ack. selected. Confirm
the acknowledgement in the confirmation dialog.
To acknowledge all alarms, click Ack. All and confirm the action in the confirmation
dialog.
If the signal is still in alarming state after the acknowledgement, it will remain in the list
in acknowledged state. To remove it from the list, the cause of the alarm has to be cleared.
In the example figure below, the object should be removed from the faulty state. If the
buttons are not enabled even when a signal in alarming state is selected, the current user
does not have required authorization to acknowledge the alarm.
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Operation counters count the start and stop operations for pumps and other objects.
To enable operation counters, select the Operation counter in use and fill in the counter
limit value. Click set.
To reset current counter value click Reset. The Set button is dimmed in case the counters
are not in use. If all the buttons and Operation counter in use is disabled, the user does
not have the required authorization level to change the operation counters.
When the counters are in use and the operation counter limit is reached, the message is
shown with the object status messages.
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Controlling pumps with automatic and manual modes work similarly to pumps with only
manual control. For general control options, see Section 4.4.3 Pump, Valve, Fan,
Compressor and Motor Control.
When a pump is in manual mode, the control options are the same as for a pump without
automatic mode. When in automatic mode, the start and stop control buttons are disabled
and only switching to manual mode is possible without forced control. With forced
control, all the buttons are enabled and it is possible to issue commands from the dialog.
It does not necessarily mean that the process will accept or act on these control requests.
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4.4.5 Measurements
The Measurement dialogs show configured data from different measurable elements
from the process. These elements include tanks, pressure levels and temperature.
The overview of configured values are shown on the left side of the dialog (with a
summary of the current status, if available). The background of the value field and
bargraphs also reflect the value status. In usual configurations, the alarming values are
shown in red.
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To simulate a value, select the signal from the left side and select Simulation in use.
Type in the value to be simulated to the value field and clickApply.
To remove the simulation, remove the selection from Simulation in use and click Apply.
It is not possible to remove simulation if the measured value is not connected to process.
Clicking Cancel clears any pending changes and refreshes the state from the process
database.
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4.4.5.1 Limits
From the Measurement Limits tab it is possible to see and change the configured limit
values for the selected measurement depending on the user's authorization level.
To set the limits, type the limit values to the fields and click Apply. An error is shown
if the values cannot be set and no changes are made.
The high alarm limit must be greater than or equal to the high warning limit. The high
warning limit must be greater than or equal to the low warning limit. The low alarm limit
must be less or equal to the low warning limit.
To clear the limits, set all values to 0 and click Apply. All the changes affect the selected
measurement only. To change another measurement from the same object, select it from
the left side of the dialog and repeat the process.
If the buttons are disabled, the user does not have the required authorization to change
the limit values.
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4.4.5.2 Deadband
On the Deadband tab, the user can enable or disable the zero deadband supervision and
change the limit value. With zero deadband supervision enabled, values between +/- of
the configured limit value are shown as 0.
To enable the zero deadband supervision, select the Enable zero deadband supervision,
fill in the limit value and click Apply. The deadband is not taken into use before the next
update for the measurement is received from the process or before a new value that falls
within the deadband range is simulated.
To disable the deadband supervision, remove the selection from Enable zero deadband
supervision and clickApply.
If the buttons are not enabled, the user is not allowed to make changes to zero deadband
supervision.
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4.4.5.3 Blocking
It is possible to change the blockings of both a single measurement as well as all the
measurements of an object at once. When Apply to selected is checked, the changes
affect only the measurements selected from the left side. Otherwise, all blockings of the
objects measurements are changed to the state that is selected in the blockings tab.
Confirm the changes by clicking Apply.
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In Figure 4.22, the update is blocked for some of the object measurements:
• Alarm is not blocked for any of the items
• Event is blocked for all of the object measurements.
Partial update blocking is illustrated by the shaded background of the checkbox. When
the background of the checkbox is clear, all the measurements of the object are blocked.
SInce Alarm is not blocked for any of the measurements, it is shown as an unchecked
checkbox with a clear background. Control, printout and action are not applicable for
these measurements and are therefore disabled and cannot be changed.
4.4.5.4 Messages
Messages are shown one meassage at a time. To check all messages and the state of all
the measurements of an object, select the measurement from the left side of the dialog
one at a time and check the Messages tab.
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4.4.5.5 Alarms
The alarms for all measurement objects are shown on the Alarms tab. To see all the
alarms of an object, there is no need to select the measurements seperately.
Acknowledging the alarms works as with other objects. To acknowledge an alarm, select
it from the list and click Ack. selected. Confirm the acknowledgement in the confirmation
dialog.
To acknowledge all shown alarms at once, click Ack. All and confirm the
acknowledgement from the confirmation dialog.
The buttons are not enabled when there are no messages acknowledge or when the user
does not have the required authorization to acknowledge alarms.
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Control unit consists of one or more measurement values and a setpoint value, which
the process value is controlled towards.
There are two ways to set a new setpoint value:
1. Use the slider to select an appropriate value and click Set. Confirm the action in the
confirmation dialog to set the new value.
2. Type the new setpoint value to the field and click Set.
This is useful in case the slider cannot be shown correctly when the setpoint is
configured without high and low output limits.
Figure 4.25: Control unit with one measurement and setpoint value
All other control unit functionalities works as with any other measurement. For more
information on limits, blocking, messages and alarms, see Section 4.4.5 Measurements.
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4.5 Symbols
This chapter displays the different dynamic symbols available in the pipeline library.
The state colors are shown as in the default color scheme. The states may be colored
differently depending on the used color scheme.
Symbol Meaning
Pump stopped
Pump running
Symbol Meaning
Valve open
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Valve closed
Symbol Meaning
Tank, Simple 1
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Tank, Cone
Tank, Simple 2
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Tank LED
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Symbol Meaning
Tank, normal
Tank, Rounded
Tank, Legs
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Compressor on
Compressor off
Fan on
Fan off
Rotary valve on
Burner off
Control unit
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Symbol Meaning
Local/Remote in station state
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5 Event Display
With the Event Display, the information about events occurring in the system can be
monitored. Thus, the user can make the right decisions and verify that taken measures
have been successfully performed. The user can also receive information about activities
carried out by other users, operations of objects, acknowledging of alarms, editing of
limit values, logging in, and all other type of events which can occur.
