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1. Disable If the checkbox is checked the alarm setting of this alarm tag is disabled and no alarm processing is performed on the tag at runtime The disabled alarm tag will also appear in gray color in the Alarm Tags list Close Press button to end alarm setting and close the dialog Help Press button to open help document related to this topic 5 60 Chapter 5 Alarm Alarm Related System Tags Some of the system tags are used to provide key information of the whole alarm system The system tags related to alarm includes ALARM Its value is the number of active alarms The number includes those alarms that are acknowledged but not reset Its message is the alarm message of the unacknowledged alarm with the highest priority in the system Its value is O if all alarms reset ALM_PRI ALM_PRI Its value is the priority of the active and unacknowledged alarm tag with the highest priority value If all alarm tags are reset or acknowledged its value will be 0 When an Alarm Wav Player object is used to play a sound file when alarm occurs ALM_PRI is recommended to be used as the Control tag of this object The sound file will be played when there are still some unacknowledged alarms The sound will stop playing when all active alarms are acknowledged or reset NEW_ALM Its value is set to 1 whenever a new alarm occurs Users can set this tag to 0 using SmartPanel objects or any othe
2. Delay Time optional field This parameter specify the time in seconds an alarm Tag reach its alarm condition before the system recognize its alarm status and activate the subsequent alarm actions Delay Time is a number between 0 65535 lf Reset Delay option of the alarm tag is also checked delay of the same time will also be applied to alarm reset When the alarm condition is cleared the same amount of time will also be waited before the system reset the alarm 5 18 Chapter 5 Alarm Reset Delay optional field This parameter specifies whether the Delay Time setting will be applied to alarm reset If checked alarm will not be reset until the specified delay time elapsed after alarm condition is cleared If this option is not checked an alarm will be reset as soon as its alarm condition is cleared Reset Msg mandatory field This parameter specifies the content of the reset message It is a string with length limit of 80 characters High Low Limit High mandatory field High limit of the alarm tag If the value of the alarm tag is greater than or equal to the limit High Alarm occurs This parameter can either be a constant value or a tag name If a tag name is set the value of that tag at run time is used as high limit Alarm Msg This parameter specifies the message content of the high alarm message It is a string with length limit of 80 characters If no message is defined the field is left blank Hi
3. ii Lab LINK for Windows Report Sysetm Type ReportT1 y Preview Exit Date YYMOMD A 10 Print CJ OANA UP WN If data expiration setting in Data Group is Never year month and day all must be selected 7 20 Chapter 7 Report Lab LINK for Windows Report Sysetm Type ReportT1 pae crvmnn a Preview and Print After a report and a date are selected press button to retrieve the data and show them on the screen Drag the vertical scroll bar in a text report is it exceeds the display Column statistics are shown at the bottom of the text report To print the report press button ii Lab LINK for Windows Report Sysetm Type ReportT1 Date Y MO DD 2006 8 10 5 Time Tagi Tag2 Tag3 Tag4 HH MM SS 11 13 50 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 11 17 15 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 11 17 20 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 11 17 25 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 11 17 30 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 11 17 35 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 11 17 40 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 11 17 45 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 11 17 50 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 11 17 55 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 11 18 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 11 18 05 19 87 43 72 69 86 93 33 11 18 10 19 87 43 72 69 86 93 33 11 18 15 19 87 43 72 69 86 93 33 11 18 20 19 87 43 72 69 86 93 33 11 18 25 19 87 43 72 69 86 93 33 19 87 43 72 69 86 0 00 0 00 0 00 6 21 13 66 21 83 218 58 349 29 Date YY MO DD 2006 100 14 12 Time Hour 7 21 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Exit Report If Report is run
4. 10 20 Chapter 10 IO Drivers only be written when tag data changed in Lab LINK afterward Gain Offset Mask and Shift Mask shift gain and offset operation will be performed in the stated order upon the raw data read from the I O device before doing data type conversion These parameters will be discussed in detail later Disable Disable Click on the check box to disable the I O tag When checked the I O tag won t be read and written by the I O driver at runtime Remark Remark Enter a short text to describe the I O Tag I O Tag Setting Using Data Item Names Some I O devices do not use addresses to specify data Some I O devices does have address but each address representing specific data This is most commonly seen in PID controllers To simplify the I O driver configuration for these devices Lab LINK provides a I O setting dialog for this kind of drivers Instead of specifying address I O tags are mapped to I O point by selecting a data item name Similar to previous I O setting dialog left of the dialog are Tags list and IO Tags list and right half of the dialog is the setting for the selected IO Tag 10 21 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual REX Settine RKC REX Series Controller R5485 Disable Tag Name Tagi Device vet Pet Data Iter WERGE RR Remark Tag Conversion Data in EU Raw Data Gain Offset fe Calculate Gain and Offset Gain and Offset Raw Data Data in
5. Alarm can be assigned Priority to determine which alarm should be processed first O Alarm message can be printout immediately Q Eight types of alarm condition can be defined QO Operator can acknowledge alarms when they occur QO Alarm message and Reset message can be logged in a history file QO Active alarm and alarm history can be shown separately OQ LogView alarm report program let user query of alarm records by time or categories and print them as report Q Various actions can be taken when alarms occur 5 1 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Architecture Same as other modules Alarm module receive real time Tag data from Tag Manager and can communicate with other modules through Tags Alarm module can respond with the change of Tag data to reflect its alarm status and send the status to other module if necessary Alarm can be divided to two parts OQ Alarm Manager It is responsible for detecting of any alarm condition and conduct actions when alarms occur QO Log Manager It is responsible for the logging of alarm history Alarm Processing There are three stages from the occurrence till the clearing of an alarm Q Alarm The state of an alarm Tag changes from normal to abnormal Alarm action such as printing and alarm output will be taken when an alarm occurs Q Acknowledge Operator conduct an operation on Lab LINK to indicate that it acknowledge the alarm QO Reset The state of an alarm Tag ch
6. Basic Setting Dialog Alarm Log Option Single Log Combine Active History Combine active alarm messages and alarm history in the same database Alarm acknowledge and reset messages are all recorded in this database in the sequence of occurring time Dual Log Separate Active History Active alarm and alarm history are store separately in two different databases Alarm and acknowledge message of any active alarm is kept in the Active Alarm Database When an alarm reset its alarm and acknowledge messages are removed from the Active Alarm Database combined with the reset message and stored in the Alarm History Database as a history record Alarm Printer Alarm messages can be printed immediately by setting Print Message in alarm action setting The setting is used to specify which printer will be used for alarm message printing A dot matrix printer is recommended for this application due to its line printing 5 6 Chapter 5 Alarm nature Since alarm messages code is sent directly to the printer bypassing Windows Print Manager if non English messages are used it is expected that the printer has appropriate code and fonts built in Three options are available for this setting LPT1 Use the printer connected to printer port LPT 1 LPT2 Use the printer connected to printer port LPT2 None No alarm printing despite the setting in alarm action of alarm Tags You may need to remap a network print
7. Open IO Driver Setting dialog Right click on an I O Driver in the Project window and select Properties from its popup menu to open its setting dialog There are two configuration style of Lab LINK I O Driver setting For I O devices whose I O memory are freely used by users and not limited to store specific information only Ex PLC usage of I O depends on its program the setting dialog will ask developer to specify I O type and address for each I O Tag For I O devices whose specific I O address contain specific information Ex PID controller its specific I O represent present value or set point the setting dialog will present a list of possible parameters in the device for the developer to choose and map to I O Tags Besides Lab LINK 4 also provides a new configuration setting style for the I O address 10 11 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual base devices These configurations will be discussed in the sections follows I O Tag Setting Using I O Address Most I O Drivers belong to this category Each tag is mapped to one or more I O addresses in the I O device As shown in the figure below left of the dialog is Tags list showing all the tags in the workstation Next to the Tags list is IO Tags list showing all the IO tags added into this IO driver Select a tag from the IO Tags lists and its setting appears on the right half of the dialog MODEM Setting Modbus Master Device E5485 Add VO Tags Disable Tag Name
8. Name Disable Froperties File JREPORT EXE BI Executer TAG Setting x Parameters PRO JECT PROJTCPOWWES TVREPORT CAT g E n Tn l 1 Work Folder Soule gern E otate Normal and Activated Cancel cose Properties File REPORT EXE Parameters PROJECT ProjectName CFG WorkstationName REPORT CAT Tag Setting Control A tag related to a control object should be selected For example the Target Tag of the Button object used to run the report Please refer to SmartPanel User s Manual for details of the Executioner object Command line parameters of runtime Report module will be discussed later Running Report with a Windows Shortcut Report module can be run alone without the runtime Lab LINK Project In this case a shortcut can be created Command line parameters of runtime Report module will be discussed later Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Command Parameters of Report Module No matter how the runtime Report module is run the following command parameters should be used SystemPath REPORT EXE ReportCatPath XCord YCord Width Height SystemPath is the system folder path of Lab LINK If the default installation path is used when you install Lab LINK the path should be c LabLINK System4 REPORT EXE is the program file of runtime Report module Other parameters are described as follows ReportCatPath ReportCatPath specifies the path of the Report Catalog File This file is part of the r
9. Select New to create a new project New Project Wizard will appear to guide you through the procedures New Project Wizard 1 New Project Wizard 1 Please Enter Note Project Name e Flease enter a new project name A project folder of the same name containing related files and subfolders will be created Note l Project name is limited te 64 characters 4 Project name cannot contain space or special characters New Project Wizard 1 Enter project name Page 1 of New Project Wizard of will request for a new project name The name will also be use to created the project folder under lablink project All files related to the project should be store under the project folder 2 4 Chapter 2 PAM Press Next button to enter page 2 of New Project Wizard New Project Wizard 2 Page 2 of New Project Wizard of will request for new workstation names A project can contain one or more workstations Each workstation can have separate configuration for their panels alarm data report functions New Project Wizard 2 Please Enter Hote Please enter workstation name New Workstation MRE Only one workstation name is needed for a single machine project ne workstation name is needed Project Proje for each workstation in a network Existing Workstations Delete All project eystem will create required subfolders and files for each workstation Note 1 Workstation name cannot contain more
10. Alarm Tags select a Tag and press Add Alarm button to add it as a digital alarm Tag The Tag will appear in the Alarm Tags list Alarm Setting Name mandatory field This parameter defines the name of the alarm Tag when it appears in the alarm message The limit on the length is 80 characters A string enclosed in a pair of square brackets can appear in the beginning of Name and a gi character can be used in the category string to separate main category and sub category The strings will be used by the add on LogView alarm report module as categories for queries For example the message for an alarm Tags with Name Area A Reactor Temperature and alarm message too high may display its alarm message as 2006 01 01 12 00 00 Area A Reactor Temperature too high LogView will have two levels of categories for queries User can search for alarm records with major categories of Area A and minor category of Reactor Priority mandatory field When more than one alarm occurs at the same time Priority is used to determine which alarm will be handled first Priority should be between 1 255 with the higher value representing higher priority A system tag ALM_PRI is used to show the highest Priority value in all active unacknowledged alarms Deadband optional field This parameter specifies a dead band range Dead band is designed to avoid the annoyance of frequent alarm and reset of an analo
11. Delete D button to delete an alarm tag from Alarm Tags list and remove its alarm settings Disable If the checkbox is checked the alarm setting of this alarm tag is disabled and no alarm processing is performed on the tag at runtime The disabled alarm tag will also appear in gray color in the Alarm Tags list Close Press button to end alarm setting and close the dialog Help Press button to open help document related to this topic 9 42 Chapter 5 Alarm Timeout Alarm Setting Suitable for digital Tags When the value of the alarm tag changed it is compared with the value of a Reference Tag If the value of the Reference Tag doesn t change with the alarm tag in a specified manner within a specified time limit Timeout Alarm will occur This alarm type is further divided into two sub types TO and T1 TO alarm occurs if the Reference Tag s value is still the same as the value of the alarm tag after timeout T1 alarm occurs if the Reference Tag s value is still different from the value of the alarm tag after timeout This alarm type is usually to determine whether a control output the alarm tag is completed successfully or not by checking it with a feedback input the Reference Tag Due to its nature Timeout Alarm cannot reset by itself based on the change of alarm tag value Therefore please always check on the Action option of Reset When Acked and use user acknowledgement to rest this type of alarm Alarm Setting
12. Deviation Alarm Alarm Tags Disable r lag Name AS Name Mew Alarm Priority E i Output Tag Deadband Alm Group 0 E Delay Time 0 Sec Reset delay Reset Msg Normal Dewiation Base ia H Alarm Msg Low alarm Deviation L Alarm Msg High alarm Femark Action lv Log to Database Print Message Reset When Acked lv Los to History System Tags lv Set ENEW_ALM Trigger Output Play TTS Voice Add Alarm 4 Lu Tags Add Tags list shows all the Tags in Tag database Click on the check box System Tag to show system Tags in the list if one of system Tags needs to be used as a digital alarm You can also add a new Tag by pressing button on top of the Tags list Alarm Tags Select a Tag and press Add Alarm button to add it as a digital alarm Tag The Tag will appear in the Alarm Tags list 5 36 Chapter 5 Alarm Alarm Setting Name mandatory field This parameter defines the name of the alarm Tag when it appears in the alarm message The limit on the length is 80 characters A string enclosed in a pair of square brackets can appear in the beginning of Name and a character can be used in the category string to separate main category and sub category The strings will be used by the add on LogView alarm report module as categories for queries For example the message for an alarm Tags with Name Area A Reactor Temperatur
13. Mvorkstationvyks 1 Tags Network Tags Disable Tag Name None ACcess Update Rate Remark Delete ee To delete a network tag select it from the Network Tags list and press button To edit the properties of a network tag select it from the Network Tags list and edit the fields shown on the right half of the dialog The properties are discussed as follows 9 8 Chapter 9 Network Connection Tag Name Display the tag name of the tag selected from the Network Tags list Access Specify the limitation of client workstation on the access of the network tag There are two options 1 Read Write Client workstation can read and write the content of the tag Any change on the content of the tag on server workstation will be sent to the client workstation If the content of the network tag is modified by the client workstation the change will also be sent to the server workstation and the content of this tag on the server workstation will also be modified as well 2 Read Only Client can only read the content of the tag Any change on the content of the tag on server workstation will be sent to the client workstation However the client workstation cannot modify the content of the tag on the server workstation Update Rate Specify how frequent the server workstation should update the content of the tag to the client workstation The server scans the content of the tag internally If this property is
14. SECU a A a senate atestenemicets deussciabece 3 3 EX SC UO Ile acti sicteaeiesnen data a a a 3 4 PROV ANNGS Give his veces ainsamnnred manent javavadadd mas vensencaind ainanbe uisanaciceinsatenscasameicntnne bemensideeunciaeeens 3 4 Add Workstation 3 5 Copy Workstation 3 6 Delete Workstation 3 6 Rename 3 7 Chapter 4 TAG Tag 4 Tag Manager 4 1 Tag Naming Rule 4 1 Tag Data Structure 4 2 Tag Manager Dialog 4 3 System Tag 4 4 Add Tag 4 4 Delete Tag 4 5 Rename Tag 4 6 Tag Basic Setting 4 7 Tag Admin 4 8 Chapter 5 Introduction 5 1 Features 5 1 Architecure 5 2 Alarm Processing 5 2 Alarm Logging 5 2 Alarm Log Format 9 3 Alarm Types 5 4 Expand and Collapse of Alarm Node 5 5 Basic Setting 5 5 AELOC ODON as ae ence Raster ce ree nner emMnn a eect manent tere n cee wanerT reer 5 6 PAV LUNN a AIS E AE sic ana ste A E ot aac icine AE S E E A E 5 6 Aa MO E aliie a E 5 7 Disable Alarm 5 8 Alarm Properties Setting 5 9 Digital Alarm Setting 5 10 High Low Alarm Setting 5 15 HH H L LL Alarm Setting 5 22 Rate of Change Alarm Setting 5 30 DeviationAlarm Setting 5 36 Timeout Alarm Setting 5 43 Trip Alarm Setting Event Alarm Setting Alarm Related System TagSetting Chapter 6 Data Introduction Features Expand and Collapse of Data Node Add Data Group Basic Setting Ha 6 PER ete se ce eS T AAE E D A A File NAME PVCU AE E EA E Seeker EEE teas E dade dudes EE AIAT A A E File Type Data Fle Forma sesi a AE BiA eA e i
15. TagName Date Date m d y Tag s date LABLINK TAGINFO TagName Time Time hh mm ss LABLINK TAGINFO TagName Message Tot fags message Note Tag name Is case sensitive After the procedures real time tag data should appear in the cells 8 7 Introduction Network connections enable Lab LINK workstation s to share real time data across network With this feature it is possible to monitor and control your system at a remote location or even from a foreign country through the internet Features a Use standard TCP IP protocols and thus support intranet and internet Q No file server required a Peer to peer connection with high efficiency QO Workstations can either be server client or both at the same time a Tags can be set as read only for clients to limit its access OQ Servers can support multiple concurrent clients QO Will recover from network disconnection automatically Communication status can be detected and sent to Communication Tags Architecture When multiple workstations are involved in a Lab LINK project workstations can play one of both rules QO Server Provider of tag data They are usually connected to I O devices to collect real time data or send control output A server workstation can provide service to multiple client workstations and the same time by sending real time data to them across network OQ Client Receiver of real time data They are usually used for r
16. Take 3 words of consecutive address starting with the specified address and convert its value into a 6 character string using ASCII coding The data will be sent to the Message field of the tag Q 8 ASCII D Take 4 words of consecutive address starting with the specified address and convert its value into a 8 character string using ASCII coding The data will be sent to the Message field of the tag Q 10 ASCII E Take 5 words of consecutive address starting with the specified address and convert its value into a 10 character string using ASCII coding The data will be sent to the Message field of the tag Q 12 ASCII F Take 6 words of consecutive address starting with the specified address and convert its value into a 12 character string using ASCII coding The data will be sent to the Message field of the tag 10 19 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Q 14 ASCII G Take 7 words of consecutive address starting with the specified address and convert its value into a 14 character string using ASCII coding The data will be sent to the Message field of the tag Q 16 ASCII H Take 8 words of consecutive address starting with the specified address and convert its value into a 16 character string using ASCII coding The data will be sent to the Message field of the tag Sign Sigm UnSigned U This parameter is used only when I O values are converted to integer related data types It will determine whether the converted integer is sig
17. This tool can be used to add delete or rename tags for each workstation It can also be used to manage Panel Tags and copy tags among workstations Left half of the Tag Administration windows list all the workstations in the project Click on a workstation its tags will be shown on the right half of the window Click on the Panel Tag node on top of the workstation list will show all panel tags in this project The System tag check box on the upper right corner of the windows can be is used to switching whether the system tags of the selected workstation will be shown or not To close the Tag Administration windows click on the X button on upper right corner of the window Tag administration Proj22 Workstation Wks1 ig Panel Tag Workstation may Wes 1 4 8 Chapter 4 Tag Tag Administration windows provide the following tag operations QO New After selecting a workstation right click on the right half of the window and select New from the popup menu the New Tag dialog will appear New Tag New tag name Enter a new tag name and press OK Tag content dialog appear to allow detail setting of the new tag Finish detail setting and press OK the new tag will appear in the tag list of the workstation Tas content Workstation Wes 1 Tag4 Femark Tag Init Initial value Initial message Tag keep Cancel QO Delete Right click on a tag in the tag list and select Delete from the p
18. Write the modified data to tag when pressed 4 TagView HOK o A TAG Name Name OO a SERROR USER status seal Input Output 4LM_PRI Unknown Uncertain Fault ane Off Line On Line TIME Date time y Aut RUN Tag List aE EXIT Tag Data Date Time sLocouT OISK Data Taq 3 Taq vawe fs ta Tags Write Dutton Tag View window Tag List Tag List shows all the tags in use by currently running project including user defined tags and system tags Use the scroll bar to browse through the tags and click on a tag to show its data on 14 2 Chapter 14 TagView the left Tags in the Tag List can be sorted by clicking on the Tag Name label Tags will be listed in alphabetic order Click again will reverse the order and the third click will return it to the original order Sorting can help users to locate a tag in the list After the tags are sorted click to select any tag name in the list The selected will be highlighted Key in the tag name you are looking for on the keyboard and the list will scroll to the tag name typed TAG Data Tag data of the tag selected from Tag List is shown on the left half of Tag View User can view or modify these real time data Tag data include J Name The name of the selected tag J State The state of the selected States are further divided into two categories gt Input State Show the input state of the tag status Input Output Unknown C Un
