dohlfhauldhagen
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Hello all. I am working with a CompactLogix running version 30.12, and a Panelview Plus 700 running version 9.0. The customer wants me to read strings from the PLC for the alarm messages instead of directly typing all of the messages in on FactoryTalk. The issue I'm having is that when I insert a string variable into the alarm message, it shows up as the literal string tag like /*S:0 {[MAIN]Alarms.Alarm[8].Text}*/, instead of the String that is stored in that tag. I have attached a few images, and the first image shows how I have the alarm messages set up. The second shows the tags in the PLC and the string that they store. And finally, the third shows what some of the alarms randomly show up as. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. It's really random.
I should also mention that it only seems to happen on Alarm Status List objects. I do not have this issue with Alarm Lists, which is really puzzling to me. Does anyone have any ideas on what could be causing this? It looks like it was an issue back in version 6.x that was supposed to be fixed, based on my googling. Obviously not. Any help is greatly appreciated!
I should also mention that it only seems to happen on Alarm Status List objects. I do not have this issue with Alarm Lists, which is really puzzling to me. Does anyone have any ideas on what could be causing this? It looks like it was an issue back in version 6.x that was supposed to be fixed, based on my googling. Obviously not. Any help is greatly appreciated!