The Event Display presents the data in a structured way for the user's convenience. Each
event is one row in the display. With default settings, Event Display rows consist of a
time stamp, object identification, a signal text and a text indicating the status.
The Event Display contains the following features and options:
• Configurable layout: columns, fonts, toolbars, coloring, and so on
• Configurable coloring of events
• Configurable modes: log/event order, latest at top/bottom
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• Updating/Frozen modes
• Easy navigation through scrolling, go to date, time filters, and so on
• Extensive filtering that can be stored and easily called up later
• Find
• Sorting by column
• Copy/Paste of events to other applications
• Printouts
• Commenting of events
The event activation and consequential actions are defined in the process database
separately for each individual object.
Typical examples on events are:
• Changes in or updating of an object value
• Changes of an alarm and a warning state
• Changes of the alarm definition, alarm blocking, acknowledgement, and so on
When an event occurs in the system, the operator wants to receive an answer to the
following questions (answers provided below each question):
1. What happened?
• A change in the state of the object or an executed operation.
2. Where did it happen?
• A descriptive text (object identification, OI and object text, OX) comprising
of, for example, a device notation and the type of object or operation.
3. When did it happen?
• The point of time when the event occurred. If the event originates from a station
providing a time stamp, this time stamp will be used. Depending on the station,
the time is on a second or a millisecond level. In other cases, the time stamp is
the SYS600 system time with an accuracy of 10 milliseconds.
The following functions can be activated by an event:
• Automatic printout. Like alarms, events can cause automatic printouts on the event
and alarm printer.
• Activation in the report database, for example automatic control operations,
registration, report printout, and so on.
Depending on how crucial an object is, the following events in the object may activate
an event printout, a registration in the history buffer, or an activity in the report database
(from the least crucial to the most crucial object):
• No activation
• An alarm is activated and deactivated
• The alarm or warning state changes
• The object value changes
• The object value is updated, although it is not changed
There are two ways to access the Event Display: selecting Navigate > Event or by
clicking Event Display on the toolbar.
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displayed informing the user to proceed to the last events and to change the mode to the
updating mode.
Alarm symbol
The alarm symbol is the first status column shown in the beginning of the event row. If
the object is alarming, the symbol * is displayed.
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Sorting Rows
Rows can be sorted by clicking a column header. If the same column is clicked twice,
the sorting order is reversed.
Finding
Rows can be searched for using the Find function by going to Main > Find or by clicking
the icon.
The Find dialog box searches the list from start to end. If an event row contains the
desired text, it is selected. A message appears when the end point of the search has been
reached or when the searched text is not found.
Printing
List can be printed (Main > Print or the icon). The user can print either all rows,
selected rows, or a page range. The font size in the print is automatically adjusted so that
all the data fits into the page. If the text does not fit into the page, the rest of the columns
are printed to following pages.
A list can be filtered. Only the rows that match the filter are shown.
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Filters are defined by selecting Filters from the menu bar. The Filter dialog contains
standard filters that can be selected by the user. The Filter dialog provides at least the
following standard filters: all events, event time, per substation, per bay and per device.
It is possible to change the existing filters or to add new filters that can be stored and
reused by other operators. The Filter dialog contains a specification form where new
filters can be created or the existing filters can be changed.
In Alarm Display and Event Display on the upper part of the Filter dialog, there are two
options that specify whether the Lower Time Limit or Upper Time Limit is used. If the
Lower Time Limit is not in use (off), the alarms or events will be presented from the
latest backwards. If the Upper Time Limit is not in use, the alarms or events will be
presented up to the latest. Only when a time limit is in use, the corresponding date and
time limits can be defined. Clicking the drop-down menu in the time limit field opens
the date selector, by which the time limit can be defined (Figure 5.3). Whether the Lower
Time Limit or Upper Time Limit is defined, the date selector opens the related time limit
below indicating which time limit is edited.
To save the active filter settings, select Preconfigurations... in the Filter Settings dialog.
The Preconfigurations dialog is opened, in which the name for the preconfiguration can
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be defined. Define the location of the preconfiguration in the Visibility field. When
selecting the Application option, the preconfiguration becomes accessible for all the
users of the application, see Figure 5.4. Click Save to save the preconfiguration file.
Click Close to close the dialog without saving.
Right-click a line row to open a context menu. In this menu, Locate object in DMS ,
Locate object in Monitor Pro, or Locate object in Monitor Pro - new window can
be selected.
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Locate object in DMS displays the process point according to the logical node and the
index (LN and IX) attributes. This function is provided together with DMS 600. For
more information, see DMS 600 Operation Manual.
Locate object in Monitor Pro opens a Process Display and zooms into the symbol that
presents the same object that produced the row, and marks it with a highlighted symbol.
Locate object in Monitor Pro - new window opens a Process Display in a new window,
zooms into the symbol that presents the same object that produced the row, and marks
it with a highlighted symbol.
Signal blocking states for each signal in the list can be viewed and modified. For more
information on blockings see Section 7.3 Handling Blockings.
Signal blocking state dialog is accessed through a context menu that appears by
right-clicking a row, see Figure 5.7.
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Blockings can be set with option buttons, see Figure 5.8. If some of the blockings are
not allowed to a signal, the option button is disabled.
The layout settings can be configured by selecting Settings > Display Settings... >
Layout Settings. The dialog in shown in Figure 5.9.
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All the available attributes are shown in the Attributes box. Selected Columns is a list
of currently selected columns. Add attributes to Selected Columns list by clicking >.
Clicking >> adds all the attributes to Selected columns list.
Remove selected attributes from the Selected Columns list by clicking < or remove all
attributes from Selected columns list by clicking <<.
Change the order of the columns by selecting a column and clicking Up or Down buttons.
Default Settings restores the settings to an installation defaults for specific display type.
Enter the new name to the column name field and click the icon.
In Event Display, there is a special STATUS column, which is displayed as three
consequtive columns in the list. Names for these can be given separated by a comma, as
shown in the Figure 5.9.