19. io A TAG Name Name SERROR USER Status 4LARM put Output ALM_PRI a CO Unknown CO Uncertain Fault IDLE a E BLINK O OffLine On Line E TIME i RIJN Date time Auto aya DISK Data Tagi 1 B Tag Tags Write Total Tag State Click on a State name to modify the state of the tag and press button Tag Date Time When any other data field of the selected tag is changed the Date Time fields of the tag will be updated automatically to reflect the actual date time the change occurs To modify the Date Time fields manually unselect the Auto option to stop the automatic date time update when other data change Use keyboard to key in the date and or time in the fields and press button to modify the Date Time manually Be sure to activate the Auto option by selecting it again to resume the automatic Date Time update function in Tag View Note Auto setting will only affect the operation in Tag view Change of data by other source ex IO scan or object operation will still update the Date Time disregard this setting Tag Content Click on Value or Message field and editing cursor will appear to allow editing of the content Modify the content using keyboard and press button to change the data Isolation The button next to the Tag Name field is the Isolation button When the button is pressed down its shape changes to T This indicates that the data of the selected tag in Tag View is isolated fro
20. lt Need CR gt command Default value is 1 which means lt CR gt should be added Set this parameter to 0 if lt CR gt is not used Basic setting Device After the setting of communication parameter in basic setting of an I O driver press button to configure each device connected to this I O driver On the left of the Device setting dialog is the Existing Devices list that shows all the devices already added into the I O driver Select a device and its setting is shown on the right half of the dialog After all devices are added and configured press button to return to the previous basic setting dialog Add a New Device Press button enter a device name and press to add a new device Set the following parameters for the newly added device 10 8 Chapter 10 IO Drivers Add Device New Device Namethi Enter device name METCE Basic Setting Modbus TCP Master Device Ethernet Existing Devices Device DWC Device Type Station Comm Taz Femark Device setting Device Name Specify a name for the new device The name will be used as the identification of the device through the setting of I O driver Device Type Select the type of the I O device usually the model number of the device For most I O driver this selection is irrelevant since all tyoes have the same communication protocol and the selection won t affect the communication result If an exact model name of the device you use can
21. 1142 Modify OPC Group Settnig eeeseses s sSSsSsSsSsSsi s Modify OPC Item Setting eee ae o OTA Chapter 12 Script Script File and Module 12 1 Add Script Module 12 2 Greate a NeW SOID eiracona a a a 12 3 Reference to an Existing Script ccccccccccssseeceecceeeseeeeeeeeeeceeeceeeeeeeessaaesesseseeaes 12 3 Edit Script 12 4 Delete Script Module 12 5 Disable Script 12 5 Chapter 13 Security Introduction 13 1 Login and Logout 13 1 Automatic Logout 13 2 System Tags Related to Security 13 3 User Setting 13 3 Run Security Editor 13 4 Display User Setting 13 5 Edit User Data 13 5 Add User 13 6 Delete User 13 7 Limitation on Use of Security Editor 13 7 Exit Security Editor and Save Setting 13 8 Option Setting 13 9 Security Setting File eeeseseseses lt iCW 18 10 Use Windows Authentication ee eseseses i lt i lt iC 18 11 Winsows Group Setting 13 12 Chapter 14 Tag View Introduction 14 1 Features eee 4 Run Tag View 14 1 Tagview Window 14 2 Tag List 14 2 Tag Data 14 3 Show Tag Data 14 4 Write Tag Data 14 4 Isolation 14 5 Fix Tag View Window on top 14 6 Exit Tag View 14 7 Chapter 15 Deployment Introduction 15 1 Single Machine Project 15 1 Network Project 15 2 Read Only Setting 15 3 Chapter 1 Installation system Requirement system Requirement UOUUUUU U Installation CPU Pentium Il 800 MHz Pentium4 2 4GHz or
22. Delay gt lt Error Count gt lt Retries gt lt ExtraParm1 gt lt Clear Value gt lt ExtraParm2 gt Number and meaning of these extra parameters differ among I O drivers Please see the figure below or other Lab LINK I O Driver documents for details VO Driver Specify whether checksum should be Advantech used in the communication protocol or Adam 4000 5000 lt ExtraParm1 gt lt Use Checksum gt not Default value is 0 which means do not use checksum Set this parameter to 1 if check sum is used Specify whether checksum should be used in the communication protocol or ICP DAS l 7000 lt ExtraParm1 gt lt Use Checksum gt not Default value is 0 which means do not use checksum Set this parameter to 1 if check sum is used Specify the maximum block size that can be read written in a Modbus Modbus RTU eee aan PGMA RIOG IZ command Unit of this parameter IS byte and the default value is 32 ee Always use multiple set fiction code lt ExtraParm2 gt lt Force Multi Write gt when setting register or coil values Specify the maximum block size that can be read written in a Modbus Modbus TCP Steel AnD SEK EES s command Unit of this parameter is byte and the default value is 250 oe Always use multiple set fiction code lt ExtraParm2 gt lt Force Multi Write gt When setting register or coil values Specify whether lt CR gt should be used as ending code in each communication Yokogawa PLC lt ExtraParm1i gt
23. Development Environment IDE of Lab LINK Security Editor The user management tool of Lab LINK o o 1 TagView The Test and Debug Tool of Lab LINK O Help Lab LINK documentation o Demo A Lab LINK demo project runtime shorcut Software protection LS SOL LOGS HOES Chapter 1 Installation All Lab LINK for Windows products come with a software protection dongle keypro The dongle must be properly connected to the parallel port or USB port of your computer for Lab LINK to execute normally Lab LINK will be in evaluation mode when the dongle is not detected Under evaluation mode Lab LINK has the following limits 1 Execution of Lab LINK runtime will end in 60 minutes O The number of IO Tag cannot exceed 48 O The panel file created by Panel Editor will be save a special format that is not compatible with those used by a licensed edition Lab LINK 1 3 PAM is the Integrated Development Environment IDE of Lab LINK It is used to develop a Lab LINK project and the configuration of each Lab LINK modules used in this project Start PAM After the installation of Lab LINK select Start All Program Lab LINK 4 for Windows PAM to run PAM and begin the development of a project Lab LINK for Windows PAM Project Administration Manager Project F View V Run R Tool T Hep D La lef Ga ha E E ii New Open Save Close Generate Run Stop Report Tagview Security Help Welcome to
24. Editor can not edit the default security setting file 4 The edit default security file should be copied to the user defined path Execution Click on Execution tag to select Execution page This page defined the Root Panel and the applications that need to start with the project A Root Panel is the first panel file loaded by Lab LINK runtime system when it starts a project Default Root Panel has the same file name as the workstation Enter a different panel file name in the Root Panel File field to replace the default setting It is also possible to specify some applications to be run as the Lab LINK runtime starts 3 3 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual This is most often used to start add on module of Lab LINK By entering the command to execute the add on module or any other application program you wish to run they will be run when the Lab LINK runtime project is executed Please remember to include all necessary parameters in the command line Workstation Wksl Basic Setting Identification Execution Root Panel Filet Pal Use Default Root Panel Wks l pnl Fun these applications when start Lab LINE Femark 1 These applicaitons will be executed when the project starts 2 Please include complete command line parameters the applications need 3 System working folder will be Lab LINE system folder when the project starts 4 Please make sure these applications can be correctly executed at runtime OE Cance
25. Files Jo TJ Alarm T Data T Report J 18 Driver J DDE Connection J OPC Connection J Network Connection oy iat Crip An Add SmartScript dialog will appear to allow the selection of Script File source There are two selections available Create a new script and Reference to an existing script 12 2 Chapter 12 Script Add SmartScript Flease Enter Description Script Name CSLPRG Please enter a script name e Create a new script The seript module will be run with the Lab LINE project to oe perform user programmed Reference to an existing script dunctions Project Name Proj A project can contain multiple Please select a script script modules eeveral workstation can have script modules referencing the same script file Whe a workstation start it will run all the script module defined Cancel Help Create a new script lf Create a new script is selected and a name is entered in the Script Name field the system will create a new blank script file in the CSL subfolder of the project and run SmrtScript Editor to load the empty for user to edit Add SmartScript CSLPRG1 csl Control File Edit View Run Help Please Enter Description De at H praa R amp S Please enter a script name Script Name i The script module will be run Create a new script with the Lab LINK project to br perform user programmed Reference to an existing script dunctions Project Name Projl A project ca
26. Group Are you sure you want to delete the OPC Group Groupa Note When an OPC Group is deleted all OPC Items belong to it will also be deleted However the Lab LINK tags mapped to these items will remain intact in the project Delete OPC Server OPC Connection OPC1 OPC cewe OPC Group OPC Sere ests a ER ervey w Add OFC Serwer Add OPC Group L ab LINK Delete OPC Server Test TestServer 4 1 Delete an OPC Server To delete an OPC Server first open the OPC Connection window Right click on the OPC Server to be deleted and select Delete OPC Server A message box appears to request for confirmation Press to confirm the deletion or press to cancel the operation Note When an OPC Server is deleted all the OPC Group and OPC Items belong to it will also be deleted However the Lab LINK tags mapped to these items will remain intact in the project 11 12 Chapter 11 OPC Connection Modify OPC Group Setting OPC Connection OPC1 OPC serverfOPC Group OPT S Test TestServer v1 sLocal gt Lab L P Groupi Tagq_ Add OPC Server Add OPC Group Add OP tem Delete OPC Group Groupo OPC Group SroupO Properties Modify OPC Group Setting To delete an OPC Group first open the OPC Connection window Right click on the OPC Group to be modified and select OPC Group Properties OPC Group Content dialog will appear to allow editing of the properties of this OPC group After al
27. LINK for Windows User Manual HH H L LL Alarm Setting Suitable for analog Tags Two sets of high limits and low limits can be set in this alarm High High alarm occurs when the value of alarm tag is grater than or equal to high high limit High alarm occurs when the value of alarm tag is grater than or equal to high limit but smaller than the high high limit Low alarm occurs when the alarm tag value is smaller than or equal to the low limit but greater than the low low limit Low Low alarm occurs when the alarm tag value is smaller than or equal to the low low limit Alarm Setting HH H L LL Ala Disable Tag Name AG Name New Alarml Halt Tag z Priority i Gutput Tag r Deadband we Alm Greup 0 Delay Time 0 mec Reset delay Reset Msg Nox mal HL Limits ne j Alarm Mss High alarm L Y Alarm Mise Low alarm HHILL Limits Hel v Alarm Msg High High alarm ILJLe Alarm Msg Low Low alarm Femark Actions V Log to Database Print Message Reset When Acked Iv Log to History System Tags M Set NEW ALM Trigger Output Aad Ser col pp Um eke Delete Tags Add Tags list shows all the Tags in Tag database Click on the check box System Tag to show system Tags in the list if one of system Tags needs to be used as a digital alarm You can also add a new Tag by pressing button on top of the Tags list 5 22 Chapter 5 Alarm
28. Output Tag If no Output Tag is set this setting will be ignored Delete select a tag name from the Data Tags list and press button to remove it from the Data Group If the data tag is already used by a Report as its data source a warning message box will appear to indicate its usage Press button to confirm the deletion and all report setting related to this data tag will also be deleted Press button to cancel the operation DataGroup Setting The Tag is used by Report If deletion of this Tag is confirmed all Report configuration refering to this Tag will also be deleted cae 6 11 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Delete a Data Group Project Proji Properties Datacroup 15 Basic Add Data Group Delete DataGroup 1 Rename DataGroup 1 Disable Delete a Data Group Right on a Data Group and select Delete from its popup menu to delete it A message box will appear to ask for confirmation Press button to confirm the deletion or press button to cancel the operation If the Data Group has been used by any Report as its data source the report uses this Data Group will also be deleted Data Delete a Are vou sure you want to delete the Data group Datasroup 1 S The Data Group is referenced by 1 Report If the Data Group is deleted all Report reterenceing it will also be deleted Wks L TextReportl a Confirm the deletion of a Data group Rename a Data Group Right
29. Please see Project Info section for password details Open Project Password Flease enter password Open Project Enter Password amp 9 Password incorrect Please enter again Error message shown if the password entered is incorrect Read only Problem If any of the project file or folder is set with read only attribute PAM will not be able to open it Be sure to clear the read only attribute 2 6 Chapter 2 PAM Save Select Save from Project menu to save the change you made to the currently opened project Lab LINK for Windows F Tinie view Runt Pewi Ctl N Opent Ctl 0 ClaseiC Delete D Project Info T Projl Proj4 Proj1o Proje Exite Save as Select Save as to save the currently opened project to a new project with a different name Save as a New Project Please Enter New Name Proj Existing Projects af EA Froj Cancel Help Note When saved as a new project object definition in panel files related to file path designation may need modification due to the change of project folder Reference path described in Appendix can help on this issue 2 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Close Choose Close from Project menu to close the opened project Remember to save the project before closing Closing a project without saving it may cause the lost of all modification made to it Amessage will appear to remind user about this Lab LINK
30. Tag to 0 Action when No extra action For IO Tags with Access setting Read communication once Write R1W their values will be resumed read from the IO device again 10 31 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Note Both reading and writing of all IO on a Suspended device are stopped Any change of the IO tag belonging to that IO device will not trigger the writing of data back to the device Output State of the tag will not reflect that data are not written back either 10 32 Chapter 11 OPC Connection Introduction OPC is a standard based on Microsoft COM DCOM technology and defined by OPC foundation to solve the problem of data communication between applications and IO devices from different venders Traditionally application developers have to write their own IO drivers to communicate with IO devices This may becomes a burden for developers and owners as well With the standard IO Drivers complying with OPC called OPC Servers can be used by any OPC compliant applications called OPC Client to communicate with IO devices the driver supports Lab LINK for Windows OPC Connection module is an OPC client complying with OPC DA standard You can use it to connect to any third party OPC servers to extend the connectivity of Lab LINK for IO devices Features o o o o o o o o o Comply with OPC Data Access Specification 2 05 Provide OPC Server browsing function and can search for installed OPC
31. Tagl Device DVC1 7 Fef LO Type Digital Input I Address 0 Remark Conversion Data in EU Raw Data taintOtiset te Calculate Gain and Offset Gain and Offset Faw Data Cata in EU Min 0 0 Crain Max 1 I Offset Calculate Gain and Offset Mask and Shift Mask OxFFFF A Shift 0 Delete Li m IO Tag Setting To add a new I O tag select a tag name from the Tags list and press Add IO Tag button The selected tag will appear in the IO Tags list and its setting can then be edited on the right half of the dialog To delete an I O tag select it from the IO Tags list and press button I O tag settings include Tag Name Tag Name Tag l Display the name of the tag being edited 10 12 Chapter 10 IO Drivers Device Device DVC Select the device the tag belongs to Click on the drop down list to display all the devices created in the basic setting Click on a device name from the list to select it I O Type Fie Type Digital Input Specify the I O type the tag is Use the drop down list to select the IO type The content of the list varies for different I O drivers Some common types include DI Digital input DO Digital output MI Internal coil read only MO Internal coil read write Al Analog input AO Analog output RI Register read only RO Register read write UAI Unsigned analog input UAO Unsigned analog output URI Unsigned re
32. Timeout Alarm Alarm Tags Disable Tag Name De Name New Alarm Halt Tag Fw Type Opposite State T1 gt Output Tag fF Priority bo Alm Group OO Delay Timej mec Reset delay 0 Alarm Msg la Alarm Alarm Mse l Alarm O Reference Tag l Limit 7 Remark Pn Action i Log to Database Print Message Reset When Acked e Log to History M System Tags e Set SEW _ALM Trigger Output Play TTS Voice Delete Add Alarm me lt i 9 43 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Tags Add Tags list shows all the Tags in Tag database Click on the check box System Tag to show system Tags in the list if one of system Tags needs to be used as a digital alarm You can also add a new Tag by pressing button on top of the Tags list Alarm Tags select a Tag and press Add Alarm button to add it as a digital alarm Tag The Tag will appear in the Alarm Tags list select a Tag in the Alarm Tags list and its alarm setting appears on the right half of the dialog Alarm Setting Name mandatory field This parameter defines the name of the alarm Tag when it appears in the alarm message The limit on the length is 80 characters A string enclosed in a pair of square brackets can appear in the beginning of Name and a character can be used in the category string to separate main category and sub category The strings will be used by the add on LogView alarm report module as categories f
33. Use the drop down list to select an I O device by clicking its name from the list 10 15 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual IO Type VO Type Coil CO Select the I O type of the I O tag Selectable types depend on the I O driver used Please use the drop down combo box to select the I O type the tag actually references IO Address 1 0 Address g Specify an integer that is the physical I O address on the I O device the tag references Range of the address varies with drivers In general a decimal integer is entered for this parameter However some I O devices may need an octal or hexadecimal address To enter an octal number please add a leading O before the address For example 017 indicates the octal number 17 that is equal to 15 in decimal number system To enter a hexadecimal number please add leading Ox or OX before the address or a trailing h or H after the address For example 0x17 0X18 17h and 17H all indicate the hexadecimal number 17 that equals 23 in decimal number system Data Type Bit j Data Type o This parameter defines how I O driver will convert the I O value into tag data In general there are two major types of data digital and analog Digital data are of bit type and analog data are of word type Bit data have values of either O or 1 but word data have more variation A word is usually composed of 16 bits and will be converted to a signed or unsigned integer In some application a tag
34. Users can change this default location by keying a different path To reset the path to its default press button Content of can be view using Alarm Log object in SmartPanel Disable Alarm Right click on Alarm node and select Disable from the popup menu to disable all alarm function Regenerate the project and Alarm module won t run next time the project is started To enable Alarm module again right click on Alarm node to select Enable and regenerate the project 5 8 Chapter 5 Alarm Project Proji Project Projt Disable Alarm ODE Connection J OPC Connection J OPC Connection T Network Connection H Network Connection Z Script Script Alarm Properties Setting Alarm Setting varies for different alarm types Right click on the node of a particular alarm type and select Properties to open its alarm setting dialog The following sections provide detail discussion on alarm setting for each alarm type Project Proji S Timeout Alarm amp Trip Alarm g Ewent Data 5 Report 10 Driver J DDE Connection J OPC Connection T Network Connection T Script Alarm Setting Note Each can only be added into an alarm type For example it Tag 1 added to Digital Alarm it can not be added to any other alarm type 5 9 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Digital Alarm Setting Suitable for digital Tags this alarm type can be further divided into two sub types Diland DO D1 ala
35. XYF Real time Data bac Files XYF Daily Files XDF O Text File TXT Store data in standard text file with data separated by comma in each data line It is easy for a database or spreadsheet application to import this file format The TXT data files are also daily files Their file names are similar to the Lab LINK data files but use extension name TXT Note Text files do not provide the monthly and yearly file generation function Each line in the Text File TXT is a data record Its format is as follows Ex 01 01 2004 16 25 45 3 689861 8 609298 13 516841 18 456700 01 01 2004 16 25 50 4 923448 9 852841 14 746981 19 665003 01 01 2004 16 25 55 4 592776 9 781235 14 925730 19 978451 01 01 2004 16 26 00 3 311509 8 777505 14 236629 19 483108 6 5 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual The format of date is in Month Day Year and the format of time is in Hour Minute Second Twenty four hour system is used in the time notation Data File Path Data Path Default Path AFroject Projt idat 0 User Defined Path ES Mote Flease make sure thatthe specified path exists and has proper privilege setting for Lab LINk to write data during runtime Use Default Path Select this option to store data under the default data folder dat under the project folder User Defined Path Specify a user defined path to store the data Please make sure that the specified path exi
36. a A E E ete te E EAEE A S ede nee enone E T EETA DARRIE ON Celt Ol ices ceatirde neler aia a eamnrenrienicnn Data Group Setting DAI GOW ert asset sce ein ect betitee a acacboascenatesaaielalseacatedenseseaies PAO Ge Call OU es cracamnacectcnaetante mincatierncen dammnnsesieyuancneirinaenuseusnctetn macnn caantenmnctea as neniens OMU TAG eeaeee a seasaed Sanaectamaet ad secsthalie Gamand OS otenn e a eat a a REMAK ensena a a a ey AC UON aa A E O eee Pelele a E A E A Delete a Data Group Rename a Data Group Disable Chapter 7 Report Introduction Features 5 49 5 55 5 61 6 1 6 1 6 2 6 2 6 3 6 10 6 10 6 11 6 11 6 12 6 12 6 13 7 1 7 1 Report Types 7 2 Add a Text Report 7 2 Basic Setting of Text Report 7 3 Text Report Setting 7 6 Add a Trend Report 7 9 Basic Setting of Trend Report 7 9 Trend Report Setting 7 12 Delete a Report 7 14 Adjust Report Order 7 15 Running the Report Module 7 16 Command Parameters of Report Module 7 18 Runtime Report Operation 7 19 SEIECIA REDON ae cote cada ce en at cout cad ihc Diente cals 7 19 SIS CTs AS crack seats ae sas cd enantio vas Saletan he na aie uh bed ede andeutaed Ue rake 7 20 Preview and FIN scciciiuetet areincanedulites Wii ciendtuti sade ianucuiil ence ttlvainentrel ee uamancnutiiates eet 7 21 EXIT REDO iee ca Dsleinc tds incase eeaeee cad de aredeliaiee tie deeiadu cas De usetdalaren Nideat 7 22 Chapter 8 DDE Connection Introduct
37. activate the subsequent alarm actions Delay Time is a number between 0 65535 lf Reset Delay option of the alarm tag is also checked delay of the same time will also be applied to alarm reset When the alarm condition is cleared the same amount of time will also be waited before the system reset the alarm Reset Delay optional field This parameter specifies whether the Delay Time setting will be applied to alarm reset If checked alarm will not be reset until the specified delay time elapsed after alarm condition is cleared If this option is not checked an alarm will be reset as soon as its alarm condition is cleared Reset Msg mandatory field This parameter specifies the content of the reset message It is a string with length limit of 80 characters 0 Alarm Msg mandatory field This parameter specifies the message content of the alarm message when the alarm occurs and the value of alarm tag is 0 It is a string with length limit of 80 characters 1 Alarm Msg mandatory field This parameter specifies the message content of the alarm message when the alarm occurs and the value of alarm tag is 1 It is a string with length limit of 80 characters Reference Tag mandatory field The Tag used to compare with the alarm tag to determine its alarm status 5 46 Chapter 5 Alarm Timeout mandatory field The time limit within which the corresponding response of Reference Tag following the cha
