RatherBeFishing
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Hello everyone,
I have a line that is currently running an older version SE local station application. I took a backup of it and "updated" it by restoring it in FactoryTalk View Studio ver. 8.0 on a 32bit virtual machine, then created a backup again and restored the new backup on my 64bit machine (a work around of the legacy tag database conversion). All of that appears to have went well. I also have the PLC file (a SLC 5/05). I am simultaneously working on the programing for both the PLC and HMI and it is going, except for the alarms. I can see the alarms are setup in the HMI Tags, quite nicely too. The previous programmer was pretty well structured. All of the Alarm tags are pointing to file B12. In the program file B12 is labeled as "HMI Alarms", BUT not a single part of file B12 is in the PLC program!! I have found that file B20 is setup for all the same alarms as the alarm tags in the HMI, but the HMI doesn't reference anything in file B20 from what I can find.
What am I missing? I know the alarms work! I have seen them myself on the HMI and know the logic behind alarming works. I just can't figure out how I should be configuring new alarms???
I attached screen shots to help convey my problem. HELP!
I have a line that is currently running an older version SE local station application. I took a backup of it and "updated" it by restoring it in FactoryTalk View Studio ver. 8.0 on a 32bit virtual machine, then created a backup again and restored the new backup on my 64bit machine (a work around of the legacy tag database conversion). All of that appears to have went well. I also have the PLC file (a SLC 5/05). I am simultaneously working on the programing for both the PLC and HMI and it is going, except for the alarms. I can see the alarms are setup in the HMI Tags, quite nicely too. The previous programmer was pretty well structured. All of the Alarm tags are pointing to file B12. In the program file B12 is labeled as "HMI Alarms", BUT not a single part of file B12 is in the PLC program!! I have found that file B20 is setup for all the same alarms as the alarm tags in the HMI, but the HMI doesn't reference anything in file B20 from what I can find.
What am I missing? I know the alarms work! I have seen them myself on the HMI and know the logic behind alarming works. I just can't figure out how I should be configuring new alarms???
I attached screen shots to help convey my problem. HELP!