It is possible to configure certain events to use different colors in the list display. This
improves the possibility to locate certain system events. For example, important events,
which cause alarms in the system, can be defined to use the red color in the Event Display.
For more information, see SYS600 Application Design.
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To use the color settings, the authorization level Control (1) is required. The Color Setting
tool is in the read-only mode, if the authorization level is lower than Engineering (2) in
the TOOLS authorization group. If the TOOLS authorization group is not found, the
authorization group GENERAL is used.
The Color Settings dialog is used when the list display is customized with different colors
for rows on the list display. The coloring of a row in a list is defined with one or multiple
conditions defined in the Color Settings dialog, see Figure 5.10.
To add a new coloring rule to the list, click Add. Remove the selected coloring rule from
the list by clicking Remove.... The position of the selected row can be changed by clicking
the Up or Down buttons. Coloring rules are prioritized according to their order in the
list and the first rule matching the criteria is used.
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The background color of every display can be changed. The Color settings dialog has
Edit buttons to open the Color dialog, where the color selection is done. The selected
color is displayed as a colored box.
Default Settings button reverts the color settings.
There are some predefined color rules. A predefined color rule can be added to the list
by selecting it from the drop down list and clicking the Add button. Unused predefinitions
are shown in the drop-down list. When a preconfigure color rule is removed, it is returned
to the drop down list.
User Activity Log Display uses Event Display color settings definitions. Only color rules
can be defined specific to the User Activity Log Display.
Frozen mode color and Filter in use color are used in markers in the Monitor Pro
application window to highlight that the appropriate mode is used.
Day Break color is used on event display. When events are sorted by the time column,
every other day uses day break color as background color.
Color conditions
The condition of when a coloring rule is applied is defined with edit condition dialog.
Conditions can be entered either by using conditions rows or by hand in the filter field.
The condition is a simple logical expression such as AL = 1 AND AR = 0. Conditions
can also contain parenthesis. A name can be given to each condition.
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The available operators for the conditions are described in Table 5.2.
Table 5.2: Condition operators
Operator Function
== or = Equal than
< Less than
> Greater than
<= Less or equal than
>= Greater or equal than
<> Not equal to
The Value field contains the value that is compared to the selected attribute by using the
selected comparison operator. It is possible to use the wildcard characters % and * when
defining the value of the Value field, but, in that case, the only allowed operators are =
and <>. For example, a value 5* means that the first character in the value must be 5 but
the rest of the value can contain any number of arbitrary characters. Character % means
any character.
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It is possible to save the data shown in event, alarm and bloking lists to a file in CSV
format. The separator between the columns is the List Seprator character defined in
operating systems Regional Settings. If the List Separator is defined to be '.' (full stop),
it is replaced with ';' (semicolon) character.
To export data:
1. Select Export... from list specific menu. The Save As dialog opens.
2. Specify the folder and the file name for CSV export file.
3. Click Save button to export the data.
The exported text file contains the header information, the export creation time, and the
events data. To open the export file with e.g. Microsoft Excel, select Format > Cells >
Text in the Category list to display the format correctly.
Lists have a setting for Daylight Saving visualization. The setting is accessed via the
lists' General Settings dialog. If the setting is enabled, lists will indicate Daylight Saving
times in each list column having timestamp information. Daylight Saving timestamps
are suffixed with '*' (asterix) character.
To configure Event Display settings (see Figure 5.13), the authorization level Control is
required. The Settings dialog is used when customizing the list.
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Comments can be used for making remarks to events. The comments are available to all
Event Display users. Comments can also be removed.
The Comments dialog can be opened by right-clicking an event row with or without the
comment marker and selecting Comment in the context menu. Events with comment
markers are shown in Figure 5.14.
To add a comment:
1. Open the Comments dialog.
2. Write the comment to the dialog and click OK.
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3. Press Enter after each line. If no comment text is given, no comment mark will be
displayed in the Event Display.
Open the Comment dialog to read the comment. To remove the comment, click Remove
Comment. The Last Edit by User and Modification date fields show the name of the
user that last edited the comment, and the time and date of the modification.
The length of the comment is limited. If the comment is too long, the OK button is
disabled.
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6 Alarm Display
The Alarm Display shows a summary of the present alarm situation of the supervised
process. Each alarm is normally presented as an alarm text row, which describes the
cause of the alarm in the process. With default settings the alarm text row normally has
a time stamp, an object identification, an object text and text indicating the alarm status.
See Figure 6.1 for Alarm Display Template 1 and Figure 6.2 for Alarm Display Template
2.
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Acknowledge…:
All: Acknowledges all the alarms on the list. A confirmation dialog is opened to confirm
the operation.
Page: Acknowledges all the alarms on the current pages (both lists). A confirmation
dialog is opened to confirm the operation.
Show Info Fields: Displays/hides the info fields.
Show Headers: Displays/hides the list headers.
Last Alarm: Scrolls the list to show the latest alarm and sets the mode to updating.
Export: Exports the current view in CSV file format.
The toolbar provides a shortcut to the commands in the menus. The toolbars in the Alarm
Display Template 1 and Alarm Display Template 2 can be modified separately.
The buttons in the toolbar of Alarm Display are from left to right:
• Show Filters
• Reset Filter
• Switch to Updating or Frozen Mode
• Acknowledge All
• Acknowledge Page
• Acknowledge Selected Alarm
• Go to Last Alarm
Add or remove buttons on the toolbar the same way as in applications in general, refer
to Section 3.4.2 Changing application layout.
The list can be set to two different modes: frozen and updating. When the list is in the
frozen mode, it is not updated, and the alarm information can be read easily. If alarms
are changed while the Alarm Display is in the frozen mode, the operator is notified with
an informative text on the display area. When in the updating mode, the Alarm Display
is updated when alarms are changed. The current mode is indicated in the Monitor Pro
application window.
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Acknowledge
Unacknowledged Acknowledged Persisting
Alarm Alarm Alarms
Acknowledge
Fleeting alarm Non alarming
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In the Alarm Display Template 2, the inactive acknowledged alarms can also be kept on
the list. Due to this, Template 2 functions as a sort of alarm log. The inactive
acknowledged alarms are erased from the list when the Alarm Display is closed. The
same can be done by selecting Alarm Display Template 2 > Refresh from the menu.