38. all active unacknowledged alarms Halt Tag optional field This parameter specifies a tag name If the tag is set to 1 processing of the alarm tag will be halted Neither the occurrence nor the reset of alarm will be detected If this setting is omitted the alarm tag is always effective The tag name set in this field cannot be identical to the Tag name in Output Tag field When the value of the Halt Tag is set to 1 system will Suspend all alarm functions of the alarm Tag including alarming acknowledgement and reset Therefore if the Halt Tag is set to 1 after the occurrence of an alarm the alarm will remain even when its alarm condition is cleared Only after the Halt Tag is set to 0 alarm processing of this alarm tag can then be restored and the system will determine whether the alarm should be reset or not Output Tag optional field This parameter specifies a tag name If the alarm occurs the value of Output Tag will be set to 1 When the alarm is acknowledged or reset its value will be set to 0 If this setting is omitted no alarm output action will be performed The tag name set in this field cannot be identical to the Tag name in Halt Tag field Setting of this parameter is effective only when Trigger Output is also set in alarm Action Alm Group mandatory field This parameter specifies the Alarm Group the alarm tag belongs to Alarm Group is a 5 51 Lab LINK for Wind
39. alone window location and size are not specified in command parameters there will be an button on top of report Press the button to exit Report If Report is run in a Lab LINK project window location and size are specified in command parameters Report will end when the Lab LINK project ends E Lab LINK for Windows Report Sysetm Type ReportT1 gt Preview 200 Date yy MO DD 2006 8 f10 Print Time Tagi Tag2 Tag3 Tag4 6 08 10 Exit Report Network Application If a remote source Data Group is specified in a Report s basic setting this indicates that Report need to retrieve the data file from another computer on the network at runtime Care should be taken when assigning data file path when defining the report in this scenario An example below is used to illustrate this application Project Report Workstation Wks1 Wks2 Data Group Wks1 DataGroup1 Wks2 None Wks1 Network settings Computer name W1 IP address 192 168 1 1 Folder shared Lab link Wks2 Network settings Map Lab link folder of computer W1 Workstation Wks1 to network drive F Report settings 1 22 Chapter 7 Report Source Wks1 DataGroup1 Wks1 DataGroup1 Data Group Data Path Default Data Path User Defined Path project Report dat f Project Report dat or W1 LabLINK Project Report dat or 192 168 1 1 LabLINK Project Report dat Report PROJECT Report cfg Wks7 report cat PROJECT Report cfg
40. and a new text report is created If no Data Group has been created for any workstation in the project a message box will appear to warn that a Report cannot be generated since there is no available Data Group Please finish the configuration for Data module first before attempting to add a report Add Trend Report A Cannot add a new Report because there is no usable Data Group to be referenced Only Data Group with XDF file type can be referenced by Report Please add at least one Data Group before adding a Report Basic Setting of Trend Report Right Click on a Trend Report and select Basic Setting from its popup menu to show its Basic Setting dialog Basic setting includes 7 9 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual amp Project Proji Report Hiii Report ii ee IO Driver ODDE Conn OPC Conn Network Ci script Properties Reports 1 Basic Setting Reportts 1 Add Report Delete Reports 1 Rename Reporte 1 Disable Source Data Group ReportGl Basic Setting source Data Group Wks DataGroup1 Data File Path Default Data Path WProject Proj dat f User Defined Path S Mote Please ensure the path specified is valid and has proper authorization setting for Lab LINk to access the data files during runtime Report Title 1 Report Title z Interval 200 Second YY Axis Setting Label hlin booo Minor Ticks 400 Mia hooo Major Ticks 5 Forma
41. be assigned to a workstation Remark Enter a short text to describe this Network Connection Activate Network Server Project Proji Modules J E Wks Fl Tag T Alarm Data Report ID Driver 9 DDE Connection Activate Metwork Serwer Activate Network Server Eg Add Network Connection l Network Server activated Activate Network server A workstation must activate its Network Server to become a server workstation Right click on the Network Connection node of the workstation in the Project window and select Activate Network Server A message appears to indicate that the server is activated Press button to close the message A check mark will also appear before the Activate Network Server item in the popup menu To shutdown the network server right click on the Network Connection node and select Activate Network Server again A message box will appear to indicate that the network server has been disabled When the server is disabled the check mark before the Activate Network Server popup menu item will also disappear Activation or deactivation of the network server has effect only after the project is regenerated and executed again 9 3 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Project Proji Modules Alarm J Data a Report J 10 Driver 9 ODE Connection v Activate Network Server Disable Network Server Add Network Connection 1 Network Server disabled
42. be identical to the Tag name in Halt Tag field Setting of this parameter is effective only when Trigger Output is also set in alarm Action Alm Group mandatory field This parameter specifies the Alarm Group the alarm tag belongs to Alarm Group is a number between 0 65535 and will be used by Alarm WAV Player object to determine which wave file should be played Please refer to SmartPanel Users Manual for detail 9 25 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual on the object Delay Time optional field This parameter specify the time in seconds an alarm Tag reach its alarm condition before the system recognize its alarm status and activate the subsequent alarm actions Delay Time is a number between 0 65535 If Reset Delay option of the alarm tag is also checked delay of the same time will also be applied to alarm reset When the alarm condition is cleared the same amount of time will also be waited before the system reset the alarm Reset Delay optional field This parameter specifies whether the Delay Time setting will be applied to alarm reset If checked alarm will not be reset until the specified delay time elapsed after alarm condition is cleared If this option is not checked an alarm will be reset as soon as its alarm condition is cleared Reset Msg mandatory field This parameter specifies the content of the reset message It is a string with length limit of 80 characters H L Limit H mandatory fie
43. cancel the operation Copy tag Erom WEsl Tag name Femark Initial value Initial message To Wks Tag name Tal Remark Pe E p Initial value OoOo Initial message pO Ignore Cancel 4 12 Chapter 4 Tag OQ Sort To help user easily find a tag users can click on column titles of the tag list to display tags in ascending or descending order by the selected column ny Tag administration Workstation Wks 1 Wks Left click on Tag name column title to sort the tags by their name and a A symbol appears to indicate that the tags are listed in ascending order Click on the column title again A V symbol is shown and the tags are sorted in descending order Click on the title again and the symbol disappears The tags will be listed in unsorted order Similar operation can be performed on the Remark column to sort tags according to their remarks 4 13 Chapter 5 Alarm Introduction Alarm module is used to provide alarming function in Lab LINK User can define alarm condition and how the system should respond to the alarm There some special requirements if certain alarm features are used Q Sound card interface and speaker are needed if sound or voice annunciation is expected when alarms occur Q Dot matrix printers are recommended for alarm printing Features O Alarm messages are user defined a Both I O Tags and non l O Tags can be defined as alarm Tags O
44. interval AVG The average of all the data in the report interval SUM The sum of all the data in the report interval Width Width of the column in number of characters Fraction Digit The number of fractional digits of the data to be displayed in the report Remark A short text can be entered for descriptive purpose This is for reference to the developer and will not be shown in the report Statistic Report can show statistic of each column of data at the bottom of the report They will be daily Statistic for daily report monthly statistic for monthly report yearly statistic for yearly report Four kinds of statistic can be selected separately for each column a Min The minimum data in the column a Max The maximum data in the column O Sum The sum of all data in the column Chapter 7 Report O Avg The average of all data in the column More than on statistic can be selected for each column Disable Disable the column A disabled column won t be shown at runtime Add a Trend Report Project Proji Text Report Trend Report Add Report Add Trend Report New Trend Report name N ReporGl Adjust Report Order cone Right click on the Report node in the Project windows and select Add Trend Report to add a new Trend Report A dialog appears to request for a report name Enter a name and press button to show Basic Setting dialog Finishing the basic setting
45. may be mapped to two or more consecutive words and I O data conversion may have different needs converted data to an integer or a floating number using binary or BCD coding for conversion determining high byte and low byte order etc To provide more flexibility on I O data processing Lab LINK 4 0 let users select Data Type to determine how the I O driver will convert I O value to tag data Use the drop down list to select the data type based on your application Selectable Data Types include Q Bit i A single bit data Its value is either O or 1 Q Word w A single word data Its value is converted to an 2 byte short integer 10 16 Chapter 10 IO Drivers using binary coding Range 0 65535 or 32767 32766 depending on the Sign parameter discussed later Q 2 Words d Two words of consecutive address starting with the specified I O address Convert its value into a 4 byte long integer using binary coding Range 0 4294967295 or 2147483648 2147483647 Q 3 Words t Three words of consecutive address starting with the specified I O address Convert its value into an integer using binary coding the integer is actually stored as a floating number due to its length Q 4 Words q Four words of consecutive address starting with the specified I O address Convert its value into an integer using binary coding the integer is actually stored as a floating number due to its length Q 2 Digits BCD p Convert a single word data in
46. needed 13 4 Chapter 13 Security Authentication This operation must be authenticated by the system Please enter your name and password Password authentication Display User Setting When Security Editor is executed a window as shown below appears To display the information of a user click on its name from the User Overview list The information of the selected user will appear in the fields on the left Note that only the data of users with privilege smaller than current login user can be seen The data of user with higher privilege will be hidden Security Editor DOK User s Information E ce Name 1 32 Char H Supervisor E Manager Es Password 1 32 Char Supervisor Privilege 1 255 255 Display user setting Edit User Data To modify a user s setting first select the user from the User Overview list to display its setting You can than edit its setting in the respective fields After finishing the editing press button to accept the change 13 5 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Security Editor SER i i User s Information EENI Name 1 32 Char T Supervisor Guest Password 1 32 Char supervisor Privilege 1 255 255 Edit user setting The modified user setting will take effect immediately for the current running project However if the user setting is not saved to file when exiting Security Editor the modified setting will not be saved When the La
47. of the alarm Tag including alarming acknowledgement and reset Therefore if the Halt Tag is set to 1 after the occurrence of an alarm the alarm will remain even when its alarm condition is cleared Only after the Halt Tag is set to 0 alarm processing of this alarm tag can then be restored and the system will determine whether the alarm should be reset or not Output Tag optional field This parameter specifies a tag name If the alarm occurs the value of Output Tag will be set to 1 When the alarm is acknowledged or reset its value will be set to 0 If this setting is omitted no alarm output action will be performed The tag name set in this field cannot be identical to the Tag name in Halt Tag field Setting of this parameter is effective only when Trigger Output is also set in alarm Action Alm Group mandatory field This parameter specifies the Alarm Group the alarm tag belongs to Alarm Group is a number between 0 65535 and will be used by Alarm WAV Player object to determine which wave file should be played Please refer to SmartPanel Users Manual for detail on the object Delay Time optional field This parameter specify the time in seconds an alarm Tag reach its alarm condition before the system recognize its alarm status and activate the subsequent alarm actions Delay Time is a number between 0 65535 If Reset Delay option of the alarm tag is also checked delay of the same time wil
48. on a Data Group and select Rename from its popup menu You can then rename the Data Group by editing its name directly Press lt Enter gt key on your keyboard to finish editing If the Data Group has been used by any Report as its data source the data source setting in the report will be modified to reference the new Data Group name 6 12 Chapter 6 Data Project Proji i Project Proji Modules Alarm a aici ae Aare Data POpernes atarap ly Savel ji Basie a O P IJO Add Data Group lO Driver DDE Connection OFC Connection Network Connection script o Delete Datatsroup 1 Rename Datasroup 1 Disable Rename a Data Group Disable Disable the Data Module Right click on the Data node and select Disable Data Module from its popup menu to disable all data storage function of the workstation No data in any Data Group will be stored for the workstation if the whole Data module is disabled Project Proj1 Project Proj1 Add Data Group Add Data Group Disable Data Module Enable Data Module Disable a Data Group Right click on a Data Group and select Disable Data Group from its popup menu to disable it Only the disabled Data Group will stop data storing during runtime and other Data Groups are not affected 6 13 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Project Proj1 Project Proj1 Data T EI QR Properties Savel Properties Save 1
49. report selected Press or t button to move the report downward or upward in the list When all the adjustment is made press button to close the dialog Adjust order Report t Refresh i Project Proji Report 1 2 Reportct Add Report x e ne sport Order 7 15 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Running the Report Module Running Report in SmartPAM Report can be run directly from SmartPAM by pressing button on the toolbar or selecting Run Report from the Run menu A dialog appears to allow you to select a workstation to run its report setting Select a workstation by clicking its name and press button the runtime Report module is run and the report setting of that workstation is loaded This method of running Report is usually used when the configuration is completed and the project is tested in the Lab LINK Developer environment i Lab LINK for Windows PAM Project Administration Manager Project View iv Run Toom Helpi J I0 Driver J ODE Connection J OPC Connection J Network Connection N vee Script Run Report Lab LINK Report Project Projl Workstation Wks Select a Workstation wks 7 16 Chapter 7 Report Running Report in Lab LINK Project An Executioner object can be defined to run project in a runtime Lab LINK Project The properties of the Executioner object should be similar to the followings Executer Properties x Basic Executer _Geneel Close
50. set to 1 it means the server will update the tag to the client at every scan If the property is set to N the server will only update the tag to the client workstation only after N scan This is setting is useful if the network will be rather busy and it is not necessary to update the tag too often Remark Enter a short text string to describe the tag 9 9 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Delete a Network Connection Project Proji J 10 Driver J DDE Connection J OPC Connection 3 Network Connection Neti Properties etl Basic SettngiNet1 Network Connection Delete Add Network Connection A Are You sure you want to delete the Network Connection Neti Delete Net1 RenametNet1 Disable Right click on a Network Connection and select from its popup menu to delete the connection A message box will appear to request for confirmation Press button to confirm the deletion or press button to cancel the operation Detecting Disconnection A Communication Tag is defined in Network Connection Basic Setting to detect the breakdown of the connection The tag is set to 1 when disconnection is detected Lab LINK Network module can automatically restore the network connection when the network recovers Recovery of Network Connection When a Network Connection breaks the client workstation will keep trying rebuilt the connection with the server until the connec
51. shown in Alarm Bar and Alarm Log objects in SmartPanel However Annunciator and Group Annunciator objects will still reflect the alarm status of this alarm Reset When Acked Acknowledging this alarm will also reset it Set NEW_ALM Set the value of system tag NEW_ALM to 1 if this alarm occurs Print Message Print messages including alarm acknowledge and reset messages immediately when alarm condition of this alarm changed A valid printer port must be selected in Alarm Basic Setting for the option to be effective Be sure to install appropriate printer driver also Log to History Log messages including alarm acknowledge and reset messages of this alarm to the Alarm History File If this option is not selected messages of this alarm won t be recorded in the history file History File checkbox must be selected in Alarm Basic Setting for this parameter to have effect Trigger Output Set the value of Output Tag to 1 when the alarm occurs This setting is effective only when an Output Tag name is also specified Play TTS Voice When the alarm occurs read the alarm message using TTS Text to Speech Operating system must support TTS of the language used in alarm messages for this setting to be effective Note TTS needs the support of Windows Speech API SAPI Windows XP support SAPI but Windows 2000 Besides Windows XP only support TTS in some 5 41 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual languages Press
52. tag to the report It will then appear in the Report Tags list The same tag can be added to the report more than once to be shown in different data curves This allows the report to display a tag using different aggregation methods To distinguish report tag referring to the same tag name it is recommended to enter remark text for each report tag To remove a tag from the report select the tag from the Report Tags list and press button Select a tag from the Report Tags list and its setting is shown on the right half of the dialog These setting are ReportG Setting Report Tags Disable Tag Name Tag Label symbol Oo 888 88 828282888 888 Noe SORDO H oe Remark Fen Color Green Blue 0 Color Delete D E Trend Report Setting Label Label is a short text that will be displayed in the legend filed in the report to provide description for each curve The length limit of Label is 10 characters Symbol If reports are printed by a monochrome printer user might not be able to distinguish data curves based on their color A symbol can be assigned to and printed on each data curve to solve this problem Clink to select the Symbol you wish to display on the data curve No symbol will be printed on the curve is None is selected 7 13 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Remark A short text string used for descriptive purpose Pen Color This property specifies the color of th
53. than 64 characters 2 Workstation name cannot contain space or special characters Previous ini Cancel Help L l New Project Wizard 1 Enter workstation name Press button after entering workstation name in New Workstation field and the name is shown in the box below Add all the workstation as needed and press button to close the wizard A root panel file with the same name as the workstation will be created in pnl subfolder under the project folder for each workstation W Project Projl _ ol i Project Projl KOX Modules Files Tag J Alarm J Data J Report J 16 Driver J DDE Connection J OPC Connection C Network Connection J Script 2 5 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Open Select Open from Project menu to open an existed project A dialog listing all existing project will be shown Click on the project you wish to open and press OK button to open it If the selected project is created by previous version of PAM a message box will be shown to indicate that the project cannot be opened directly Use Import to upgrade the project in order to open it Can not open the old project Cannot open the old version project Proja Please select Import Project from Project menu to upgrade the project to current version Password A project can be protected by a password If so a message will appear when you try to open the project Enter correct password and press OK to open it
54. to cancel the operation When the DDE server is activated a check mark appears in the popup menu item of Activate DE Server To disable DDE server right click on the DDE Connection node and select Activate DE Server from the popup menu again If the check mark disappears from the popup menu item of Activate DE Server the DDE server is shut down Project Projl Modules Alarm _ Data T Report J 10 Driver Basic H Actyvate DDE Server Disable DDE Server Ed Add DDE Connection DDE Seryer disabled DDE Server Application All data fields in a Lab LINK tag can be shared through DDE Field name must be specified in the item name in a DDE connection request Lab LINK tag data fields include a TagName Value Acquire the value field of the tag a TagName Date Acquire the date field of the tag a TagName Time Acquire the time field of the tag OQ TagName Message Acquire the message field of the tag If tag value is requested filed name can be omitted by specifying the tag name only An example to request Lab LINK data in excel is used to illustrate this application as follows Please follow the steps 1 Run Lab LINK project first Make sure its DDE server is activated and the project is 8 6 Chapter 8 DDE Connection regenerated after the activation 2 Run Excel and open a worksheet 3 Create DDE connection in Excel by entering a formula in cells LABLINK TAGINFO
55. to prevent unauthorized operation when a user leave the SCADA computer but forget to logout In workstation basic setting dialog select Advanced tab to show the automatic logout setting By checking on the Enable check box and entering a number in the Idle time field the automatic logout time limit is set If the SCADA computer has been idle that is without mouse or keyboard operation for the specified time the user will be logout automatically 13 2 Chapter 13 Security Workstation Wksl Basic Setting Identification Advanced Ante logout Enable Idle time sec Hote System will logout automatically if no keyboardimouse operation is detected during the idle time limit system Tag related to Security There are two system tags related to security management O USER Its value indicate the privilege and its message is the user name of the current login user O LOGOUT When its value is set to 1 the current user will be logout by the system User Setting User setting includes the following information O Name The name of user Its length limit is 32 characters J Password The password of the user Its length limit is 32 characters and is not case sensitive by default O Privilege The privilege of the user It is a number between 1 and 255 13 3 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual There are three default users when Lab LINK is installed Lab LINK allows project developer to have full con
56. to write to the corresponding data on the I O device failed Date The date when last value or message change is detected on the Tag The date format is Year Month Date Time The time when last value or message change is detected on the Tag Time format is Hour Minute Second Value The newest value of the Tag It is stored as a floating number with precision of about 15 or 16 digits Its range is Negative 1 797693134862316 E 308 4 94065E 324 Positive 4 94065E 324 1 797693134862316E 308 Message The newest text message store in the Tag It is stored as standard text string and its length limit is 80 characters A Chinese character is counted as two characters Chapter 4 Tag Tag Manager Dialog Usually the first step to configure a workstation is to define its Tag database Double click on the Tag node of the workstation will open the Tag Manger dialog Tags can be added edited renamed and deleted using this dialog Tag Manager Project Proji DEAR Ret Tag Name Tag Modules _ Files ar i Init Value Value lo Message as lO Driver Retain value ODE Connection JJ OPC Connection Remark J Network Connection Tagi T Script Acidi Delete D Rename B Help Tag Manager Left side of the dialog is the Tags list showing the names init value retain setting and remark of all user defined Tag Select a Tag by left click on its name and its detailed setting is sh
57. used by each of the workstation Project Info Proj1 1 0 Tags U VO Tag limit for each workstation Unlimited OK Cancel Help 2 11 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Exit Select Exit from Project menu to end the execution of PAM i Lab LINK for Windows PAM Project Administration Manager Seis miele View vY Run R Tool T Help H New N Ctrl N heed xiii amp 4 lose it Help Open O Ctrl o Report Tagview Security Save V Ctl S Save as A Ctrl A Close C Delete D Project Proji am Modules Import Project Info E Alarm Data 9 Report 4 0 10 Driver DDE Connection 9 OPC Connection 9 Network Connection E Script Projl Project Projl 2 12 Chapter 2 PAM View i Lab LINK for Windows PAM Project Administration Manager Project teem RUN R Tool T Help Project window haa Eni fiil a R Generate Report Tagview Security Help te Toolbar fern Project Proj 1 Files Wks Refresh I Tag 9 Alarm Data Report AQ 10 Driver DDE Connection E OPC Connection A Network Connection B Script Project Projl Project Window Select Project Window from View menu to show or hide the project window Toolbar Select Toolbar from View menu to show or hide the tool bar Refresh Select Toolbar from View menu t
58. with the specified address and convert its value into an integer using binary coding For the word with the higher address only the lower byte is use Q 3 Bytes Realfe Taking three bytes of data in the two consecutive words starting with the specified address and convert its value into a floating number using binary coding For the word with the higher address only the lower byte is use Q Swapped 2 Words lI Two words of consecutive address starting with the specified I O address Convert its value into a 4 byte long integer using binary coding Range 0 4294967295 or 2147483648 2147483647 but with lower and higher word swapped Q Swapped 3 Words u Three words of consecutive address starting with the specified I O address Convert its value into an integer using binary coding the integer is actually stored as a floating number due to its length but with the high low words swapped Q Swapped 4 Words x Four words of consecutive address starting with the specified I O address Convert its value into an integer using binary coding the integer is actually stored as a floating number due to its length but with the high low words swapped Q Swapped Float a Taking two words of consecutive addresses starting with the specified address and convert its data into a single precision floating number but with the high low words swapped Q Swapped Double g Taking four words of consecutive addresses starting with the specified address and c
59. 01216 Kg cm 2047 x0 002442 5 001216 10 Kg cm Reference Reference provides the possibility to combine data from multiple IO addresses and perform predefined linear calculation before sending the data to tag Note Reference only provide one way conversion In other words IO Drivers can read and convert raw data from IO device correctly according to Reference setting and send it to tags However it cannot write the changed tag data back to IO device correctly Reference is not available for IO drivers using data item setting To set Reference press button in IO setting dialog to show Source Reference dialog Reference Variables are used to represent data from different addresses Up to 10 Reference Variables can be added RO R1 R9 every variable is assigned to an IO address like a tag An example is used to illustrate the usage of Reference For Lab LINK 4 0 IO Drivers with IO Tags using I O address setting Tag names can also be used in Gain and Offset settings of Reference Variables Ex NewTag1 is an IO data that is stored in three register with addresses 100 gt 101 and 102 The equation to calculate its value is NewTag1 R 102 1 000 000 R 101 x1 000 R 100 Where R 100 represent the data in register address 100 Setting 10 27 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual MODEM Setting Source Reference LO Type O Address Gain Offset Mask Shift Remark 100 i QO OxFFFF 0 101 1000 EO OxFRFF i Tag Name Type A
60. 2 Chapter 10 IO Drivers Project Projl aa Froperties MODBM J OPC Connect EER RSE es le B J Network Con E Script Add IO Driver Delete MODEM Fename MODBM usable Open Basic Setting dialog of an I O Driver Basic Setting contains two pages Communication and Optional The former page defines the communication parameters used to connect to the I O device and the latter page defines some extra optional parameters related to communication Basic Setting Serial Interface I O Drivers with different interface may have different communication parameters For drivers using serial interface its basic setting dialog may appears like the figure below The parameters include MODEM Basic Setting Communication Driver Com For ESAE Baud Rate Parity Check Data Bit stop Bit Comm Tag Pretix MBUS PTT Use Alphanumeric char tor Comm Tag Prefix Device ok Cancel Help Basic Setting of I O Driver using serial interface Com Port Specify the communication port used by the I O driver Be sure to select the com port that will be actually used to connect with the I O device 10 3 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Baud Rate Specify the communication speed baud rate used by the driver The unit is bps This should be exactly the same speed the I O device uses Parity Check Specify the parity check method used Selections include N None O Odd EC Even M Mark or Spac
61. 8 bit 9 and bit10 are all set to O binary notation OO0O00xxx00000000 where xxx represent bit 8 bit 9 and bit10 After the mask operation shift operation is performed by the IO driver Since shift setting is 8 all bits will be moved rightward for 8 positions Those bits moved beyond bit O will be discarded After the shift operation the masked data become xxx in binary number notation Raw data bit 15 bit O Mask bit 15 bit O Mask data bit 15 bit O ojojo jojojx x x o jo o ojo ojo o Shifted data bit 15 bit O ojojojojo xjx x Shift 8 positions Due to its nature Mask should not be performed on bit data and should be set to the default OxFFFF for such cases Shift can be applied to bit data but with a different effect As shown in the figure below when Shift is set to 8 for a bit data it will move the bit leftward and insert O for the newly created bits The shifted data will then be converted according to Data Type setting Before Shift bit 15 bit O After shift bit 8 bit O FOO O O O x x x Gain and Offset Gain and offset are usually used in analog data conversion For example they can be used to convert the raw data to appropriate engineering unit In general gain and offset calculation applies a linear conversion to the raw data using the formula below 10 24 Chapter 10 IO Drivers Data in EU Raw Data Gaint Offset Raw data are the data read from the I O device by the IO Driver and th
62. Dat1_01 xdf 2006 1 1 Daily file Dat1_02 xdf 2006 1 2 Daily file Dat1_27 xdf 2006 1 27 Daily file Dat1_28 xdf 2006 1 28 Daily file Dat1_02 xmf 2006 1 Monthly file Dat1_04 xyf 2006 Yearly file Data Group Setting Right click on a Data Group and select Properties from its popup menu to open its dialog Left side of the dialog is Tags list showing all the tags in the workstation A second Data Tags list next to the Tags list shows the tags that are already added into this Data Group Select any of the tag in the Data Tags list its setting is shown on the right side of the dialog Note A tag can be added into more than once in one or more Data groups to save the same tag at different intervals using different aggregation methods For examples you may save the maximum and minimum value of a tag every minute but save its average every 5 minutes 6 8 Chapter 6 Data DataGroupl Setting Datl_ X DF Taz Name Tag4 Data group DataGroupl Gam Moo Offset oOo Cutout Tag Remark Pn Action E E v Save Output Add Data 3 Delete Di m Data Tag Setting To add a tag into the Data Group select its tag name from the Tags list and press button The tag will be added into Data Tags list and an index is assigned to it The index will be used by Data Trend object to locate data from Lab LINK data files Please refer to SmartPanel User s Manual for details To delete a data tag select it f
63. Disable the network server Add a new Network Connection Right click on the Network Connection node in the Project window and select Add a Network Connection from the popup menu A dialog appears to request for a name Enter a name and press to open Basic Setting dialog Finish the setting in the dialog and press button the new Network Connection is created and shown in the Project windows under the Network Connection node Project Projl Modules Wks E Wks t Tag J Alarm J Data a Report J 10 Driver J ODE Connection J OPC Connection ma Network Connection Add Network Connection Activate Network Server New Network Connection namely Add Network Connection oneni Add a new Network connection 9 4 Chapter 9 Network Connection Project Proji J 10 Driver J DDE Connection J OPC Connection 5 Network Connection Neti Basic Setting aap Neth a Properties Net j Server Workstation Wks Basic Setting Net1 IF or Computer Name Computer Name WKS1 Computer Mame MWE S 1 1stIiF 192 168 1 1 Add Network Connection Comm Tag Name end IP 192 168 2 1 Delete Net1 Remark Renamet Netli Cancel Help Disable Basic Setting of Network Conenction Basic Setting of Network Connection Right click on a Network Connection in the Project window and select Basic setting from the popup menu to open the dialog A dialog appears to reque
64. EU hin 0 0 Gain Max 1 1 Offset Calculate Gain and Offset Mask and Shitt system Tags Mask Shift Delete D Add O Tag g lt se lO Tag Setting To add a new I O tag select a tag name from the Tags list and press Add IO Tag button The selected tag will appear in the IO Tags list and its setting can then be edited on the right half of the dialog To delete an I O tag select it from the lO Tags list and press button I O tag settings include Tag Name Tag Name Tag l Display the name of the tag being edited Device Device DVC l __ _ _ _ l S _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ L a Select the I O device the tag belongs to Use the drop down list to select an I O device by clicking its name from the list Data Item Data Item Measured value PY M1 Specify the data item the IO Tag references Use the drop down list to select an item 10 22 Chapter 10 IO Drivers Gain Offset Mask and Shift Mask shift gain and offset operation will be performed in the stated order upon the raw data read from the I O device before doing data type conversion These parameters will be discussed in detail later Disable Disable Click on the check box to disable the I O tag When checked the I O tag won t be read and written by the I O driver at runtime Remark Renee a Enter a short text to describe the I O Tag Mask and Shift
65. Generation item lO Driver Driver Generation tem DDE Server O0EServer Generation item DDE Cieni DDE Client Generation tem Network Serwer TOPI FSerweri Generation item Network Connection T CPIPCent Generation tem OPC Connection 0FPCCent Generation item Script Contralscripty Generation complete please press lt 06 gt button rma maa dt maaa ed ed ed ed A message will appear after the generation to show the result Press OK to close the message Besides the runtime configuration files generation will also create the shortcut for each workstation under the project folder The shortcut will be named as WorkstationName_Panel ex Wks1_ Panel and can used to execute the Lab LINK runtime system for that workstation Run Project After the configuration and generation of a project it is ready for execution Select Run Project from Run menu will execute Lab LINK runtime system and load the current Project setting A dialog will appear for you to select which workstation should be run Select a workstation and press button to start the runtime system of the selected workstation 2 15 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Run Project Lab LINK for Windows Project Projl Workstation wks Select a Workstation Lab LINK for Window s is running Project Proj Workstation Wks 1 mes e Stop project Stop the execution of a running project Tool Tool menu provide the execution of Lab LINK dev
66. Ig Basic Basic j DO Joa Add Data Group Add Data Group Be 3g Delete Savel Delete Save 1 Rename Save 1 Rename Save 1 Disable Enable 6 14 Chapter 7 Report Introduction Report module provides report function for Lab LINK It read data files generated by Data module and present the data as text or trend reports to users Lab LINK project developer can configure reports easily in SmartPAM by specifying report type data source and other setting User can then use the reports to display and print out historical data at runtime Unlike other modules Report doesn t receive real time data from Tag Manager Instead it reads historical data from Lab LINK data files generated by Data module and creates text or trend report to display these data to users Features O Can define up to 64 text or trend reports QO User can specify report type and data time range at run time Q 6Table column content or trend curve can be easily configured QO Historical data can be aggregated using different time intervals before generating the reports O Users can preview or pint the reports a Daily monthly or yearly statistics can be shown for Daily Monthly or Yearly Reports respectively 7 1 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Report Types In term of time range displayed by reports there are three types or reports a Daily Report Q Monthly Report QO Yearly Report Reports can also be classified into t
67. Lab LIN K for Windows Part 1 Lab LINK for Windows User s Manual Top Team Technology Inc Table of Contents Chapter 1 Intstalltion System Requirement Installation Software protection Chapter 2 PAM Start PAM Project Configuration Procedure Menu Project GNC T AC ia tax iosinsi cies darssinniwien teva aaueeieiAdaaibaeieelmiad eatacdanimieuaasimeasenlts FIUN Cr ONC Clinientsacuscedancaacennasstene a a a N LOD PHO SCs sei ceases decenedui a a a Tool Help Toolbar Module Page in Project Window 1 1 1 1 1 3 2 1 2 2 CEOS O a Ya E PT EE E e e a a a a PANAMA etal alee Dea ase dV acest T aed Uda 2 19 Dala airs ea crass hc aoa a el ls Ch eas iets oi 2 20 FU POO EN ae acer Ue id aed nae el aware a a cat net daeliatceu ieee 2 20 DDE COMMS CHON airnet i eintor lus nso crest adineimieaday asitet moose aae ered eet 2 20 NGIWOMK COMMEGCHONN sacycuscctid act dietaket ot eichase asetet naan a lees 2 21 IO DIVE ea oc Mainesca tal bac Wi A ee Muknonentullat os iad 2 21 ORG COSC tO ia cic ek leas ae a ed esa a el ote ae a 2 21 E O ee ee EE AA EA aR ORE oR ENEE ee Ne eee E Nee tee 2 21 Project Files and Folders 2 21 File Page in Project Window 2 22 FIE OS AON ioe le rad a ad a 2 22 Management of Other FileS vesniecnni a a 2 25 Sy al er ee re eee eee a ee eee eee 2 25 Chapter 3 Workstation Workstation 3 1 Basic Setting of Workstation 3 2 CSF AU OUI E A ice Sea E E E E A nana A 3 2
68. Lab LINK IO drivers are capable of detecting the communication breakdown between the PC and the IO devices There are two level of communication problem communication breakdown of the IO device or a single IO point The former is indicated by the value of its Communication Tag and the latter is shown by State field of the IO tag Communication Breakdown of an IO Device 10 30 Chapter 10 IO Drivers As seen in IO device setting described in the previous sections a Communication Tag is assigned to each IO device in an IO driver to indicate its communication status When the communication between the driver and the IO device breakdown the value of the Communication Tag will be set to 1 When the communication resume its value will be set to 1 Please note that IO Driver will not set Communication Tag to 1 immediately when a single communication command it sends fails Since it is possible that communication may have to tolerate some kind of interference so communication commands may fail from time to time while the communication can still be maintained at an acceptable level Therefore IO Driver will set Communication Tag to 1 only after a preset number of consecutive communication command failures This is determined by some optional communication parameter discussed in previous sections Any successful communication command will reset the Communication Tag to 0 Communication Breakdown of an IO Tag As discussed in Tag Chapter of this m
69. Lab LINK does a mapping between Windows user group and Lab LINK user privilege must be defined to apply Windows authentication in Lab LINK A series of Windows user groups named LABLINK1 LABLINK2 LABLINK255 can be defined The users in these groups will be assigned as having corresponding privileges of 1 to 255 in Lab LINK In a practical application not all 255 privileges are used Only groups corresponding to those privileges used need to be defined For example if privilege 1 2 and 3 are used only three groups namely LABLINK1 LABLINK2 and LABLINKS need to be defined Every user should be added into one of these groups according to the privileges they have The following paragraphs will explain how to create groups and how to add users into the groups in Windows Open Control Panel of Windows system and select Administrative Tools Select Computer Management from the Administrative Tools folder and a window as shown below appears 13 12 Chapter 13 Security Computer Management EBR m Fie Action View Window Help e gt mM EBR 2 computer Management Loc System Tools System Tools ga Event Viewer Sj Storage Shared Folders Services and Applications 4G Local Users and Group 9 Users 9 Groups amp Performance Logs and g Removable Storage Disk Defragmenter S Disk Management S Services and Applications Click Local Users and Groups to expand the node Right click on Groups and selec
70. Lab LINK for Windows Project PAM 2 1 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Project Configuration Procedure Configuration of a Lab LINK project can be summarized as shown in the flow chart 1 New Project Wizard 2 Auto creation of project and its folder Tag Setting Alarm Setting Data Setting Report Setting 1O Driver Setting Panel DDE Setting OPC Setting s Network Setting Tools SmartScript Editor SmartScript programming CONOORWN Generate Test Select New from Project menu in PAM to open a new project New Project Wizard will guide you through the creation of the structure of a new project Tools in PAM can then be used to configure detail setting of the project 1 PAM Project Administration Manager QO Used to configure Workstation Tag database Alarm Data Report DDE Network I O Driver OPC and Script OQ Please read related chapters in this manual for details 2 PanelEdit Panel Editor QO Used to configure panels the user interface screens Please read SmartPanel User Manual for details 2 2 Chapter 2 PAM 3 Security Editor O Used to define users Please read Security chapter for details 4 SmartScript Editor O Used to edit SmartScript Please read SmartScript Reference Manual for details 5 Generate and run the project Q A project must be generated to create the runtime configuration files used by Lab LI
71. NK runtime system to run the project Q Modification on any module requires regeneration of the project for the change to take effect in Lab LINK runtime system Panel file or graphic file modification doesn t need regeneration of project Run project to test it TagView can be used to monitor the value of each Tag Please read chapter 14 for the use of TagView Menu PAM has these Menus Project View Run Tool and Help to provide corresponding functions Project Menu i Lab LINK for Windows PAM Project A Amaga View Runt Tooli Helpt Mewt Ctrl n a iy Open Ctl a Save ly Cirl s Save astal Cri A Delete D Importi Project Info Ti Projl Proj4 Proj lo Proje Exit gt New Create a new project gt Open Open an existed project 2 3 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Save Save a modified project Save as Save the modified project to a new project with different name Close Close the current opened project Delete Delete one or more projects Vv Vv V VY WV Import Import an existed project and save it as a different name Usually to upgrade a project with previous version of PAM v Project Info To show and edit project related information gt Latest project The names of the last four projects that have been open lately is shown An easy way to select and open these projects gt Exit End the execution of PAM New
72. Name vom P E seRROR HSER Status tALARM Input Output Unknown Uncertain _ Fault Offline OnLine ALM_FRI IDLE BLINK TIME RUN SEIT LOGOUT OISK Fix Button Date time y Auto Data Tage Taq fal Tacs 14 6 Chapter 14 TagView Thel button on the left top corner of the Tag View window is the Fix button When it is pressed the Tag View window is fixed on the top of other windows This is the default setting when Tag View is started When using Tag View to test a Lab LINK project it is convenient to let Tag View window stays on top of Lab LINK window since you may need to switch between these two windows from time to time Without this setting you may often need to use Windows Hot Key such as lt Alt Tab gt to switch between windows To cancel this function Press thel again and its shape will change to The Tag View window will be covered by other window if another window is selected Press the button again to resume the fix on top setting of Tag View window Exit Tag View Click on the Bi icon on the left top corner of Tag View and select Exit to close Tag View You can also press the button on the top right corner of Tag View window to exit Tag View directly TagView 4 TAG Name Move 1 ERROR USER ee 4LARM Minimize Output 4LM_PRI F Fault SIDLE oa ELINE TIME SPUN Aut a E EXIT LOGOUT DISK Data Tagi 1 B Taq Value Toss Tag
73. O TagName TagFieldName The item name of a Lab LINK tag TagName Is the name of the tag whose data is to be received TagFieldName is the name of a Lab LINK data field Applicable data field name will be discussed later Note Since Lab LINK tag name is case sensitive take care when specifying item names Application name topic name and tag data field name are not case sensitive Add a DDE Connection gt Project Projl Modules T Alarm J Data a Report J 10 Driver U Basic i Activate DDE Serwer Add DDE Connection Add DDE Connection New DDE Connection name hi DDE men Right click on the DDE Connection node and select Add DDE Connection from the popup menu A dialog appears to request for a connection name Enter a name and press OK button to edit connection setting Finish the setting to create a new DDE Connection Up to 32 DDE Connections can be created In other word it is possible for Lab LINK to receive data from 32 applications Basic Setting of a DDE Connection Right click on a DDE Connection in the Project window and select Basic Setting from the popup menu to show the dialog below Left of the dialog is Existing DDE Connections list showing all the DDE connections that are already defined Select a DDE Connection from the list and its 8 2 Chapter 8 DDE Connection setting is shown on the right half of the dialog Meanings of the settings are DDE Client Basic Current DDE Conn
74. O tags Unlimited Project Version omantPam Developer _Parn version 14 0 1231 Program Version System Info Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Toolbar Toolbar contains the most often used menu items T New Create a new project ae Open Open an existed project Save Save the opened project oes Close Close the opened project Tag nee TagAdmin Open Tag Administration Dialog for tag management Generate Generate the opened project Run Project Run the selected workstation of the opened project Stop Project Stop the running project Report Run the report setting of the selected workstation of the opened project goa TagView Run TagView ee Security Run Security Editor Helop Open Lab LINK Help online document Module Page in Project Window Project Proji Seles Modules __Files _ Alarm Data _ Report J 10 Driver J DDE Connection J OPC Connection J Network Connection T Script Module page of project window display module structure of each workstation in a tree view Workstations are top level node with Tag database and modules as their child node Press button before each node to expand it and press H button will collapse it Workstation 2 18 Chapter 2 PAM Basic setting of the workstation includes Identification Security and Execution See Workstation chapter for details TAG Database Used for management of the Tag database Tags can b
75. PC Server will update the data items in the group at the rate specified E Dead band Specify the dead band size Its unit is which represents the percentage of change with respect to the full range of data When the change of data is smaller than the specified dead band OPC server will not send data to OPC client even the time specified in Update Rate is reached Range of data is determined by OPC server This setting is ignored if Dead band is set to 0 and thus data will always be sent to OPC client at specified Update Rate E Remark A short text string to describe the OPC Group When the setting of OPC Group is finished press button to return to OPC Connection window If button is pressed all setting change will be discarded Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Add OPC Item OPC Connection OPC1 ORC Serer OPC Group OPC Server Serwer name Test TestServer Wi location l Group name Group P Test Test5Semer W1 lt Local gt Lab LINK Tag OPC tem Add OPC Server Add OPC Group Add OPC Item Delete OPC Group crouct OPC Group Graupd Properties Add an OPC Item OPC Items can be added after OPC Group is created Right click on the OPC Group in the OPC Connection window and select Add OPC Item from the popup menu Add OPC Item dialog will appear to allow the adding of new OPC Items Add OPC Item Browse OPC Server m Lab LINK Tag Generation Channel_0_User_Defined Automatic use OPC