All alarms are displayed on a single list. A flashing character * indicates all
unacknowledged alarms, both active and inactive. Template 2 is presented in Figure 6.2.
Table 6.2 provides an explanation for the different alarm types.
Table 6.2: Alarm types
Alarm Type Explanation
Active unacknowledged An alarm has been reported, but it has not been
acknowledged.
Active acknowledged The alarm has been inactivated (the state is
normal again).
Inactive unacknowledged The state has been alarming, but it is no longer
alarming.
Inactive acknowledged An alarm has been reported, and it has been
acknowledged.
Process alarms
Process alarms are alarms that are related to the supervised process, for example,
measurement values exceeding or going below the preset alarm limits, breakers tripping
or getting into a faulty position and so on.
Internal alarms
Internal alarms are alarms caused by the network control system itself. Reasons for these
alarms contain communication problems between a communication unit and substation,
printer device errors, substation getting suspended, and so on. These kinds of erroneous
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states are detected and converted from internal system messages to alarms by the System
Self Supervision function of SYS600.
System alarm
A system alarm is an alarm generated by an external module supervising the Base System.
The external module is working as a Watch Dog for the base system and it generates an
external alarm if the base system stops. It is not possible to include this alarm in the
Alarm Display.
Alarm acknowledgement
An acknowledgement of an alarm is a way to show that the operator has registered and
identified the alarm. Generally, acknowledging an alarm does not affect the alarm state.
An unacknowledged alarm remains in the alarm buffer until it is acknowledged, even if
the alarm state has passed. A required acknowledgement can be set individually for each
process object (RC attribute).
Alarm blocking
Alarm blocking blocks a signal in such a way that it cannot generate an alarm. (The same
applies to history blocking, printout blocking and action blocking). Since the alarm is
blocked, it is not registered in the process database when the process object gets into an
alarm generating state. The other types of blocking are history blocking, printout blocking
and action blocking.
It is not possible to block features that has not been activated, for example alarms, history,
printouts and action features. Alarm blocking is set individually for each process object
(AB attribute).
Alarm classes
The term alarm class means that the alarms can be grouped into seven equally significant
alarm classes. This feature can be used when the user wants to group alarms caused by
process objects with common properties, for example object location. From the base
system's point of view, there is no internal priority between the different alarm classes.
The alarm classes can also be used when searching alarms from the alarm buffer. By
setting the alarm class to 0, the alarm function of a process object is set off. The use of
alarm classes is user-defined.
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Function and alarm class lists differ from the object lists in that they are not editable.
This is to simplify modifications. The number of the selected alarm class refers directly
to the alarm class of the alarms to be shown in the Alarm Display. Any combination
between these two lists is possible.
The Settings dialog (see Figure 6.5) includes general settings, Font Settings, Visibility
settings and context menu settings. The Latest alarm on bottom specifies whether the
latest alarm is presented in the Alarm.
Display on the top or at bottom of the list. By default, the latest alarm is on the top. In
the font settings the font size, name and style can be specified. The visibility settings
include the options Application specific and User specific. The following items can be
selected to be shown in the context menu:
• Acknowledge…
• Locate object in Monitor Pro
• Locate object in Monitor Pro - new window
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Acknowledge a single alarm by selecting the alarm row from the Latest Alarms dialog,
see Figure 6.6.
If the selected alarm is unacknowledged, the Acknowledgement dialog in Figure 6.7 can
be opened by selecting Acknowledge All from the context menu. The same can be
achieved by double-clicking an unacknowledged alarm row in the list.
In the dialog, the alarm text row (except for the status text) is shown to ensure that the
right alarm is acknowledged. If OK is clicked, the alarm will be acknowledged, the
dialog closed, and the Alarm Display will be updated. Clicking Cancel closes the dialog
and returns the Alarm Display. All alarms on the list can be acknowledged at the same
time by selecting Alarm Display Template 2> Acknowledge All from the menu or by
clicking the appropriate button on the toolbar. The alarms currently visible on the list
can be acknowledged by selecting Alarm Display Template 2 > Acknowledge Page
or by clicking the appropriate button on the toolbar.
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7 Blocking Display
The Blocking Display summarizes the present blocking situation of signals in the
supervised process. Each signal is presented as a signal row, which describes the signal
in the process. The signal text row normally consists of a signal text and a group of check
boxes indicating the blocking state. Figure 7.1 shows the Blocking Display main view.
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All the tools can be used either by clicking the shortcuts on the toolbar or by selecting
the corresponding items in the Blocking menu.
The Blocking menu contains the following commands:
Filters: Opens a Filter Settings dialog, where filters can be selected and edited.
Reset Filter: Resets filters.
Refresh: Updates the blocking information.
Show All Signals: Loads all signals to the display despite of their blocking status.
Show Info Fields: Displays/hides the info fields.
Show Headers: Displays/hides the list headers.
First Blocking: Shows the first blocking.
Last Blocking: Shows the last blocking.
Export: Exports the current view in CSV file format.
The toolbar is a shortcut that can be used in parallel with the drop-down menu.
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• First Blocking
• Last Blocking
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The settings part of the Blocking Display functions consists of two main parts: view and
event/printout settings. The user can concentrate on one or more blocking types by
excluding the other blocking types from the list with the view part of the Blocking Display
Settings dialog (shown in Figure 7.4).
There are settings for enabling event generation and printout on a change of blocking.
Events and printouts are enabled/disabled regardless of the attributes (HE and PB) of
the target signal.
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With the User Activity Log Display the information about all user activity related events
can be monitored and analyzed. Typical user activity related events are user login and
logout events.
Each user activity event is one row in the display. With default settings, User Activity
Log Display rows consist of event identifier, a time stamp, event text, user name, severity
of the event and the source application of the event.
The User Activity Log Display contains the following features and options:
• Configurable layout: columns, fonts, toolbars, coloring, and so on
• Configurable coloring of user activity events
• Configurable mode for presenting latest event at top/bottom
• Easy navigation through scrolling, go to date, time filters, and so on
• Extensive filtering that can be stored and easily called up later using preconfigurations
• Find
• Sorting by column
• Printouts
The User Activity Log Display is accessed by selecting Navigate > User Activity Log.