76. Server Users can define Update rate and Dead band for each OPC Group A Communication Tag is assigned to each OPC Group to detect its communication status Can browse OPC Server for established OPC Item Provide OPC Item identification validation function subject to OPC Server support Can request for data type conversion of OPC Items Subject to OPC Server support Can create Lab LINK tag automatically for each OPC Item selected Support connections with multiple OPC servers Lab LINK for Windows User Manual OPC Architecture OPC ServerA OPC Server B Node Aa Data Item Al Node Ba i Item Bl Node ynens Ad Data Item A2 Data Item B2 Node Ac Data Item A3 OPC Server OPC Client ee l OPC connection Module OPC connection 1 OPC Connection 2 OPC Server A OPC Server B OPC Group 1 1 OPC Group 2 1 OPC Data Item Al Tagl1 OPC Data Item B2 Tag5 OPC Data Item A2 Tag2 OPC Group 1 2 OPC Data Item A3 Tag3 OPC Server B OPC Group 1 3 OPC Data Item Bl Tag4 Lab LINK for Windows OPC Architecture Roles of application and IO driver under OPC architecture are OPC Server The IO driver that provide IO data It is responsible for communication with 1O device and provides access of real time data to applications 1 OPC Client Lab LINK OPC Connection module It can created connection between Lab LINK and OPC server to let Lab LINK access real time data on the IO device through OPC Server Chap
77. Tag name in Output Tag field When the value of the Halt Tag is set to 1 system will suspend all alarm functions of the alarm Tag including alarming acknowledgement and reset Therefore if the Halt Tag is set to 1 after the occurrence of an alarm the alarm will remain even when its alarm condition is cleared Only after the Halt Tag is set to 0 alarm processing of this alarm tag can then be restored and the system will determine whether the alarm should be reset or not Output Tag optional field This parameter specifies a tag name If the alarm occurs the value of Output Tag will be set to 1 When the alarm is acknowledged or reset its value will be set to 0 If this setting is omitted no alarm output action will be performed The tag name set in this field cannot be identical to the Tag name in Halt Tag field Setting of this parameter is effective only when Trigger Output is also set in alarm Action Alm Group mandatory field This parameter specifies the Alarm Group the alarm tag belongs to Alarm Group is a 9 45 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual number between 0 65535 and will be used by Alarm WAV Player object to determine which wave file should be played Please refer to SmartPanel Users Manual for detail on the object Delay Time optional field This parameter specify the time in seconds an alarm Tag reach its alarm condition before the system recognize its alarm status and
78. TestSerer W OPC Server Location Tee e Installed OPC servers found Press the Search for installed OPC Server button and the system will try to search for installed OPC servers on the specified location All the installed OPC servers found by the system will be listed on the dialog shown above Select the OPC Server to be connected by clicking it Press button to close the dialog Add OPC Group OPC Connection OPC1 OPC Serer OPC Group OPC server 5ever name Test TestSerer 1 HiTest TestSerer v1 Local Lab LINK Tag OFC item Add OPC Server Add OFE Grol Delete OPS Serwer Test TestServer v l Add an OPC Group Right click on the OPC Server name and select Add OPC Group from the popup menu to add a new OPC Group A dialog will appear to provide the following settings for the group Chapter 11 OPC Connection Add OPC Group OPC Group Name Group0 Comm Tag Name OFC1GO Update Rate ms pgp Deadband 100 0 OK Cancel Help OPC Group Setting OPC Group Name Specify a name for the OPC Group Comm Tag Name Specify the Communication Tag name of the OPC Group The tag is used to indicate the communication status of the data items in the group Similar to the Communication Tag in IO Drivers the value of the tag will be set to 1 if any communication occurs m Update Rate Specify how frequent the data items in the group should be updated Its unit is ms O
79. Ti Setting Report Tags Disable Tag Mame Taq Label 1 Label 2 Aggregation Average AVG 7 Viclth E Fraction Digit 2 Remark Statistics Min Sum Max Awg Delete D Add Report Tag e TAG Name When a tag is selected from the Report Tags list its name will be displayed indicating the settings below belongs to this tag Label 1 Label 2 You can specify two label texts for each column in the report Labels will be shown on top of each column The length limit of each label text is 80 characters Note The width of each column is determined by the property Width It is possible that the label cannot be displayed completely due to a small width setting 1 1 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual 7 8 Aggregation In Interval setting if a Data Records larger than one is set Report Interval is greater than the Data Interval an aggregation method is needed to combine multiple data records into one report record For example if data are stored at 1 minute interval but report shows data at 30 minutes interval Report module will combine the 30 data records into a data in the report using the method specified by this property There are six aggregation methods can be selected from NEW The newest data in the report interval OLD The oldest data in the report interval MIN The minimum data in the report interval MAX The maximum data in the report
80. V store the three types of sample files BMP and WMF folders contain subfolders for several categories of graphic files Script File Please note that adding a Script File in File page is not the same as adding a Script module in Module Page The file added in File page won t run automatically when the project is run Only a Script File referenced by a Script module in Module page will be loaded when the project is run Please read Script chapter for details Please refer to Script chapter for details 2 25 In a Lab LINK project the tasks of a computer running Lab LINK are defined in a workstation This chapter will discuss the basic setting of a workstation Detail description of the setting of each module in a workstation will be discussed in the chapters follows Workstation Workstation contains all the setting used by a computer running Lab LINK Complete workstation setting may include the followings Workstation Basic Setting Tag Database Alarm Data Report I O Driver DDEConenction OPC Connection Network Connection Script Number of workstations needed for a project depends on the tasks performed by each computer In general single machine project that involves only one computer needs one workstation only and a network project involving multiple computers may need to setup several workstation However because only one workstation is needed for several computers performing exactly the same tasks the number of wor
81. When raw data are acquired from the IO device Mask and Shift operation will first be operated upon them Mask and shift are usually applied to word data A word usually consists of 16 bits Mask is used to remove unused bits and shift is used to move the selected bit to appropriate position Mask and Shift Mask shift Mask and shift setting Press button to show mask setting dialog To set the Mask select the bits you want to preserve by checking on the check box below the bits while uncheck on those you want to remove All unchecked bits will be set to O after the mask operation Shift is set by entering a number in the shift field or using the spin button next to it to adjust its value This number will shift the bits rightward in the word Mask Setting Mask Bits Bit 15141312 i 8 or e a ee i gaga nuaa oniu onun Clear All Select All omei ree Mask setting If no Mast and Shift operation is required please leave the field to its default value of OxFFFFand 0 The example below is used to illustrate the application of Mask and Shift operation 10 23 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Ex Acquire bit 8 bit 10 in a word data and convert it into an integer with range of 0 to 7 Mask Setting 0x0700 Shift Setting 8 Description Mask operation is applied first As shown in the figure below by setting Mask to 0x0700 that is 0000011100000000 using binary number notation all other bits except bit
82. Wks2 report cat Command Parameters Share Lab link Not required folder 1 23 Introduction Dynamic Data Exchange DDE is a standard interface between Windows application to exchange real time data Lab LINK provides DDE function to share real time Tag data with any Windows application that supports DDE For example real time data collected by Lab LINK can be sent to Excel for further analysis Lao LINK provides full DDE support It can be either a DDE server or a DDE client or both at the same time Features E Exchange data with any Windows application supporting DDE a Can be both a DDE client and a DDE server Q Alldata field in a Tag can be exchanged using DDE E No configuration is needed except enable the function when Lab LINK is DDE server DDE Connection Format The following information must be specified to build a DDE Connection ApplicationName TopicName ltemName J ApplicationName Name of the DDE server application J TopicName Name of the topic on DDE server O ItemName Name of the data item on DDE server These names are defined by the DDE server and should be specified by the DDE client when it tries to build the connection If Lab LINK is the DDE server a DDE client can request Lab LINK tag data in the following format 8 1 LABLINK TAGINFO TagName TagFieldName O LABLINK The application name of Lab LINK as a DDE server O TAGINFO The topic name of Lab LINK tag data
83. a Tag and press Add Alarm button to add it as a digital alarm Tag The Tag will appear in the Alarm Tags list 5 15 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Alarm Setting Name mandatory field This parameter defines the name of the alarm Tag when it appears in the alarm message The limit on the length is 80 characters A string enclosed in a pair of square brackets can appear in the beginning of Name and a T character can be used in the category string to separate main category and sub category The strings will be used by the add on LogView alarm report module as categories for queries For example the message for an alarm Tags with Name Area A Reactor Temperature and alarm message too high may display its alarm message as 2006 01 01 12 00 00 Area A Reactor Temperature too high LogView will have two levels of categories for queries User can search for alarm records with major categories of Area A and minor category of Reactor Priority mandatory field When more than one alarm occurs at the same time Priority is used to determine which alarm will be handled first Priority should be between 1 255 with the higher value representing higher priority A system tag ALM_PRI is used to show the highest Priority value in all active unacknowledged alarms Deadband optional field This parameter specifies a dead band range Dead band is designed to avoid the annoyance of frequent alarm a
84. ab LINK tag Note that it is possible to add the same OPC Item to different OPC Group However only one item can be mapped any Lab LINK tag Setting details will be discussed in later After the setting of OPC Connections press button at the bottom of the window to close it To modify the OPC Connection module right click on its name in the Project window and select Properties from its popup menu Add OPC Server OPC Connection OPC OPC Server OFC Group Lab LINK T OPC Item Add GPC Server Add an OPC Server When the OPC Connection window is opened right click on the left part and select Add OPC Server from the popup menu Add OPC Server dialog will appear Chapter 11 OPC Connection Add OPC Server OPC Server Po Search for installed OPC Server Location Development Stage Note Local server l Mode name can be specify using Remote server node name required a UNC Name Ex ABCReryer t DNS Name Ex www ABCVender com pode ame Ex 211 21 100 170 2 Node name should be specified based on the Tuntime computer instead of the developer Runtime Stage computer e Local Server Remote server node name required Mode Name Femark OE Cancel Help Add OPC Server dialog You can either enter the name of the server in the OPC Server field directly or try to find a server by pressing the Search for installed OPC Server button Location selection is used to specify where th
85. above recommended RAM 128MB 256 MB or above recommended Hard Disk 200MB or more available hard disk space CD ROM SVGA Display card and Color Monitor Mouse and Keyboard Operating System Windows 2000 XP Ha A bas tie ne toe 2 cee ee E TOP TEAM TECHNOLOGY INC i E mo i Xx E mail service topteam com tw Install Lab LINK 4 0 Install Lab LINK 4 0 Add on Modules 1 Install DBSaver 2 Install DBReport 3 Install SmartRecipe 4 Install Notifier 1 1 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Please insert Lab LINK for Windows CD ROM into CD ROM drive The installation screen should appear Install Lab LINK 4 0 Install the main system of Lab LINK for Windows Scada Package Install Lab LINK 4 0 Add on Modules Install additional add on modules gt Install DBSaver Install DBSaver Database Tool to provide commercial database data saving capability gt Install DBReport Install DBReport a database report tool gt Install SmartRecipe Install SmartRecipe a recipe access tool gt Install Notifier Install Notifier a tool to send voice message through telephone Select Install Lab LINK for Windows 4 0 to install the main package Follow the instructions to finish the installation When the installation is completed a Lab LINK for Windows 4 folder will be created in the All Program List in Start Menu The following shortcut will also be added into the folder SmartPAM The integrated
86. acters A string enclosed in a pair of square brackets can appear in the beginning of Name and a Ae character can be used in the category string to separate main category and sub category The strings will be used by the add on LogView alarm report module as categories for queries For example the message for an alarm Tags with Name Electrical System Area A Power panel VCB 1 and alarm message Trip may display its alarm message as 2006 01 01 12 00 00 Electrical System Area A Power panel VCB 1 Trip LogView will have two levels of categories for queries User can search for alarm records with major categories of Electrical System and minor category of Area A Type mandatory field This parameter specifies sub type of digital alarm XO Alarm occurs if the value of the alarm tag is the same as the Reference Tag when alarm tag value changes X1 Alarm occurs if the value of the alarm tag is different from the Reference Tag when alarm tag value changes XC Alarm occurs if the value of the alarm tag changes but there is no change 5 50 Chapter 5 Alarm on the value of the Reference Tag Priority mandatory field When more than one alarm occurs at the same time Priority is used to determine which alarm will be handled first Priority should be between 1 255 with the higher value representing higher priority A system tag ALM_PRI is used to show the highest Priority value in
87. alog There are three pages in the dialog Basic Password and I O Tag Basic Click on Basic Tab to show the basic information of the project 2 9 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Location Created Modified Generated Upgraded Autoho Remark Password Location of the project folder in the file system The date and time when the project was created The date and time when the project was last modified The date and time when the project is last generated The date and time when the project is upgraded Name of the user who create the project Description of the project Project Info Proji Basic Password iO Tag Position J hLLablink4 Project Frol Created 7 3 2006 3 04 48 PM Modified 7 26 2006 10 18 04 AM Generated 7 25 2006 5 49 43 PM Upgraded Version 40 Author Remark Cancel Help Password page is used to set the password used to protect the project from unauthorized modification If a password is set it will be needed when the project is opened Any text string can be used as a password and there is no limit on the number of characters ina password The password must be entered twice to confirm its correctness Press Clear button to clear the password setting 2 10 Chapter 2 PAM Project Info Proj1 Basic Password 1 0 Tag Password Clear Confirm Password oo Cancel Help I O Tag This page display the number
88. amefReportT 1 Disable Right Click on a Text Report and select Basic Setting from its popup menu to show its Basic Setting dialog Basic setting includes 7 3 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Reportl1 Basic Setting source Data Group Wks DataGroupt Date Path Default Data Path n Froject Frol dat 0 User defined Path SE Mote Please ensure the path specified is valid and has proper authorization setting tor Lab LINk to access the data files during runtime Report Title 1 Report Title Interval Report Interval Data Interval Data Records 2 ee sto S Records Format Report Type Font Size 12 Daily O ROC Era Landscape Honiy Common Era te Portrait early Cancel Help Basic Setting of a Text Report Source Data Group Select a Data Group from any workstation in the project to be used as the data source of the Report Only Data Groups whose File Type settings are Lab LINK Data Files XDF are shown in the drop down list In other words only Lab LINK proprietary XDF format data files can be used to generate reports In a networked SCADA application it is possible to have a workstation generating its reports using data files generated by another workstation As can be seen in Source Data Group drop down list data groups of all the workstations are shown and denoted in the form Workstation DataGroup to indicate which workstation does the Data Gr
89. anges from abnormal back to normal Acknowledging may or may not be conducted during the alarm process This may due to the alarm reset before any operator has the opportunity to acknowledge it or acknowledgement is never expected Besides it is also possible that an alarm is considered reset as soon as it is acknowledged In this case it won t have the reset stage Alarm Logging Alarm provide alarm message logging function to record alarm history There are two alarm logging system in Lab LINK Alarm Database and Alarm History File Alarm Database Alarm Databases are real time databases storing alarm messages in system memory 9 2 Chapter 5 Alarm during Lab LINK runtime The databases can be saved to files when Lab LINK ends and the files can be loaded back to memory when Lab LINK starts You can choose to store Active Alarm alarms that are not reset and Alarm History records of past alarms that are reset in two separate databases Dual Log or in the same single database Single Log Due to the nature of memory storage the number of alarm records the databases can hold is limited in either case A maximum of 1024 records can be stored in either Active Alarm Database or Alarm History Database Old record will be flushed out on a first in first out base Records in both databases can be shown using an Alarm Log object in SmartPanel Alarm History File Alarm History File is a text file recording the alarm acknowledge an
90. anual every tag has a State field to indicate its stats For lO Tag its State represent sits communication status There are two kinds of states Input States For those IO Tags with Access setting allowing reading of its value from the IO device lO Driver will keep scanning the device for their real time values If a reading command related to an lO tag fail its State will be set to Offline The next time the IO tag is successfully read its Input State will be set to Online Output State For those IO Tags with Access setting allowing writing of its value to the IO device IO Driver will write value to the device when the tag data change in Lab LINK When the writing command fails IO Driver will retry again If it still fails to write data to the device after three consecutive trials it will set the Output State of the tag to Output Failed The State will be clear when any latter writing succeeds Suspend Communication Communication with an IO device can be suspended by setting its Communication Tag to 1 or 2 IO Driver will stop scanning the device for data when its communication is suspended To resume communication set the value of the Communication Tag back to 0 The difference between setting the Communication Tag to 1 and 2 are described as follows Tag Value Action when IO Tag values remain Based on the optional communication communication unchanged parameter lt ClearValue gt to determine suspended whether reset all IO
91. arameter will disable the I O tag that is I O driver will neither scan for its value nor write data to it Remark Remark A short text string to describe the I O tag I O Tag Setting Using I O Address Lab LINK 4 0 Lab LINK 4 0 provides a new I O tag configure method More parameters are added to enhance the flexibility of I O drivers As shown in the figure below Left of the dialog are the same Tags and IO Tags list but the right half has more field for each I O tag to set 10 14 Chapter 10 IO Drivers MODEM Setting Modbus Master Device F5485 Add LO Tags Disable Tag Name Tagl Device DVCL ae O Type Coil CO i s lt s O Address jo 0 Data Type Bi G Sign Unsigned U o i Remak Conversion Cata in EU Raw Data Gaint Offset i Calculate Gain and Offset Faw Data Cata in EU Crain l k Offset 0 7 Mask and Shift Mask OxFFFF Ta shift 0 Delete Di System Tags Add O Tag Zg i us Help lO Tag Setting Select a tag name from the Tags list and press Add IO Tag button to add a new IO tag The selected tag will appear in the IO Tags list and its setting can be edited in the filed on the right To delete an I O tag select it from the IO Tags list and press button IO Tag parameters are discussed as follows Tag Name Tag Name Tagl Display the name of the tag being edited Device Device D C1 Select the I O device the tag belongs to
92. arantee they match the path description defined in the project and thus can be found when needed Copy the workstation runtime shortcut from the project folder to the desktop of the site computer This shortcut is automatically created in the project folder when the project is generated in PAM The name of the shortcut is WorkstationName Panel Ex lablink project proj1 Wks1_ Panel Run the runtime shortcut of the workstation to start the project on the site computer The projects setting will be loaded and all the configured function will start 15 1 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Network Project Server Workstation 1 Install proper version of Lab LINK for Windows on the site computer 2 Install the keypro on the parallel port or USB port of the site computer 3 Copy the entire project folder to project folder on the site computer For example if a project named Proj1 is to be deployed the entire folder at path lablink project proj1 on the develop computer needs to be copied into the lablink project folder at the site computer If there are any other files or subfolders not located beneath the project folder used be sure to copy these files or subfolders to exactly the same location on the site computer to guarantee they match the path description defined in the project and thus can be found when needed 4 Copy the workstation runtime shortcut from the project folder to the desktop of the site computer This shor
93. arm When the state of a digital alarm tag changed it is compared to the value of a referenced Tag If the referenced Tag does not change in the preset manner an 2 19 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual alarm occurs Event used for digital Tags Any change on the state of the Tag is recorded as an event Please see Alarm chapter for alarm details Data This module is used to define how Tag data are stored It can store Tag data into files with specified time interval Two data file formats are supported by this module gt Lab LINK Data files XDF This is a Lab LINK proprietary binary format used by SmartPanel object and Lab LINK Report Select this file type if data will be presented by Lab LINK gt Text files TXT Data will be stored as text files Select this file type if data will be used by other application such as spreadsheet or database Please see Data chapter for details Report Report module use data files stored by Data module to create reports Lab LINK reports provide three time span gt Daily Report gt Monthly Report gt Yearly Report There are also two different report format gt Text Report gt Trend Report Please see Report chapter for details DDE Connection DDE Connection can be used to share data with other applications Please see DDE Connection chapter for details 2 20 Chapter 2 PAM Network Connection Network Connection is used to share Tag data amo
94. as less characters then the number needed 5 or 6 depending on the driver used system will make up the length with X behind After the communication setting press button to configure parameters for each device in this diver See next section When the settings are done press button to close the Basic Setting dialog and return to the Project window Basic Setting Optional Optional page in Basic Setting dialog is used to define some extra communication setting of the I O driver Parameters may vary for different I O drivers Usually there is no need to set these optional parameters since proper default values have already assigned However they can still be modified under special circumstances such as increasing the tolerance of communication interference by extending the timeout and retry settings of the driver Optional communication parameters consist of a serial of parameters separating by comma Some common parameters used by most I O drivers are lt Time out gt lt Station Delay gt lt Command Delay gt lt Error Count gt lt Retries gt lt ClearValue gt MODBM Basic Setting Communication Driver Driver ModBustaster Version 4 0 Interface R5485 Remark Modbus Master Device Option setting See Manual 1000 30 30 5 3 Device ox Cancel Help Q lt Time out gt The maximum time the driver should wait before response is received after a communication command is sent If no response is re