The User Activity Log menu contains the following commands:
Filters: Opens a Filter Settings dialog, where filters can be selected and edited.
Reset Filter: Resets filters.
Refresh: Updates the User Activity Log information.
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9 Trends Display
The Trends Display is used for trend analyses and for showing measured values in the
form of a curve or a table.
A trend is a time related follow-up of process data. All types of process objects, for
example in and out data and binary, analog and digital data can be illustrated as trends.
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The Trend Basket dialog can be opened by selecting Trends > Trend Basket, or by
clicking the corresponding button in the toolbar. The Trend Basket dialog lists the
system objects and lets the user pick the objects to be shown in the trend.
By default, only measurement objects are shown. If the All Objects (not only
measurements) option is selected, the Trend Basket object tree displays all the objects
from the process database.
The available objects are presented on the left side of the dialog. In the object tree's
lowest level objects which will be included into the Trend Basket list can be selected
one at a time.
There are three ways to add objects to the Trend Basket from the object list:
1. right-click the object and select the Add to Trend Basket command from the context
menu. Added objects are shown on the right side in the Trend Basket.
2. drag an object from the available object list and drop it into the Trend Basket list
on the right side.
3. double-click the object to add it to the Trend Basket list.
To remove selected object from the Trend Basket:
1. right-click the object in the Trend Basket list and select Remove Log from the
context menu.
2. press the Delete key from the keyboard.
3. click Delete button in the dialog.
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The Trend Basket dialog will also be used to configure individual trend parameters. The
Trend Setting dialog for the selected trend can be opened by double-clicking an object,
selecting the corresponding Log Settings... item from the context menu or by clicking
the Edit... button.
Change the Log function will cause the lost of all existing data
for the selected Trend.
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Clearing the Trend data for the selected Trend can be done by right-clicking an item in
the Trend Basket and selecting Clear log data from the context menu, or by clicking
The Trends Display has four toolbars. Three are used for both views and one dedicated
for the graphical view.
When the Trends Display is started for the first time, all the three toolbars are visible.
Show or hide the toolbars by selecting Settings > Customize. Add or remove buttons
on the toolbars the same way as described in Section 3.4.2 Changing application layout.
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Function Description
Display Settings Opens a sub-menu with the following items:
• General Legend Settings...
• Graph Settings...
• Legend layout Settings...
Help Opens the Help dialog
The Trends Display toolbar buttons and drop-down lists from left to right are as follows:
• Switch updating/frozen mode
• Refresh
• Open Trend Basket
• Show or hide trend curves
• Switch tabular/graphical view
The toolbar commands can also be selected from the Trends menu (see Figure 9.7 and
Figure 9.8). Some of the menu items are active for graphical view only.
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In addition to the toolbars the following functions are available from the menu:
• Show/Hide Hairline
• Show/Hide Legend
• Export...
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Show and hide the trend curves by selecting Trends > Select Curves, or by clicking the
corresponding button in the Trends Display toolbar. The Show/Hide Trend curves
dialog displays the items the Trend Basket contains. These items can be included in or
excluded from the selected preconfiguration by selecting or clearing the corresponding
checkbox. It is also possible to select all or clear all of the items by using the appropriate
commands from the context menu, or by using the command buttons.
By default, all the added items in the Trend Basket are automatically included and
displayed in the trend curves as well. View the detailed information about the trended
items in preconfiguration in the Show/Hide Trend curves dialog.
With the Show All Curves check-box all Trend curves not used for the selected
preconfiguration can be hidden.
To change the Trend curve position within the preconfiguration, select one curve and
use the corresponding Down or Up button. This will also change the position in the curve
legend. After changing the position, the preconfiguration must be saved to keep the
position change.
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The time period used in tabular and graphical view can be changed with the Select Time
By default, the Full registration period is applied. This means that all the samples are
shown on the graphical view, and the accuracy of the registration time is scaled
accordingly. When Custom period is selected, it is possible to select a start date and time
for the detailed information. The first registration time is shown on the X axis.
Additionally, the length of the period is defined to one of the following alternatives: 30
days, 5 days, 1 day, 1 hour, 10 minutes or 1 minute.
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Not all data are always available for the curve type Bar and
Stacked bar. The amount of displayed bars or groups of bars
depends on the zooming level.
The legend position can be changed with the dialog or the Legend Control context menu.
The legend show up can be disabled with the dialog or from the Trends menu.
Navigation
The Navigation toolbar buttons from left to right are as follows:
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• Go to First Period
• Go to Previous Period
• Go to Next Period
• Go to Last Period
• Select Period
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The Save/Restore Zoom…, Zoom Previous, Zoom in and Zoom out buttons can be
removed, because they are not used for the graphical view of the Trends Display.
Graph Settings
The dialog can be opened either by clicking the appropriate Main toolbar button or
by right-clicking inside the plot area and selecting the Graph Settings... item.
Authorization level has to be at least Control (1) to be able to change these properties.
After modifying the settings in the dialog, save it as a preconfiguration if the changes
need to be permanent.
1. Common Settings
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Setting Description
Use Grid color (all Y axes) If enabled, the dedicated Y axis gridline color will be
used. Otherwise the gridline color from global color
setting tool will be used.
Left or right selection (all Y axes) Y axis placement
Enable gridline (all Y axes) If enabled, horizontal gridline corresponding with Y
axis will be shown.
Unit name (all Y axes) Display unit name of Y axis, default value is Y1, Y2,
Y3, Y4.
3. Curve properties
The Curve Properties tab can be used to change individual curve settings. First
the correct report curve must be selected from the drop-down list.
The Curve Properties dialog can be also opened via the curve right mouse click
context menu in the graphical area or the legend.
Selecting the All Curves option helps to change the curve type for all available
curves.
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The Legend
The Legend shows selected curves attributes, the hairline values and summary information
in a tabular form.
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Clicking > adds the selected attributes to the Selected columns list. Clicking >> adds all
attributes to Selected columns list. Clicking < removes the selected attributes from the
Selected columns list. Clicking << removes all attributes from the Selected columns list.