95. b LINK project is exited and run again since the original user setting file will loaded all modification will be lost To prevent this problem be sure to save the user setting before exiting Security Editor Add User To add a new user press Append button in the Security Editor A new user will appear in the Users list Enter proper setting for the user and press Write button to add the new user Security Editor User s Information EENE Name 1 32 Char Supervisor ETE EEE Manager Guest i ton gate ee Password 1 32 Char Privilege 1 255 Add a new user The newly added user setting will take effect immediately for the current running project However if the user setting is not saved to file when exiting Security Editor the modified setting will not be saved When the Lab LINK project is exited and run again since the original user setting file will loaded the new user won t exist To prevent this problem be sure to save the user setting before exiting Security Editor 13 6 Chapter 13 Security Delete User If a user is no longer using Lab LINK its setting can be deleted Select the user from the Users list in the Security Editor and press Delete button to delete the user Security Editor User s Information Meera enna Name 1 32 Char n anager Guest Test Password 1 32 Char T1234 Privilege 1 255 0 Delete Delete a user The deleted user setting will take
96. ccur and reset frequently Besides a constant value a Tag name can also be set in this parameter Either a constant value or a Tag name can be set to this parameter If a tag name is set the value of that tag at run time will be used as the deadband value and thus can be changed by operators using a SmartPanel object Halt Tag optional field This parameter specifies a tag name If the tag is set to 1 processing of the alarm tag will be halted Neither the occurrence nor the reset of alarm will be detected If this setting is omitted the alarm tag is always effective The tag name set in this field cannot be identical to the Tag name in Output Tag field When the value of the Halt Tag is set to 1 system will suspend all alarm functions of the alarm Tag including alarming acknowledgement and reset Therefore if the Halt Tag is set to 1 after the occurrence of an alarm the alarm will remain even when its alarm condition is cleared Only after the Halt Tag is set to 0 alarm processing of this alarm tag can then be restored and the system will determine whether the alarm should be reset or not Output Tag optional field This parameter specifies a tag name If the alarm occurs the value of Output Tag will be set to 1 When the alarm is acknowledged or reset its value will be set to 0 If this setting is omitted no alarm output action will be performed The tag name set in this field cannot
97. ce nor the reset of alarm will be detected If this 5 17 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual setting is omitted the alarm tag is always effective The tag name set in this field cannot be identical to the Tag name in Output Tag field When the value of the Halt Tag is set to 1 system will suspend all alarm functions of the alarm Tag including alarming acknowledgement and reset Therefore if the Halt Tag is set to 1 after the occurrence of an alarm the alarm will remain even when its alarm condition is cleared Only after the Halt Tag is set to 0 alarm processing of this alarm tag can then be restored and the system will determine whether the alarm should be reset or not Output Tag optional field This parameter specifies a tag name If the alarm occurs the value of Output Tag will be set to 1 When the alarm is acknowledged or reset its value will be set to 0 If this setting is omitted no alarm output action will be performed The tag name set in this field cannot be identical to the Tag name in Halt Tag field Setting of this parameter is effective only when Trigger Output is also set in alarm Action Alm Group mandatory field This parameter specifies the Alarm Group the alarm tag belongs to Alarm Group is a number between 0 65535 and will be used by Alarm WAV Player object to determine which wave file should be played Please refer to SmartPanel Users Manual for detail on the object
98. ceived after this time limit the command is considered failed The next communication command will be sent Unit of this parameter is ms Q lt Station Delay gt When the I O driver is communicating with multiple I O devices ex devices on a RS 485 network the I O driver will poll the devices in turns for data This parameter specifies the time between the finish of a communication session with a device and the beginning of the 10 6 Chapter 10 IO Drivers communication session with the next device Unit of this parameter is ms Q lt Command Delay gt When the I O driver is configured to scan multiple data from a device it may need to send several communications read all the data This parameter is used to define the time between the finish of receiving of response from the device and the beginning of the next command sent Unit of this parameter is ms Q lt Error Count gt Most I O driver use Communication Tag to indicate the communication status between it and the I O device Judgment of communication status is based on the number of consecutive communication command failure This parameter specifies the maximum number of consecutive failed communication command sent to a specific device after which the value of the communication tag will be set to 1 Q lt Retries gt If the response received from an I O device has incorrect format as expected by the driver it will consider it as a communication error and retry the
99. certain Fault CO OffLine On Line Unknown otat ae Input Output E C Unknown Uncertain Fault O Off Line On Line Uncertain otat aa Input Output amp C Unknown 2 Uncertain Fault OffLine OnLine Offline Stat S Input Output E Unknown C Uncertain Feutt OffLine OnLine Online gt Output State Show the input state of the tag status Input Output g CD Unknown C Uncertain Fault Offline On Line Output Fault O Date Time gt Date The date when the data of the selected tag changed Ex 2006 01 01 gt Time The date when the data of the selected tag changed Ex 16 04 59 645 J Content 14 3 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual gt Value The value of the selected tag gt Message The message of the selected tag The length limit of the message is 80 characters Show Tag Data Click on a tag name in the Tag List to display its data The data displayed will be updated as the tag data change TagView BE e 4 TAG Name Nome Ta SERROR USER Status 4LARM Input Output ALM_PRI CoUnkiown O Uncertain Fault IDLE Offline OnLine BLINK TIME i RUN Date time Auta aye zie 2006 07 26 Time Eea LOGOUT DISK Data Tag Tage Taq3 Message Test Taq Tagg Value Write Tag Data Tag View can be used to modify real time tag data Operation to modify each data item is discussed as follows 14 4 Chapter 14 TagView TaeView
100. cified below as data file path If a source Data Group from a remote workstation is used it is not the workstation running the report it is highly possible this option should be used Since the default data path is set from the point of view of the workstation storing data instead of the workstation running the report the report workstation might not be able to locate the data files according to default path Report Title1 Report Title 2 Define the two lines of texts to be shown above the report The titles have the length limit of 80 characters Interval The property has different meaning in Trend Report When drawing a data curve if two consecutive data records on the data file have time difference larger than this value the two data point won t be connected in the trend chart The unit of Interval is second Note The value of this property should never be smaller than the Data Interval setting of the source Data Group Otherwise the trend curve cannot be drawn correctly since all data points are not connected The unit of Interval is second This property is ignored if the report is a monthly or yearly report Y Axis Setting Label The label text of the Y axis Its length limit is 80 characters 7 11 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Max Min The maximum and minimum value of the Y axis Major Ticks Minor Ticks Used to define the ticks on the Y axis Minor Ticks defined the length between two neighborin
101. d the field is left blank High High Alarm is disabled LL mandatory field Low Low limit of the alarm tag If the value of the alarm tag is smaller than or equal to the limit Low Low Alarm occurs This parameter can either be a constant value or a tag name If a tag name is set the value of that tag at run time is used as low low limit Alarm Msg This parameter specifies the message content of the low low alarm message It is a string with length limit of 80 characters If no message is defined the field is left blank Low Low Alarm is disabled 9 2 7 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Remark optional field A short description of the alarm tag It s a string used for descriptive purpose only Action optional field These are options specifying what actions will be taken when the alarm occurs Some Actions may need the accompany setting of other fields Log to Database Messages of the alarm will be logged to Active Alarm Database and Alarm History Database If this Action is not selected message of this alarm won t be shown in Alarm Bar and Alarm Log objects in SmartPanel However Annunciator and Group Annunciator objects will still reflect the alarm status of this alarm Reset When Acked Acknowledging this alarm will also reset it Set NEW_ALM Set the value of system tag NEW_ALM to 1 if this alarm occurs Print Message Print messages including alarm acknowledge and reset messages imm
102. d CTO are used for digital tags and all other types are used for analog tags The Aggregation method will also be applied to the aggregation when daily data are combined into a record in the monthly files and when monthly data are combined into a record in the yearly files as well Output Tag This parameter specifies a tag name Its value will be set as the aggregation and calculation result of the Data tag at Data Group intervals This setting is effective only when Send to Output is also selected in the Action option of this data tag Gain and Offset These parameters are used for linear conversion on the aggregation result The aggregation result of the Data tag will be multiplied by Gain and added with Offset before stored to data files or set to Output Tag Possible application of these parameters may be unit or percentage conversion You can ignore the setting by leaving these parameters to its default of 1 and 0 In that case no conversion will be performed Remark A short text string can be entered here for the description on the Data tag It is recommended to 6 10 Chapter 6 Data add description on Data tag for distinction especially when a tag is added to the Data Tags list more than once using different aggregation Action J Save to Files Store the aggregation and conversion result to the data file of the Data group 1 Sent to Output Set the aggregation and conversion result to the value of the tag specified by
103. d reset messages records by time It can be viewed queried and printed using the add on module LogView alarm report program Alarm Log Format Messages are logged at each alarms stages so there are three kinds of messages alarm message acknowledge message and reset message If Single Log is used a complete reset message contains the following information Alarm DateTime AlarmName AlarmMessage AckDateTime Acked by User Reset DateTime AlarmName ResetMessage Ex 2005 01 02 10 20 05 Reactor Temperature too high 2005 01 02 10 21 04 Acked by User A 2005 01 02 10 30 25 Reactor Temperature normal lf Dual Log is used Active Alarm Database contains both alarm and acknowledge message with format Alarm DateTime AlarmName AlarmMessage AckDateTime Acked by User When the alarm is reset the record will be removed from Active Alarm Database combined with reset message and stored into Alarm History Database with the format Alarm DateTime AlarmName AlarmMessage Reset DateTime ResetMessage 5 3 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual AckDateTime Acked by User Ex Reactor Temperature 2005 01 02 10 20 05 too high 2005 01 02 10 30 25 normal 2005 01 02 10 21 04 Acked by User A Note mean the text behind should be part of the previous line Alarm Types There are eight different types of alarm conditions Q Digital Alarm Suitable for digital Tags Can be further divided to two sub types D1 and DO D1 alarm occ
104. datory field This parameter specifies the content of the reset message It is a string with length limit of 80 characters Deviation Base mandatory field The base value for Deviation alarm This parameter can either be a constant value or a tag name If a tag name is set the value of that tag at run time is used as high limit H Alarm Msg This parameter specifies the message content of the high alarm message It is a string with length limit of 80 characters If no message is defined the field is left blank High Alarm is disabled Deviation mandatory field The deviation value for Deviation alarm This parameter can either be a constant value or a tag name If a tag name is set the value of that tag at run time is used as high limit L Alarm Msg This parameter specifies the message content of the low alarm message It is a string with length limit of 80 characters If no message is defined the field is left blank Low Alarm is disabled 5 40 Chapter 5 Alarm Remark optional field A short description of the alarm tag It s a string used for descriptive purpose only Action optional field These are options specifying what actions will be taken when the alarm occurs Some Actions may need the accompany setting of other fields Log to Database Messages of the alarm will be logged to Active Alarm Database and Alarm History Database If this Action is not selected message of this alarm won t be
105. ddress Crain Offset Mask shalt g agl Register Read onlyiR I fi fi 02 fi OOOOOL sal 0 xFFFF Ado 0 Insert Delete Copy Faste ox Cancel Help Press button to enter source reference dialog of NewTag1 Press Add button to add a new Reference Variable RO Define its parameters as shown below a lO Type lO Address Offset Shift Press Add button to add a new Reference Variable R1 Define its parameters as shown below lO Type lO Address Offset Shift Enter the following setting in the tag setting fields at the bottom of the dialog Description The settings above first store the value of R 100 in variable RO It then times the value R 101 by 1000 add the value of variable of RO and store the result to variable R1 Lastly it times the value of R 102 by 1000000 add it with variable R1 and send the result to tag NewTag Therefore the value of NewTag1 is calculated with the equation below as expected 10 28 NewTag1 R 102 1 000 000 R 101 x1 000 R 100 eT Y R1 Chapter 10 IO Drivers Delete IO Driver i Project Projl _ OX Modules Files Pe Tag Alarm Data Report Sy 1 Driver DDE Coy Fropertiesi MODEMO OPC Con Basic Setting MODBM Netvrork script Add IO Driver Delete MODEM lO Driver Delete Fename MODBM jJ Are you sure you want to delete 10 Driver MODBM aa Disable Delete an IO Driver Right click on the IO driver
106. ds but not to induce the usually alarm processing LogView the Alarm Report add on module can be used to view and print the event records Alarm Setting Event Add ee ee I Disable pala Se ee Sie D4 ew Alarm Halt Tag Priority l af Output Tag i Alm Group 0 Delay Time 0 oec Reset delay Event 0 Message 0 Event Message f Event Femark Action Log to Database Print Message Reset When Acked Log to History lv Set NEW ALM Trigger Output System Tags Play TTS Voice Delete Th Add Event a Tags Add Tags list shows all the Tags in Tag database Click on the check box System Tag to show system Tags in the list if one of system Tags needs to be used as a digital alarm You can also add a new Tag by pressing button on top of the Tags list 5 55 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Alarm Tags select a Tag and press Add Alarm button to add it as a digital alarm Tag The Tag will appear in the Alarm Tags list Select a Tag in the Alarm Tags list and its alarm setting appears on the right half of the dialog Alarm Setting Name mandatory field This parameter defines the name of the alarm Tag when it appears in the alarm message The limit on the length is 80 characters A string enclosed in a pair of square brackets can appear in the beginning of Name and a character can be used in the cat
107. e This setting should be exactly the same as the method used by the device Data Bit specify the number of data bit used by the driver Selections include 5 6 7 or 8 This setting should be exactly the same as the data bit used by the device Stop Bit Specify the number of data bit used by the driver Selections include 1 or 2 This setting should be exactly the same as the stop bit used by the device Comm Tag Prefix Comm Tag Prefix is used to name Communication Tag Communication Tag is used to indicate the communication status between Lab LINK PC and the I O device I O driver will set the value of Communication Tag to 1 if the communication breakdown Comm Tag Prefix has a length limit of 5 or 6 characters depends on the I O driver used The actual communication tag name used will be the prefix with a 2 or 3 digit index number behind it The index number is generated by the driver automatically and always starts with 1 For example if PLC1 PLC2 and PLC3 are the devices defined in an I O driver and the Comm Tag Prefix is MBPLC The actual communication Tag for the devices will be MBPLC001 MBPLCO002 and MBPLCOO3 respectively If the prefix entered has less characters then the number needed 5 or 6 depending on the driver used system will make up the length with X behind After the communication setting press button to configure parameters for each device in this diver see next section W
108. e and alarm message too high may display its alarm message as 2006 01 01 12 00 00 Area A Reactor Temperature too high LogView will have two levels of categories for queries User can search for alarm records with major categories of Area A and minor category of Reactor Priority mandatory field When more than one alarm occurs at the same time Priority is used to determine which alarm will be handled first Priority should be between 1 255 with the higher value representing higher priority A system tag ALM_PRI is used to show the highest Priority value in all active unacknowledged alarms Deadband optional field This parameter specifies a dead band range Dead band is designed to avoid the annoyance of frequent alarm and reset of an analog alarm whose value is close to the alarm limit As shown in the figure below the shaded area within alarm limits are the dead bands 5 37 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Value Deadband i IN Deadband canon 50 i Base Doviation 20 35 30 5 oi Deadband Stage 1 2 3 4 5 6 Alarm status of the Tag with dead band Base 50 Deviation 20 Deadband 5 Pt ostas homa O OOO 4 65 gt Tag gt 30 Normal Resen 6 35 gt Tag 30 jLowAlam Above low limit but still within deadband Normal Reset Above low limit and deadband lf a Deadband is set the alarm will not reset although alarm tag value is within alarm limit but still inside the dead ba
109. e Mask Shift and Data Type conversion have been performed Data in EU are the tag data in correct engineering unit that will be display and stored in Lab LINK Conversion Data in EU Raw Data aint Offset Calculate Gain and Offset ain and Offset Faw Data Data in EU Min 0 0 rain Max 1 l Offset Calculate Gain and Offset Gain and offset setting There two method to define gain and offset as described below Specify Gain and Offset Click to select Gain and Offset to specify these two parameters directly Enter Gain and Offset value in the corresponding fields and IO Driver will use them to perform Gain and Offset operation at runtime Crain l ti Offset E For Lab LINK 4 0 IO Drivers whose IO Tags use I O address setting Tag names can also be used in Gain and Offset settings Users can enter an established Tag name in the fields or use the drop down list to select a Tag name 10 25 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Crain and Offset Gain lags hd Offset Tag4 If Tag names are used as Gain and Offset Lab LINK users will be able to change Gain and Offset values at runtime However the change will take effect only after the next IO scan Calculate Gain and Offset Click to select Calculate Gain and Offset and enter Min and Max values of Raw Data and Data in EU Press button and the system will calculate the actual Gain and Offset value according to the Raw and EU data range ent
110. e OPC server will be during development and runtime stage of the Lab LINK project E Development Stage Specify the location of the OPC server at development time Since the system needs to locate and start the OPC server to browse it for established data items correct location must be specified for further configuration of the OPC Connection If the OPC server is on the same computer where Lab LINK is please select Local Server Otherwise please select Remote Server If Remote Server is selected a Node Name the name of the computer the OPC server resides The remote computer must be accessible on the network at this time and with proper DCOM configuration for the OPC Connection to be further configured E Runtime Stage Specify the location of the OPC server when the Lab LINK project is run This setting is not required now but will be needed when Lab LINK project is run Select Local Server if it will on the same computer where Lab LINK will be run Select Remote Server if it is on another computer on the network A Node Name must be specified for Remote Server Please make sure the remote computer can be accessed by the Lab LINK computer and with proper DCOM setting for OPC to work A short text can be entered in the Remark field at the bottom of the dialog to provide description of the connection Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Please select an OPC Server Please select an OPC Server Refresh Local host USEROZ Test
111. e created and their properties including Init or retain value can be set See Tag chapter for details Alarm Used for Alarm basic setting and Alarm Tag settings Alarm is further divided into 8 categories Digital Used for digital alarm User can specify an alarm occur when an alarm Tag change from 0 to 1 or 1 to O High Low Alarm Used for analog alarm A high limit and a low limit can be set If the alarm Tag value is greater than the high limit a high alarm occurs If the alarm Tag value is smaller than the low limit and the low alarm occurs HH H L LL Alarm Used for analog Alarm Similar to High Low alarm but provide a second set of high high and low low limit setting A high high alarm occurs when the alarm tag value is greater than the high high limit while a low low alarm occurs if the value is smaller than the low low limit Rate of Change Alarm Used for analog alarms If the rate of change of the alarm tag is greater than a set limit an alarm occurs Deviation Alarm Used for analog alarm A base value and a deviation are set If the alarm tag value is greater or smaller than the base by the value of the deviation then the alarm occurs Timeout Used for digital alarm When the state of a digital alarm tag changed it is compared to the value of a referenced Tag If the alarm Tag does not change as the referenced Tag within a preset time limit an alarm occurs Trip Used for digital al
112. e data curve There are two ways to select color for the data curve a Enter color composition of Red Green and Blue in the fields The range of each color is 0 255 O Press button to open the Color dialog Click on a color and press button to select it You can define your own color by pressing the User Color button Custom colors ai E a im z EO EBBS Em EB TEE B06 6B EE EEEN Define Custom Colors gt gt Cancel Color setting Delete a Report Right click on a Report in the Project windows and select Delete from the popup menu a message box will appear to request for delete confirmation Press button to delete the report Or press button to cancel the operation 7 14 Chapter 7 Report Project Proji Alarm Data Report fin Report O Driver Properties ReportG 1 DDE Con Basic Settng Reperts 1 OPC Corr Network C script Add Report Report Delete Delete Rep orta 1 Rename Reporte 1 Are you sure you want to delete the Report Reporta 1 Adjust Report Order It is possible to adjust the order a report appears in the report selecting drop down list in the runtime Report program Right click on the Report node in the Project window and select Adjust Order from the popup menu A dialog will appear to allow adjusting or report order Select a report by clicking its name in the report list an Ex icon will appear to indicate the
113. econd 0 of minute 0 4 8 12 56 of each hour File Name Pretix Datl_ TY Specify the prefix of the data file names created by the Data Group The prefix has a length limit of 6 characters The actual file name used by the Data Group with combine the Prefix with the date indicated as next to the prefix in the dialog when data is stored For example if the Prefix is Dat1_ the data file name on the first day of each month will be Dat1_01 File Type Data File Format Two File Types are supported by Data module of Lab LINK File Type RES MS eran eee Lab LINE Data File DF lal 1 Lab LINK Data File XDF Store data in Lab LINK proprietary data file format This is the file tyoe used by SmartPanel Data Trend object and Lab LINK Report Be sure to select this type if you are using them 6 4 Chapter 6 Data XDF is the daily Lab LINK data file holding the data of one day Data module can generating monthly data files automatically by aggregating the data in a daily file into a record in the monthly file In the same manner data in a monthly file can be aggregated automatically as a record and stored into a yearly file Monthly file names will combine the same prefix with the month it is created and with the extension name of XMF ex Dat1_01 XMF Similarly yearly files are named with the prefix combining with the last two digit of the year but with extension name of XYF Ex Dat1_06