The column position within the Legend table can be changed by moving the selected
column upwards or downwards using the Up/Down buttons.
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When the selection is pasted to the clipboard, the data is divided into several sections,
where each section has a header and contents of each selected Trend data.
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Trend values, registration time and status are shown on the list. Other Trend parameters,
for example object text, time interval, logging function and statistics, are shown on the
right side.
The Status column provides a clear text description for the status of the trended data.
Table 9.9: Tabular view, status column
Status Description
column
OK The Trend data has been registered under good conditions.
Suspicious The source of the Trend data has been marked as suspicious, e.g. if the input
card has some failure.
Obsolete The source of the Trend data has been marked as obsolete (not up to date), e.g.
if the connection to the data collection device has been lost.
Faulty time The source of the Trend data has an inaccurate time stamp because of time syn-
chronization.
Man. This Trend data has been manually entered by an operator.
Entered
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Status Description
column
Not sampled The source of the Trend data never had a valid value, e.g. after system start before
the connection with data collection device is established.
General settings
The General Settings dialog can be opened either by clicking the appropriate Main
Navigation
The Navigation toolbar buttons from left to right are:
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Editing values
When the tabular view is active, it is possible to enter a specified Trend value manually.
To enter the value manually:
1. Right-click the specified value and select Edit value from the context menu or
double-click the value that needs to be edited. The Edit Value dialog is displayed.
2. The text fields of this dialog show the index, registration time, status and current
value of the selected registration. Type a new value into the Value field.
3. Click OK to change the new value to the Trend. To leave the value unchanged, click
Cancel.
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When the selection is done, select the appropriate button from the Main toolbar or
press CTRL+C.
When pasting the selection to the clipboard, the data is divided into several sections,
where each section has a header and contents of each selected report item.
9.6 Preconfigurations
The current Trend settings can be saved in a preconfiguration (see Figure 9.28). The
following properties will be saved:
• Background color of the graphical form
• Colors and styles of the X and Y axes
• Text fonts of the axes
• Trend curve colors and styles
• Trend curve marker colors and styles
• Trend curve title fonts
• Visibility and position of the legend in the graphical view
• Visibility of the Trend curves
• Auto scaling of Y axes
• Type of the curves in the graphical view
• Legend settings
• Curve properties from global settings selection
Saving the current Trend settings can be done by selecting Main > Save, or by clicking
the appropriate Main toolbar button . The Save Preconfiguration dialog is displayed,
see Figure 9.28.
To create a new preconfiguration, a new name must be entered in the Name field and it
must be saved.
To replace an existing preconfiguration with the current Trend settings, the existing
preconfiguration name must be selected and Save button clicked.
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All the saved application specific preconfigurations are available for all users working
with a certain application. Each user can save individual preconfigurations by selecting
the User specific preconfiguration visibility checkbox.
The Monitor Pro Menubar item Navigate > Trends shows all available preconfigurations.
All the application and user specific preconfigurations are displayed as a submenu of
this command. User specific preconfigurations are only visible for the creator of the
preconfiguration.
Additionally, it is also possible to open preconfigurations using the appropriate button
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1. Select Export item from the Trends menu or from the right-click context menu.
The Save As dialog opens.
2. Select a folder and file name for the selection.
3. Click the Save button to export the data.
The exported text file contains the header information, curve statistics and curve values.
A curve value includes an index, the time, value, and status.
To open the export file with e.g. Microsoft Excel, select Format > Cells > Text (in the
Category list) to display the format correctly.
9.9 Authorizing
Trends Display follows the authorization concept of MicroSCADA Pro. The authorization
level is checked from the authorization group TrendS. If this authorization group does
not exist, the authorization level of the group GENERAL is used.
The following functions in the Trend views require at least Control (1) authorization
level:
• Changing Graph Settings
• Manually entering values
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System Self Supervision (SSS) is used in MicroSCADA Pro systems for supervising
and monitoring the system. It provides status information of hardware and software using
the supervision symbols of SYS600.
The System Self Supervision consists of:
• supervision application objects
• supervision monitoring symbols and control dialogs
• supervision events and alarms
• supervision logging
The supervision application objects provide the source for supervision state and status
information. The supervision information is shown in the Event and Alarm lists. Typically,
additional system supervision display has been designed for MicroSCADA Pro system
supervision purposes. Figure 10.1 shows the System Self Supervision dedicated symbols
and statuses, which can be found from such a system supervision display. The supervision
information is displayed in the supervision display by supervision monitoring.
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About 50 symbols have been designed for system supervision purposes. These symbols
are updated either as event based or time based manners by the runtime logic of
supervision application objects. This way, the supervised object gets visualized by the
real world object state and status in the system.
For example the following supervision symbol categories are available:
• System server
• Application
• Communication unit
• Station (IED)
• Workplace
• Computer accessories
• Network equipment
• Status
These supervision symbols are installed into the system supervision display using Display
Builder. For information on the characteristics of all supervision symbols, see SYS600
Process Display design manual.
Principles for supervision symbol visual design are general and used for all supervision
monitoring symbols. Some supervision symbols have both the dynamic and static
appearance as indicated in Figure 10.2.
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Unknown status
In unknown status the symbol is static magenta.
The cause for the unknown status should be analyzed and corrective
actions should be taken.
Warning status (warning limit has been exceeded)
In warning status the symbol is static yellow.
The cause for the warning status should be analyzed, because over
time this object may change to failure status.
Good status with unacknowledged alarm
Symbol has been in the alarming state, but not anymore. Acknowledge-
ment of alarm will change the symbol to Good status.
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Association to the real world object is achieved with the static part of symbol. For
example, for Station supervision, there is a variety of IED products available. Additionally,
it is possible to include a Station symbol, if needed. The available supervision symbols
for IED products are shown in Figure 10.3.
Supervision control dialogs are opened when the appropriate symbol in the supervision
display is clicked. These dialogs have been designed to provide more information about
the selected supervision object. Additionally, it is possible to perform the supervision
related control operations, for example, sending general interrogation command to Station
(IED) or activating the take over in HSB system. Supervision control dialog contents
and authority handling for control operations can be configured.
For example, the following control dialogs are available:
• Base System Supervision
• Application Supervision
• Communication Node Supervision
• Communication Line Supervision
• Station Supervision
• SNMP Supervision
Supervision control dialogs have common characteristics, such as the Power Process
control dialogs. An example of Station Supervision is shown in Figure 10.4. By default,
dialog shows the Main tab. The selected supervision object is indicated in the dialog
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title and the Object Identification field. Detailed attribute information is shown in
Attribute and Value columns. The dialog can be expanded by using the >> button.
When the dialog is expanded, additional tabs appear, see Figure 10.5. By using the tabs,
it is possible to perform supervision control operations, especially in the Control tab.
The supervision alarms for the selected object are listed in the Alarms tab. In this tab,
it is possible to acknowledge selected or all alarms. Also other tabs may exist, for example
Diagnostics, where typical operations are resetting the counter values with the appropriate
buttons.
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The appearance of the control dialog for application supervision depends on the type of
system. The Main and Diagnostics tabs are shown only for the single system, whereas
the Shadowing and Forced Takeover tabs appear for a redundant system.
The Diagnostics and Shadowing tabs provide more detailed information about the
application counters. In the Forced Takeover tab it is possible to activate the forced
takeover.
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There are control dialogs available for both PC-NET and IEC 61850 nodes. By default,
the same attribute information is shown in the Main tab. Additionally, for PC-NET
communication nodes, it is possible to expand the dialog to get details of each
communication line.
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Communication lines for PC-NET are shown when the PC-NET Node Supervision
control dialog is expanded. Attributes for communication lines configured for selected
PC-NET node are shown in separate tabs with attribute and value descriptions (for
example, the Line 5 tab).
Communication line diagnostics can be monitored on the dedicated tabs, for example
the Diagnostics 5 tab. This tab shows Index, Diagnostic Counter and Value information
for the selected communication line. Clicking Reset or Reset All clears the value
information either for the selected diagnostic counter or all counters at the same time.
Clear to Send and Carrier Detect items indicate the communication status for serial
communication lines. These items are not visible to the TCP/IP communication lines.
All information shown in this tab is cyclically updated.
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In the Control tab it is possible to set communication lines either out of use or in use.
It is also possible to stop or start the PC-NET Node communication from that tab, too.
See Figure 10.10 for details.
The appearance for SNMP supervision control dialog depends on the type of the SNMP
device. Simple Network Management Protocol devices are able to provide information
about them in the internet protocol network via network management protocol. Such
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devices are: servers, printers, hubs, switches and routers. An example of Network Switch
with 8 ports is shown in Figure 10.11. When the dialog is expanded, the alarms for the
device are shown and control operations can be performed by using the Ack. selected
and Ack. All buttons.
The appearance of attributes shown for the SNMP device is configured via device
templates. For more information, see SYS600 Application Design manual. By default,
the following device templates are found:
• Network switch
• GPS
• Computer
• Printer
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In case of an alarm, the supervised object causing an alarm can be found from the Alarm
Display. This alarm indicates the existing state of the supervised object and it gets changed
to the normal value as the supervised object receives the normalized event. The reason
for causing the alarm in system can be found from the Event Display, for example Device
stopped [13918].
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Starting tool
Supervision Log Viewer can be started from the menu bar by selecting Tools >
Supervision Log. When the tool gets started, it shows the contents of logged information
at that moment. To update the view, select View > Refresh to get the tool reflected by
the latest collected information. An example of the Supervision Log Viewer main view
is shown in Figure 10.14.
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11 Measurement Reports
Measurement Reports provide an interface for showing measured values for further data
analysis in the application. It can be used for monitoring time related follow ups of the
process as well as measured or calculated data. It shows the history of these values and
the entering values. The reports are meant for various types of time related reports, for
example hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and yearly reports.
Generally, all types of data can be illustrated as reports. All data for the reports is
calculated and stored in real time. The report data is collected and calculated cyclically.
The most common method is to collect raw data from the process, refine it and store it
in the report database. Measurement Reports can be used, for instance, in reporting the
following:
• Energy (active, reactive)
• Current (for example bay level)
• Voltage (for example bay level)
• Frequency
• Temperature
• District heating
All data values in the report can be presented either in tabular (numerical) or in a graphical
view. The contents and the reprocessing of data has been defined during the configuration
of the Measurement Reports, which is described in the Application Design manual.
During runtime, the collected data may be updated due to the following reasons in the
application:
• At predefined time intervals
• As a calculation result
Measurement Reports contain the following features:
• All types of process objects illustrated as reports
• All types of process objects illustrated as reports- demo
• Graphical or tabular view modes
• Zooming mode
• Scrolling with scroll bars and panning
• Configurable axes and line properties
• Using legend and hairline
• Report types with different time resolution (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly)
• Quick report type with different time resolution (hourly, daily weekly, monthly,
yearly)
• Load duration curves
• User specific and application specific preconfigurations
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Measurement Reports has four toolbars. Three toolbars are used for both views and one
is dedicated for the graphical view.
With the first Measurement Reports start all toolbars are visible. Toolbars can be shown
or hidden through the Settings > Customize mode. It is possible to add or remove buttons
on the toolbars the same way as described in Section 3.4.2 Changing application layout.
The Measurement Reports Main toolbar buttons from left to right are as follows:
• Open Preconfiguration
• Save Preconfiguration
• Print Display
• Copy to Clipboard from Selected Display
• Find in Selected Display
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The Measurement Reports display toolbar buttons and drop-down lists from left to right
are as follows:
• Switch updating/frozen mode
• Refresh
• Show/hide report data
• Switch tabular/graphical view
• Select report page
• Select time interval
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The Measurement report Navigation toolbar buttons from left to right are as follows:
• Go to first available period
• Go to previous period
• Go to next period
• Go to last available period
• Select period
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Browse backwards and forwards in time by one hour, day, month or year at a time. The
browsing interval is related to the time relation of the report type. To browse backwards,
click the previous hour/day/week/month (arrow left). To browse forward, click the next
hour/day/week/month (arrow right). The same selections can be made from the menu
bar. The values from the previous or next interval are fetched and displayed.