114. ections DDE Connection DOE DDE Connection Name ODE Application Name Topic Name Remark s l 4 Add Delete Penamet Help Application Specify the name of the DDE server for this connection Please refer to the manual of the server application for this name Topic Specify the name of the topic in the DDE server from which data will be received Please refer to the manual of the server application for this name Remark Enter a short tag to describe the connection DDE Connection Setting Right click on a DDE Connection in the Project window and select Properties from the popup menu to show the dialog below Left of the dialog is Tags list showing all the tags in the workstation Next to it is the DDE Tags list showing all the tags that have been added into this connection Select a tag from the DDE Tags list and its setting is shown on the right half of the dialog 8 3 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual DDE1 Setting Disable Tag Name Tagi DDE Connection DDE Data Item Data Remark Taq Delete D Add DDE Tag se lt i e To add a new DDE tag select a tag name from the Tags list and press Add DDE Tag button The tag will appear in the DDE Tags list and you can edit its setting To delete a DDE tag select it from the DDE Tags list and press button Setting for each DDE tag includes Tag Name Define which tag will be connected to the data item in DDE server DDE Connec
115. ediately when alarm condition of this alarm changed A valid printer port must be selected in Alarm Basic Setting for the option to be effective Be sure to install appropriate printer driver also Log to History Log messages including alarm acknowledge and reset messages of this alarm to the Alarm History File If this option is not selected messages of this alarm won t be recorded in the history file History File checkbox must be selected in Alarm Basic Setting for this parameter to have effect Trigger Output Set the value of Output Tag to 1 when the alarm occurs This setting is effective only when an Output Tag name is also specified Play TTS Voice When the alarm occurs read the alarm message using TTS Text to Speech Operating system must support TTS of the language used in alarm messages for this setting to be effective Note TTS needs the support of Windows Speech API SAPI Windows XP support SAPI but Windows 2000 Besides Windows XP only support TTS in some 5 28 Chapter 5 Alarm languages Press Delete D button to delete an alarm tag from Alarm Tags list and remove its alarm settings Disable If the checkbox is checked the alarm setting of this alarm tag is disabled and no alarm processing is performed on the tag at runtime The disabled alarm tag will also appear in gray color in the Alarm Tags list Close Press button to end alarm setting and close the dialog Help Press button t
116. ediately without the confirmation Tag Manager Ferran Tag Name Tage Init Wale falue Message Retain value Remark o Rename E Close Help 4 5 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Delete Tag Module List Tage is used by these modules iO Driver Device Note Deleting the Tag will also delete related settings inthe modules above Note When a Tag is deleted only the setting related to the Tag in currently editing workstation will be deleted If other workstation also uses this Tag you may need to do the deletion in that workstation separately Tag settings in panel file are also not affected by the deletion mode here If needed you should modify object setting in each panel file by yourself Rename Tag select a Tag from the Tags list and press button to rename the Tag If the Tag is already used by other modules a message box showing which modules are using it appears to request for confirmation on the renaming Press button to rename the Tag or press button to cancel the operation If is pressed the message will disappear to allow you to edit the Tag name directly on the Tags list When you finish editing pressed Enter key on your keyboard and settings related to the Tag in all the modules will be modified to reflect the change If the Tag is not used by any module it can be renamed without the confirmation 4 6 Chapter 4 Tag Tag Manager Tag Name Tage Init Va
117. eds a longer interval Ex 1 Hour report module will combined the multiple records in the data file using the aggregation method specified discussed in later section into a record on the report This can reduce the amount of data and make the report more readable for the users This setting can be expressed as Report Interval Data Interval Data Records Interval Report Interval Data Interval Data Records SEC spells x Records Report Interval The time between two consecutive data on the report It is a multiple of the Data Interval 7 5 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Data Interval The time between two consecutive data records in the data files This is the same interval of the source Data Group on the report uses This value is automatically given based on the setting in source Data Group It can only be changed if the setting in Data Group is changed Data Records Number of consecutive data records in data file that will be aggregated into a data in the report Format These settings define the format of the report when it is printed QO Font Size The font size of the data in the Report O ROC Era Use Taiwan year system in date display QO Common Era Use the standard year system in data display QO Landscape Set the paper orientation of the report printout to Landscape Q Portrait Set the paper orientation of the report printout to Portrait Report Type Based on the time range of data r
118. effect Trigger Output Set the value of Output Tag to 1 when the alarm occurs This setting is effective only when an Output Tag name is also specified Play TTS Voice When the alarm occurs read the alarm message using TTS Text to Speech Operating system must support TTS of the language used in alarm messages for this setting to be effective 5 47 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Note TTS needs the support of Windows Speech API SAPI Windows XP support SAPI but Windows 2000 Besides Windows XP only support TTS in some languages Delete D Press Delete D button to delete an alarm tag from Alarm Tags list and remove its alarm settings Disable If the checkbox is checked the alarm setting of this alarm tag is disabled and no alarm processing is performed on the tag at runtime The disabled alarm tag will also appear in gray color in the Alarm Tags list Press button to end alarm setting and close the dialog Help Press button to open help document related to this topic 5 48 Chapter 5 Alarm Trip Alarm Setting Suitable for digital Tags When the value of the alarm Tag changed the value of a Reference Tag is examine It is expected that the change of the alarm tag is due the action of the Reference Tag If there is no previous value change on the Reference Tag to induce the change of alarm tag the alarm occurs This alarm type can be further divided into three sub types XO Alarm occu
119. effect immediately for the current running project However if the user setting is not saved to file when exiting Security Editor the modified setting will not be saved When the Lab LINK project is exited and run again since the original user setting file will loaded the deleted user will still exist To prevent this problem be sure to save the user setting before exiting Security Editor Limitation on the Use of Security Editor Use of Security Editor may be limited if the current user doesn t have the top privilege of 255 Security Editor user can only view add delete and modify users with privilege smaller than his For example if current login user has the privilege of 200 the password and name setting of those users whose privilege are 200 or higher will be displayed as It is also impossible to create a user with higher or equal privilege as current user 13 7 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Security Editor User s Information Mame 1 32 Char SE Password 1 32 Char iia Privilege 1 255 Limit on the use of Security Editor Exit Security Editor and Save Setting Security Editor Dow Move Minimize xX Close Alt F4 Options About Security Editor After finishing all user settings press the button or click on Security Editor s control button the icon on the top left corner of the window and select Close to exit the tool If any of the user setting ha
120. egeneration and re execution of the project the disabled script module won t be loaded and run The module will appear in gray color in the Module tree in the Project window 12 5 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual when disabled To resume the use of a disabled script module right click on the script module and select Enable Script from its popup menu Regenerate the project and the script module will be run when the project starts i Project Projl OX is Project Projl k OX Modules Files Wf Modules Fies EY Wks fel Tag Alarm 9 Data C Report 9 10 Driver 9 DDE Connection 9 DDE Connection 9 OPC Connection 9 OPC Connection 9 Network Connection i ZY Script Script x Edit Script CSLPRG 1 a Edit Seript CSLPRG1 Add Script Add Script Delete Script CSLPRG1 Delete Script CSLPRG1 Disable X T Emable 12 6 Introduction Lab LINK provides a security mechanism to manage the user security at Lab LINK runtime Through the use of password and privilege it is possible to control that only users with proper authorization can conduct certain operation Lab LINK uses a simple but effective method for security management Each user is assigned with a privilege and most control object in SmartPanel can also be assigned a minimum privilege that allow the operation of the objects At runtime when a user tries to operate a control object in a panel the system will compare the
121. egory string to separate main category and sub category The strings will be used by the add on LogView alarm report module as categories for queries For example the message for an alarm Tags with Name Electrical System Area A Power panel VCB 1 and alarm message Trip may display its alarm message as 2006 01 01 12 00 00 Electrical System Area A Power panel VCB 1 Trip LogView will have two levels of categories for queries User can search for alarm records with major categories of Electrical System and minor category of Area A Tags Add Tags list shows all the Tags in Tag database Click on the check box System Tag to show system Tags in the list if one of system Tags needs to be used as a digital alarm You can also add a new Tag by pressing button on top of the Tags list Alarm Tags select a Tag and press Add Alarm button to add it as a digital alarm Tag The Tag will appear in the Alarm Tags list select a Tag in the Alarm Tags list and its alarm setting appears on the right half of the dialog 5 56 Chapter 5 Alarm Alarm Setting Name mandatory field This parameter defines the name of the alarm Tag when it appears in the alarm message The limit on the length is 80 characters One or two string enclosed in a pair of square brackets can appear in the beginning of Name The strings will be used by the add on LogView alarm report module as categories for queries For example the message
122. eld This parameter specifies the message content of the alarm message It is a string with length limit of 80 characters Remark optional field A short description of the alarm tag It s a string used for descriptive purpose only Action optional field These are options specifying what actions will be taken when the alarm occurs Some Actions may need the accompany setting of other fields Log to Database Messages of the alarm will be logged to Active Alarm Database and Alarm History Database If this Action is not selected message of this alarm won t be shown in Alarm Bar and Alarm Log objects in SmartPanel However Annunciator and Group Annunciator objects will still reflect the alarm status of this alarm Reset When Acked Acknowledging this alarm will also reset it Set NEW_ALM Set the value of system tag NEW_ALM to 1 if this alarm occurs Print Message Print messages including alarm acknowledge and reset messages immediately when alarm condition of this alarm changed A valid printer port must be selected in Alarm Basic Setting for the option to be effective Be sure to install appropriate printer driver also Log to History Log messages including alarm acknowledge and reset messages of this alarm to the Alarm History File If this option is not selected messages of this alarm won t be recorded in the history file History File checkbox must be selected in Alarm Basic Setting for this para
123. elopment Tools of PAM which includes Lab LINK for Windows PAM Project Administration Ma ProjectiF view W Punt MEWE Help C se H Panel Editor PrEdit exe Mew Open save Tag View Tagview exe Security Editor ScrEdit exe Report Reportexe SmartScript Editor Control exe Panel Editor Start panel editor for user to edit a panel file TagView Start TagView the tool to help you test and debug a project Security Editor Start Security Editor the tool to manage users by setting their username password and privilege Report Run Report and load report setting of current project SmartScript Start SmartScript Editor the tool to edit and debug script 2 16 Chapter 2 PAM Help Ea Lab LINK for Windows PAM Project Administration ProjectiF Viewty RuntR ToolfT MESEN po m ei contentio Mew Open Save Close Index C About PAM Display version and license information of Lab LINK License Version Shows which license version of Lab LINK is running If a keypro is not detected it will show Evaluation Project Version Project files version number of the opened project Program Version Program file version number of PAM System Info Information recorded in the Keypro including license version and I O Tag capacity If no Keypro is detected Max I O Tags will be 0 About SmartPAM Lab LINK for Windows Smart PAM Version Max
124. emote monitoring and control A client workstation can connect to multiple server workstations at the same time to receive data from different sources 9 1 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Any workstation can be server and client at the same time to provide real time data to other workstations while receiving some other real time data from other workstations Basic Setting of Server Workstation Some basic information related to its network setting must be defined for a server workstation Right click on a workstation node in the Project window and select Basic Setting from its popup menu The Basic Setting dialog will appear to allow the setting below Project Proji Modules Basic Setting wks 13 Add VWokstation Copy Workstation yvks 1 Delete Workstaton vvks 1 Rename os Network Cor oMieeten J Script Workstation Wks1 Basic Setting identification Workstation IP and Computer Name Name WKS Clear IF Address l E Clear Clear i J Clear Clear Remark Cancel Help Workstation basic setting More than one IP address can be set to a workstation Client can select an appropriate IP address fitting its network setting when creating a Network Connection with this server Computer Name Specify the network computer name of the workstation 9 2 Chapter 9 Network Connection IP Address Specify the IP address of the workstation Up to four set of IP addresses can
125. en the alarm occurs and the value of the alarm tag is 1 It is a string with length limit of 80 characters 5 52 Chapter 5 Alarm Reference Tag mandatory field The Tag used to compare with the alarm tag to determine its alarm status Remark optional field A short description of the alarm tag It s a string used for descriptive purpose only Action optional field These are options specifying what actions will be taken when the alarm occurs Some Actions may need the accompany setting of other fields Log to Database Messages of the alarm will be logged to Active Alarm Database and Alarm History Database If this Action is not selected message of this alarm won t be shown in Alarm Bar and Alarm Log objects in SmartPanel However Annunciator and Group Annunciator objects will still reflect the alarm status of this alarm Reset When Acked Acknowledging this alarm will also reset it Set NEW_ALM Set the value of system tag NEW_ALM to 1 if this alarm occurs Print Message Print messages including alarm acknowledge and reset messages immediately when alarm condition of this alarm changed A valid printer port must be selected in Alarm Basic Setting for the option to be effective Be sure to install appropriate printer driver also Log to History Log messages including alarm acknowledge and reset messages of this alarm to the Alarm History File If this option is not selected messages of
126. entered in authentication dialog There is no way to change user name at login O Check User If the option is selected the authentication dialog will require user to enter user name as well as password Both user name and password must be valid and matched for the authentication to succeed O Case Sensitive If the option is selected the password is case sensitive 13 9 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Note Only one of the first two options can be selected at the same time The first two advanced setting relate to authentication method Lab LINK has three authentication methods O Neither Password Only nor Check User is set User can enter password and user name at authentication but only password will be used for validation The entered user name will replace the user name in Security Setting File and will appear in alarm acknowledge record and system tag USER However the entered user name will not be saved to Security Setting File O Set Password Only but not Check User User can only enter password at authentication and only password will be validated There is no way to change user name unless using Security Editor O Set Check User but not Password Only User has to enter password and user name Both will be used for validation There is no way to change user name unless using Security Editor security Setting File Security Setting File is used to store all user settings When a Lab LINK project starts the system wi
127. eport is considered being run alone and users need to press the button in Report to end its execution Runtime Report Operation Runtime window of the Report module is shown in the figure below Users can select report and data date to generate the report The report will then display on the screen and can be printed out To end the execution of Report Press Exit button Lab LINK for Windows Report Sysetm Type ReportT1 v pa oymomo f A0 Pime SmartReport runtime operation Select a Report Click on the Report Type drop down list and a list of configured reports of the workstation is shown Select a report by clicking on its name The name of the report selected appears on the top of the list 7 19 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Lab LINK for Windows Report Sysetm Type Uitelad Bl gt Preview Exit Date cen rtT1 Print Select a Date After the selection of a report a date must be select to locate the data to be retrieved Click on the year month and day drop down list to select a date Day and month selection may be disabled if the report is a monthly or yearly report lf data expiration setting in Data Group is One Month the selection of year and month will be disabled Lab LINK for Windows Report Sysetm Type ReportT1 v Date YY MO DD 10 Print 1s 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 v If data expiration setting in Data Group is One Year the selection of year will be disabled
128. eports can be classified into three types a Daily Report Contains data of one day the time between data is specified by Report Interval Q Monthly Report Contains data of one month Each data represent the aggregation of one day Q Yearly Report Contains data of one month Each data represent the aggregation of one day Please refer to Data module chapter for details on how monthly or yearly data are aggregated Text Report Setting 7 6 Right click on a Report and select Properties from its popup menu to open the Setting dialog Left of the dialog is Tags list that shows all available tags in the source Data Group the Report references These are the tags can be used in the report Next to Tags list is the Report Tags list which lists the tags already added to the Report Chapter 7 Report Select a tag from the Tags list and press Add Report Tag button to add the data tag to the report It will then appear in the Report Tags list The same tag can be added to the report more than once to be shown in different column This allows the report to display a tag using different aggregation methods To distinguish report tag referring to the same tag name it is recommended to enter remark text for each report tag To remove a tag from the report select the tag from the Report Tags list and press button Select a tag from the Report Tags list and its setting is shown on the right half of the dialog These setting are Report
129. er to LPT1 or LPT 2 if one is used Note Be sure to set up at least one printer for the printer port specified in Windows Printer Setting Otherwise your system will appear hung and cease to respond for a period as long as several minutes when an alarm occurs and the system try to locate a printer to print out the message To prevent this please select None if alarm printing is not used Alarm Log Path History File Besides the alarm log databases discussed in Alarm Log Option there is another alarm logging choice alarm History File This is a text file used to record alarm history If this logging option is selected in alarm Tags Action setting alarm acknowledge and reset messages will all be logged into this file Add on module LogView can then be used to view query and print the log Click on History File checkbox to select storing alarm history file Default Path of History File is Project ProjectName dat Histort log located at the dat sub folder under project folder that is also denoted as Reference Folder 6 Users can change this default location by keying a different path To reset the path to its default press button Active Alarm Database Click on the checkbox to store Active Alarm Database into a file using Lab LINK proprietary format The file can contain up to 1024 latest alarm records Active Alarm Database won t be stored if this option is not selected and all active alarm records
130. ered automatically The calculated Gain and Offset values will appear in the fields on the right The example below is used to illustrate gain and offset application Calculate Gain and Offset 0 Gain and Offset Faw Data Data in EU hain 2048 0 Gain hax 2047 10 Offset Ex An analog input in an IO device is used to measure a pressure value The measuring range of the pressure sensor is 0 10 Kg cm The sensor is connected to a transmitter which converts the pressure into 4 20mA signal for the use of the I O device The IO device will then measurement the signal do the AD conversion and store it as an integer with range between 2048 and 2047 in its register Raw Data Min 2048 Max 2047 Data in EU Min 0 Max 10 Description Raw data are the data IO Driver acquire from the I O device In this case the data have a range between 2048 and 2047 Data in EU is the tag data displayed and stored by Lab LINK that is the pressure value in pressure unit Kg cm Therefore the 10 26 Chapter 10 IO Drivers data in EU has the range between 0 and 10 Entering these limits in the I O setting dialog and use the automatic calculation function the system will calculate the actual Gain and Offset used by I O driver as 0 002442 and 5 001216 respectively At runtime when I O driver read raw data of 2048 0 amp 2047 from the IO device the tag will show data in EU as 2048x0 002442 5 001216 0 Kg cm 0x0 002442 5 001216 5 0
131. erence for editing Smart Script Editor will be run and the script file will be loaded After all editing is done exit SmartScript Editor to return to PAM is Project Frojl Modules 1 n J Alarm J Data T Report J 18 Driver DDE Connection J OPC Connection J Network Connection 3 Seript Pan Pag i a io 7 T Edit Sernpt lsLPRG 1 Add Script Delete Scnpt CSLPRGI Disable 12 4 Chapter 12 Script Delete Script Module Right click on a script module and select Delete Script from its popup menu to delete the module ia Project Projl J I Driver DDE Connection J OPC Connection T Network Connection Edit ScriptiSLPRG1 Add Script Delete Seript CSLPRG 1 Disable A message box will appear to request for confirmation Press button to confirm the deletion or press button to cancel the operation Delete Script e A Are you sure you want to delete this Script Csloo 1 na When a script module is deleted if there is other workstations still reference to the script file the script file will not be deleted but system will only remove the link of the module to the file If there is no other workstation references to the script file a message box will appear to request whether the script file should be deleted together with the module or not Disable Script Right click on a script module and select Disable Script from its popup menu to disable the script After r
132. ew alarm report module as categories for queries For example the message for an alarm Tags with Name Electrical System Area A Power panel VCB 1 and alarm message Trip may display its alarm message as 2006 01 01 12 00 00 Electrical System Area A Power panel VCB 1 Trip LogView will have two levels of categories for queries User can search for alarm records with major categories of Electrical System and minor category of Area A Type mandatory field This parameter specifies sub type of digital alarm D1 Alarm occurs when Tag value is 1 DO Alarm occurs when Tag value is 0 Priority mandatory field When more than one alarm occurs at the same time Priority is used to determine which alarm will be handled first Priority should be between 1 255 with the higher value representing higher priority A system tag ALM_PRI is used to show the highest Priority value in all active unacknowledged alarms Halt Tag optional field This parameter specifies a tag name If the tag is set to 1 processing of the alarm tag will be halted Neither the occurrence nor the reset of alarm will be detected If this 5 11 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual setting is omitted the alarm tag is always effective The tag name set in this field cannot be identical to the Tag name in Output Tag field When the value of the Halt Tag is set to 1 system will Suspend all alarm functions