Select a specific hour, day, month or year in the Select Period dialog. The selection is
related to the time relation of the report type. To open the Select Period dialog, click the
date sheet symbol.
The toolbar commands can be selected from the Measurement Reports menu (see
Figure 11.5 and Figure 11.6). Some of the menu items are active only for the graphical
view.
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The menu for the tabular view contains the same commands as the toolbars.
Figure 11.6: The Measurement Reports menu for the graphical view
In addition to the toolbars, the following functions are available from the menu:
• Show/Hide Hairline
• Load duration curves
• Export...
For more information about the commands, see Section 11.3 Graphical view.
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The header contains the following information fields from left to right:
• Period field
• Measurement Unit information
The Period field gives information about the date/time range for the current visible data.
The field content depends on the current active report type:
• For hourly and daily reports the current active day, as shown in Figure 11.7.
• For weekly reports the current active week.
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The graphical view does not recognize any units or scales, only
the values registered in the report database. To avoid confusion,
curves with different units should use different Y axes.
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The measured column shows the report data as defined in the Report Page Configuration.
The measurements can be based on the measurements of the process, manually entered
or calculated values.
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General settings
The General Settings dialog can be opened either by clicking the appropriate Main
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Time column
The following figures show and explain the different time column formats based on the
selected Report Display base type.
Hour report, time interval 3 minutes
The indication in the time column is shown as time, for example
11:03 or 11:06.
The time indicates the period begin.
In the example to the left, "11:00 -" indicates the period from
11:00 to 11:03.
The sampling time for this period was at 11:03.
Week report
In the weekly reports, the indication in the time column is the
day of the week, for example Monday or Tuesday.
Month report
In the monthly reports, the indication in the time column is the
day of the month, for example 1, 2 or 3.
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Year report
In the yearly reports, the indication in the time column is the
name of the month, for example January or February.
For hour and day reports, the time column can be configured in a way that the start and
the end time of each period will be shown. This can be done in help of the "Time Range"
parameter in the General Settings dialog.
Editing values
Data included in the measurement reports can be edited in the tabular view with the Edit
Value dialog, if an appropriate command is accessible in the user's authorization.
Manually edit value is only possible in Day report displays where the interval is equal
to the Report Object base period. If, for example, Report Object base period is 15 min,
then editing is only enabled in Day report displays with a 15-minute interval time.
The edited values are stored into the report database, and other values, for example
calculated values that depend on it, are automatically recalculated using the new value.
To enter the data registration manually:
1. Right-click the item in the report column and select Edit value from the context
menu. The Edit Value dialog is displayed.
2. The text fields of this dialog show the registration time and status, and the existing
value of the selected registration. Type a new value in the Value field.
3. Click OK to change the new value to the measurement report. To leave the value
unchanged, click Cancel.
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Adding comments
A comment can be added or removed with the Comment dialog. The comment is attached
to one row.
To open the Comment dialog, click the time column in the tabular format. The comment
is saved to a file and the note is indicated with an exclamation mark next to the time
column.
11.5 Preconfigurations
The current Measurement Report settings can be saved in a preconfiguration. The
following properties will be saved:
• Background color of the graphical view
• Colors and styles of the X and Y axes
• Colors and styles of the measurement curves
• Visibility of the legend in the graphical view
• Visibility of the measurement curves
• Auto scaling of the Y axes
• Type of the measurement curves in the graphical view
• Column widths of the tabular view
• Legend settings
Clicking the Default button in the Open Preconfiguration/Save Preconfiguration dialog
will load the default graph, legend and legend layout settings.
Otherwise the preconfiguration handling for Measurement Reports works in a same way
as for Trends, see Section 9.6 Preconfigurations.
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11.8 Authorizing
Measurement reports follow the authorization concept of MicroSCADA Pro. The
authorization level is checked from the authorization group REPORTS. If this
authorization group does not exist, the authorization level of the group GENERAL is
used.
The following functions in the Report views require at least authorization level 1:
• Add, remove or edit comments
• Manually enter values
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The current Quick Report configuration can be saved with a unique name and is available
from the report page selection box.
Quick Reports are available on hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and yearly basis. The
report data can be viewed both in tabular and in graphical form.
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Index
A
G
Acknowledge
All ..................................................................... 83 Graphical view .................................................... 143
Current page .................................................... 83 Graphic view mode ............................................. 105
Acknowledgement Dialog ..................................... 88
Activation .............................................................. 64 H
Active acknowledged alarms ................................ 84
AI type process object .......................................... 82 History Database (HDB) ....................................... 76
Alarm blocking ...................................................... 86
Alarm buffer .................................................... 85–86
Alarm classes ....................................................... 86
I
Alarm row ............................................................. 30 Incoming binary signal .......................................... 82
Alarm text line ....................................................... 81 Incoming process data ......................................... 85
Analog measured value ........................................ 82 Internal events ...................................................... 76
Authorization level .............................................. 152
L
B Latest Alarm ......................................................... 83
BI type process object .......................................... 82 Logout ................................................................... 12
Blocking Display toolbar ....................................... 90 automatic logout after inactivity ........................ 12
time based logout ............................................. 12
C
Color settings ........................................................ 72
M
Communication failure .......................................... 82 Measurement Reports ........................................ 137
Current alarm situation ......................................... 85 Display Toolbar functions ....................... 102, 139
Main Toolbar functions ................................... 138
D menu .............................................................. 141
toolbars ........................................................... 138
DB type process object ........................................ 82 Measurements Reports
Defining filters ....................................................... 68 display header ................................................ 141
dialog
Color Setting Tool ............................................. 61
Double indication .................................................. 82
N
Navigation toolbar .............................................. 141
E Navigation toolbar functions ............................... 107
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Q T
Quick Reports ..................................................... 152 Tabular view ........................................................ 145
Add comments ............................................... 151
R Edit value ........................................................ 150
Time column ................................................... 149
Registration .......................................................... 64 Template 1 ............................................................ 82
Report data time based logout ................................................. 12
exporting ......................................................... 152 Trends Display ...................................................... 97
S U
Signal .................................................................... 89 Unacknowledged alarms ...................................... 86
Starting
Alarm Display ................................................... 82
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