133. for Windows Hacia View RuniR Mew th Ctl h Openly Chl a Savetyy Cil S Save as Aj Cri A Delete D Project Info T Projl Froj4 Proj lo Proje Exit Project Change Do you want to save the change to Project Proj1 Yes Wo Cancel Save project confirmation Delete Select Delete from Project menu and a dialog listing all existing project will appear Select a project from the list and press button to delete it Note Delete a project will also remove any file or subfolder under its project folder 2 8 Chapter 2 PAM Delete Project Existing Projects ProjectName Workstat Version Crested Generated 4 Derma Ver 4 01 es 290677 a AU05 12 12 11 07 19 AM Eq Proj ar AL Td Delete Project shot 10 54 41 AM P Are you sure you want to delete project Proje 0b 11 02 27 AM If deleted the project cannot be recovered 25 04 55 15 Pe A project in used or opened cannot be deleted and will be shown in gray color Delete Project Existing Projects Froject Mame CE eae Ver 401 es 20577 TTT Delete Project egibe 03 01 10 54 41 AM Ne OF f06 11 02 27 Abad A Project is in use and cannot be deleted al Nes OF 2S 04 55 15 Po coe Hee _ Import Select Import from Project menu to upgrade a project to current Lab LINK version Project Info Select Project Info from Project menu to show the Project Info Di
134. for an alarm Tags with Name Electrical System Area A Power panel VCB 1 and alarm message turned on may display its alarm message as 2006 01 01 12 00 00 Electrical System Area A Power panel VCB 1 turned on LogView will have two levels of categories for queries User can search for event records with major categories of Electrical System and minor category of Area A Priority mandatory field When more than one alarm occurs at the same time Priority is used to determine which alarm will be handled first Priority should be between 1 255 with the higher value representing higher priority A system tag ALM_PRI is used to show the highest Priority value in all active unacknowledged alarms Halt Tag optional field This parameter specifies a tag name If the tag is set to 1 processing of the alarm tag will be halted Neither the occurrence nor the reset of alarm will be detected If this setting is omitted the alarm tag is always effective The tag name set in this field cannot be identical to the Tag name in Output Tag field When the value of the Halt Tag is set to 1 system will suspend all alarm functions of the alarm Tag including alarming acknowledgement and reset Therefore if the Halt Tag is set to 1 after the occurrence of an alarm the alarm will remain even when its alarm condition is cleared Only after the Halt Tag is set to 0 alarm processing of this alarm tag ca
135. g Minor Ticks in the same unit of the data Major Ticks define how many Minor Ticks length are between two neighboring Major Ticks Format These settings define the format of the report when it is printed a Font Size The font size of the data in the Report a ROC Era Use Taiwan year system in date display a Common Era Use the standard year system in data display a Landscape Set the paper orientation of the report printout to Landscape Q Portrait Set the paper orientation of the report printout to Portrait Report Type Based on the time range of data reports can be classified into three types a Daily Report Contains data of one day the time between data is specified by Report Interval a Monthly Report Contains data of one month Each data represent the aggregation of one day O Yearly Report Contains data of one month Each data represent the aggregation of one day Please refer to Data module chapter for details on how monthly or yearly data are aggregated Trend Report Setting Right click on a Report and select Properties from its popup menu to open the Setting dialog Left of the dialog is Tags list that shows all available tags in the source Data Group the Report references These are the tags can be used in the report Next to Tags list is the Report Tags list 7 12 Chapter 7 Report which lists the tags already added to the Report Select a tag from the Tags list and press button to add the data
136. g System Tags are created by Lab LINK runtime system to store key system information and their names always start with User Tag is defined by users for their specific purpose and their names are given by user Tag Naming Rule Lab LINK has these naming rules for Tag ct iT 7J a All alphanumeric character and some symbol characters such as and can be used Chinese characters can also be used 4 1 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Some symbol characters are not allowed in Tag name gt lt gt amp gt Tag name cannot start with a numeric character but they are allowed in other place Ex 1Tag cannot be used but Tag1 is allowed The limit on the number of characters in a Tag name is 8 A Chinese character will be counted as two characters Tag name is case sensitive Ex Tag1 and TAG1 are two different Tags Tag Data Structure 4 2 There is no need to declare data type for Tag However every Tag contains these data field Name Name of the Tag State State of the Tag Possible states include Unknown The initial state of a Tag when Lab LINK is started Uncertain Reserved Online For an I O Tag means the corresponding data on the I O device can be normally accessed For a non l O Tag it is online when any of the Lab LINK module accesses it Offline The corresponding data on the I O device can not be normally accessed Output Fault The last output attempt
137. g J E4 PPS PS l EEA TE EEA Em ANB R Bos Lod Fas HECER TRS Bo IR MEE EA T EAT ATE Similar to the delete operation if the renamed tag has be used in any of the module setting a Module List will appear to show which modules have used the tag request for confirmation If the operation is confirmed all setting regarding the tag will be renamed as well This operation is also restricted to the workstation under modification only QO Open By right clicking a tag in the tag list and selecting Open from the popup menu its Tag content dialog will be opened After editing of its detail setting press OK to complete the editing or press Cancel to discard the operation Tag content Workstation Wks 1 Tag4 Femark an Tag Init Initial value Initial message Tag keep Cancel Double click on a tag can also open the Tag content dialog O Copy Select a tag from the tag list and drag it to another workstation in the workstation list can copy the tag to the workstation 4 11 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Tag administration Proj2e Workstation Wks 1 System tag Workstation A ag name emar S Wks E Wet If the copied tag is already defined in the target workstation a Copy tag dialog will appear to display the detail setting of the tags of the same name in both source and target workstation Press OK to confirm and overwrite the original tag in the target workstation or press Cancel to
138. g alarm whose value is close to the alarm limit As shown in the figure below the shaded area within alarm limits are the dead bands 9 23 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Temperature C HH 100 es A Deadband 10 H Bo a Deadband 10 30 SMO A L 20 Se Deadband 10 LL r SA Deadband 10 1 2 3 456 7 10 112 13 Stage Alarm status of the Tag with dead band ciaj Tempete Alarm Status Description e Value Exceed high limit but below Tag 80 High Alarm high high limit 4 90 gt Tag 100 highHigh alm Below ah ah limit but still E a 6 0 gt 70 ionnam eters P S n 70 gt Tag 20 Normal Reset Below high limit and dead band E 20 gt Tag 0 Low Alam Boon low limit but above low low 9 Tag lt o Low Low Alarm Below low low limit 10 10 gt Tag 0 Low Low Alarm Above low low limit but still within deadband 11 20 gt Tag 10 Low Alarm Above low low limit and deadband but still below low limit 12 30 Tag gt 20 Low Alarm Above low limit but still within deadband 70 gt Tag gt 30 Normal Reset Above low limit and deadband lf a Deadband is set the alarm will not reset although alarm tag value is within alarm limit but still inside the dead band The alarm is reset only after the tag value is within 5 24 Chapter 5 Alarm alarm limit and also out of the dead band Without this setting if the tag value oscillating at the edge of the alarm limit will cause the alarm to o
139. generated by Comm Tag Prefix and an index number the index number for subsequent device in the Existing Devices list will be decrease by one and their Comm Tag will be changed respectively Please keep this change in mind and make necessary modification to related setting of these Comm Tags if necessary For example if an IO Driver contains two IO Devices DVC1 is the first and DVC2 is the second in the list Their Comm Tags are ComTag01 and ComTag02 respectively with ComTag as the Comm Tag Prefix When DVC1 is deleted ComTag01 will become the Comm Tag of DVC2 while ComTag02 will be useless All settings related to ComTag01 should be changed and ComTag02 can be removed Rename a Device Select a device name from the Existing Devices list and press button Edit its name and press lt Enter gt key on your keyboard to modify its name 10 10 Chapter 10 IO Drivers MODEM Basic Setting Modbus Master Device R545 Existing Devices Device OWC Device Type Station Comm Tag Femark After its name is changed all IO Tags belong to the device in the IO Driver setting will also be modified automatically to reflect this change IO Tag Setting i Project Projl OX Modules Files ss Wks E Tag 9 Alarm J Data _ Report EY 10 Driver Ruf MODBI DDE eae Properties MODBM X OPC Conned Basic Setting M ODBM 9 Network Co Script Add IO Driver Delete MODBM Rename MODBM Disable
140. gh Alarm is disabled Low mandatory field Low limit of the alarm tag If the value of the alarm tag is smaller than or equal to the limit Low Alarm occurs This parameter can either be a constant value or a tag name If a tag name is set the value of that tag at run time is used as low limit Alarm Msg This parameter specifies the message content of the low alarm message It is a string with length limit of 80 characters If no message is defined the field is left blank Low Alarm is disabled 9 19 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Remark optional field A short description of the alarm tag It s a string used for descriptive purpose only Action optional field These are options specifying what actions will be taken when the alarm occurs Some Actions may need the accompany setting of other fields Log to Database Messages of the alarm will be logged to Active Alarm Database and Alarm History Database If this Action is not selected message of this alarm won t be shown in Alarm Bar and Alarm Log objects in SmartPanel However Annunciator and Group Annunciator objects will still reflect the alarm status of this alarm Reset When Acked Acknowledging this alarm will also reset it Set NEW_ALM Set the value of system tag NEW_ALM to 1 if this alarm occurs Print Message Print messages including alarm acknowledge and reset messages immediately when alarm condition of this alarm changed A val
141. gister read only Oo O oO oO UU UO UO U UD O URO Unsigned register read write Note Generally internal coil or register can be read and written Read only selection for these I O give use extra control on the access of these I O If a coil or a register is set to read only Lab LINK will never write any data back to the I O during runtime IO Address I Address 0 This parameter is an integer It specifies the physical I O address on the I O device that the IO tag will be mapped to Range of I O address depends on the I O device In general the I O address is a decimal integer However some I O devices use octal or hexadecimal addresses Please add a prefix O before the address number to indicate it 10 13 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual is an octal address Ex 017 is octal number 17 which is equal to 15 in decimal system For hexadecimal address please add a prefix Ox or a suffix h Ex 0x17 0X17 17h and 17H are all hexadecimal number 17 which is equal to 23 in decimal system Gain Offset Mask and Shift lO Drivers will perform several computation on the raw data acquired from the I O device before assign the data to tags The computations performed are Mask Shift Gain and Offset in the exact order If any of the setting is omitted the corresponding computation will also be spared These parameters will be discussed in later section Disable Disable Selection of this p
142. hen the settings are done press button to 10 4 Chapter 10 IO Drivers close the Basic Setting dialog and return to the Project window Basic Setting Ethernet Interface For I O Driver with Ethernet interface communication parameters include MBTCP Basic Setting Communication IP Address 192 166 1 il Port 502 Comm Tag Prefix MBTCP ani Use Alphanumeric char for Comm Tag Frefix Device D ok Cancel Help Basic Setting dialog of I O Driver with Ethernet interface IP Address Specify the IP address used by the I O device Port Specify the TCP or UDP port number used by the IO device Comm Tag Prefix Comm Tag Prefix is used to name Communication Tag Communication Tag is used to indicate the communication status between Lab LINK PC and the I O device I O driver will set the value of Communication Tag to 1 if the communication breakdown Comm Tag Prefix has a length limit of 5 or 6 characters depends on the I O driver used The actual communication tag name used will be the prefix with a 2 or 3 digit index number behind it The index number is generated by the driver automatically and always starts with 1 For example if PLC1 PLC2 and PLC3 are the devices defined in an I O driver and the Comm Tag Prefix is MBPLC The actual communication Tag for the devices will be MBPLC001 MBPLCO002 and MBPLCOO3 respectively 10 5 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual If the prefix entered h
143. ic Setting Right click on the Data node and select Basic from the popup menu to open the Data Basic Setting dialog Left side of the dialog is the Data Groups list that shows all existing Data Groups Select a Data Group from the list and the basic setting for that group appears on the right side of the dialog Basic setting of a Data Group includes Data Setting Basic Current Data Groups DataGroup Interval BSEC File Name Pretix Datl_ TT File Type Lab LINK Data File DF a Remark Data Path Default Path Project Proj dat 0 User Defined Path S Mote Flease make sure thatthe specified path exists and has proper privilege setting for Lab LINk to write data during runtime Data Group Name DataGroupl Overwvrite Data After One Month One ear Newer Note Expired cata files will be overvritten Addi Delete Rename D Help Data Group Basic Setting Interval Select the time between two data savings Possible intervals are shown in the table below Bsec i data wera seconde At second 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 of p each minute 6 3 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual At second 0 6 12 18 24 30 36 42 48 54 of each 6sec 1 data per 6 seconds minut 1 data per 5 minute At second 0 of minute 0 5 10 15 55 of each hour 1 data per 6 minute At second 0 of minute 0 6 12 18 54 of each hour File Name Prefix 1 data per 4 minute At s
144. id printer port must be selected in Alarm Basic Setting for the option to be effective Be sure to install appropriate printer driver also Log to History Log messages including alarm acknowledge and reset messages of this alarm to the Alarm History File If this option is not selected messages of this alarm won t be recorded in the history file History File checkbox must be selected in Alarm Basic Setting for this parameter to have effect Trigger Output Set the value of Output Tag to 1 when the alarm occurs This setting is effective only when an Output Tag name is also specified Play TTS Voice When the alarm occurs read the alarm message using TTS Text to Speech Operating system must support TTS of the language used in alarm messages for this setting to be effective Note TTS needs the support of Windows Speech API SAPI Windows XP support SAPI but Windows 2000 Besides Windows XP only support TTS in some 9 20 Chapter 5 Alarm languages Press Delete D button to delete an alarm tag from Alarm Tags list and remove its alarm settings Disable If the checkbox is checked the alarm setting of this alarm tag is disabled and no alarm processing is performed on the tag at runtime The disabled alarm tag will also appear in gray color in the Alarm Tags list Close Press button to end alarm setting and close the dialog Help Press button to open help document related to this topic 5 21 Lab
145. ile and is part of Lab LINK project setting It will be run when the project is started User can use module configuration functions found in Module page of the Project window to add delete and modify a script module As discussed above a Script Module can be considered as a shortcut of a Script File When a Lab LINK project is started the Script File referenced by the Script Module will be loaded and executed Script Files not referenced by Script Module won t be run automatically when the project starts but can still be run like an application using Executer object of SmartPanel The table below further details the relationships between Script Files and Script Modules an Script Module Script File CSL Run Automatically run when Lab LINK Run by Script Module when Lab LINK project starts or by Executer object when 12 1 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Pees starts it is triggered Reference Mus reference a Script File Can be referenced by a Script Module E i of Lab LINK project setting Stored as a file in CSL subfolder of a project Similar to the shortcut of an Source file of an application application Edit When users edit a Script Module it Can be edited using SmartScript editor is actually the Script File it references being edited Add Script Module Right click on the Script node in the Module page of Project window and select Add Script to add a new Script Module a Project Projl _ ox Modules
146. iles in the Data Group are then stored in the month folder according to the month they are created New files will overwrite the old ones that are created on the same month in the previous year C LabLINK4 PROJECT Proj1 dat 01 Dat1_01 xdf Daily file of day 1 in Jan Dat1_02 xdf Daily file of day 2 in Jan Dat1_30 xdf Daily file of day 30 in Jan Dat1_31 xdf Daily file of day 31 in Jan Dat1_01 xmf Monthly file of Jan Dat1_06 xyf Yearly file of 2006 Dati _02 xdf Daily file of day 2 in Feb Dat1_27 xdf Daily file of day 27 in Feb Dat1_28 xdf Daily file of day 28 in Feb Dat1_02 xmf Monthly file of Feb Dat1_06 xyf Yearly file of 2006 C LabLINK4 PROJECT Proj1 dat 02 Dat1_01 xdf Daily file of day 1 in Feb 6 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Never If Never is selected Yearly folder Ex 2006 2007 are created under the folder specified in Data File Path and month folder 01 02 12 are created in each yearly folder Data files in the Data Group are then stored in the month folder according to the month they are created New files will never overwrite any of the old ones because they reside in different folder C LabLINK4 PROJECT Proj1 dat 2005 01 Dat1_01 xdf 2005 1 1 Daily file Dat1_02 xdf 2005 1 2 Daily file Dat1_30 xdf 2005 1 30 Daily file Dat1_31 xdf 2005 1 31 Daily file Dat1_01 xmf 2005 1 Monthly file Dat1_03 xyf 2005 Yearly file C LabLINK4 PROJECT Proj1 dat 2006 01
147. ing MYorkstation yyks 1 Network Tags Disable Tag Name None ACCESS Update Rate Remark Delete ee Network Connection setting To add a new Network Tag left click a tag name from the Tags list and press Add Network Tag 9 7 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual button The selected tag from the server workstation is then added to the Network Tags list of the client workstation If the tag added does not exist in the client workstation a message box will appear and ask user to confirm whether the tag will be created in the client workstation or not Press button to accept the request and the tag will be added into the tag database of the client workstation If button is pressed the tag will not be added into the Network Tags list and the Network Connection Neti setting The Tag added Tag1 already exists in this workstation Are You sure you want to add les Multiple Network Tags can be added in one operation Select multiple tags from the Tags list by clicking each tag while pressing the lt Ctrl gt key on your keyboard Another way to select multiple tags is to select a tag first and then select another tag while press lt Shift gt Key on the keyboard all the tags between the two tags in the list will be selected Selected tags are highlighted in the Tags list Press Add Network Tag button after all needed tags are selected to add them into the connection Neti Setting
148. ion 8 1 Features 8 1 DDE Connection Format 8 1 Add a DDE Connection 8 2 Basic Setting of a DDE Connection 8 2 DDE Connection Setting 8 3 Delete a DDE Connection 8 5 DDE Server Application 8 6 Chapter 9 Network Connection Introduction 9 1 Features 9 1 Architecture 9 1 Basic Setting of ServerWorkstation 9 2 Activate Network Server 9 3 Add a Network Connection 9 4 Basic Setting of Network Connection 9 5 Network Connection Setting 9 7 Delete a Network Connection 9 10 Detecting Disconnection 9 10 Recovery of Network Connection 9 10 Chapter 10 IO Driver Introduction 10 1 Add an IO Driver 10 1 Basic Setting of an IO Driver 10 2 Basic Setting Serial Interface cits cscckanecvecsadawathes iucveadiSduisvendteveaiasamcain hedunadasiawet bands 10 3 Basic Setting Ethernet Interface ccccccccccsssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeesseeeeeeeeeeaaaseeeeeeeenaaas 10 5 Basie SUING O DNON Al eiss a 10 6 Bes Ge HI INC Sass see cenceata a dase mente NEEE A teacnesaeucaiaemenias 10 8 lO Tag Setting 10 11 Reference 10 27 Delete IO Driver 10 29 Delete IO Driver 10 29 Disable IO Driver 10 30 Detection of Communication Problems 10 30 Suspend Communication 10 31 Chapter 11 OPC Connection Introduction 11 1 Features 11 1 OPC Architecture 11 2 Add an OPC Connection 11 3 Add OPC Server 11 4 Add OPC Group 11 6 Add OPC Item sat 8 Delete OPC Item eee ttt Delete OPC Group eseses s sssSssssSssSs i O O Delete OPC Serer O S
149. is compared with the alarm Tag It is further divided into three subtypes X0 X1 and XC XO alarm occurs if the Reference Tag is at the same state when the alarm Tag changes XO alarm occurs if the Reference Tag 5 4 Chapter 5 Alarm is at the same when the alarm Tag changes X1 alarm occurs if the Reference Tag is at the opposite state when the alarm Tag changes XC alarm occurs if the alarm Tag change but the Reference Tag doesn t OQ Event Suitable for digital Tags Any state change of the alarm Tag is recorded as an event There is no reset for an event Expand and Collapse of Alarm Node In Project Window click on before the Alarm node to expand alarm module and show the eight alarm types as nodes in the tree view To coMaps the Alarm node click on before the Alarm node Basic Setting Right click on Alarm node and select Basic from the popup menu to open its Basic Setting dialog Project Proji 4 Disable Alarm _ JOBE Connecton _ OPC Connection Network Connection Script Select Basic Setting The Dialog is used to set alarm logging and printing 9 5 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Alarm Setting Basic Alarm Log Option Alarm Printer je LFT LPT None Single Log Combine active history Alarm Log Path i History File Default Path 6 Histary log Active Alarm Database Path lw Alarm History Database Default Fath 6 Resume xc Cancel Help
150. item name E Channel_1 i Channel f Manual fl System System Filter OPC Iter Resetto Default OPC Item ID CT Name i Datatype Native Datatype Native i Error Check ACCESS Any 7 Flease select an item Refresh Lab LiINk Tag Tag_l Tag name Tag_ i g Tag_3 Remark soe os e nee 11 8 Chapter 11 OPC Connection OPC Item browsing and setting Left of the dialog is used to browse the content of the OPC Server to find the OPC Item needed Right half of the dialog is used to set the details of a selected OPC Item The fields in the dialog are discussed as follows E Browse OPC Server The tree structure of the OPC Server called Name Space is shown in this column Click on before nodes to expand and show the data items under them Click on an item name to select the OPC Item Note Only those items already configured in the OPC Server can be browse and you may need to configure the OPC server before doing this setting Not all OPC server support browsing E Filter When a node is selected from the Name Space its items will be shown in the Please select an item column These Filter fields are used to setup criteria used to filter the data item to be displayed Only items match the specified conditions will be shown Filter criteria include tik Name Enter a string representing part of the item names can be included in the string as wild card character Only OPC Items whose
151. knowledged or reset its value will be set to 0 If this setting is omitted no alarm output action will be performed The tag name set in this field cannot be identical to the Tag name in Halt Tag field Setting of this parameter is effective only when Trigger Output is also set in alarm Action Alm Group mandatory field This parameter specifies the Alarm Group the alarm tag belongs to Alarm Group is a number between 0 65535 and will be used by Alarm WAV Player object to determine which wave file should be played Please refer to SmartPanel Users Manual for detail on the object Delay Time optional field This parameter specify the time in seconds an alarm Tag reach its alarm condition before the system recognize its alarm status and activate the subsequent alarm actions Delay Time is a number between 0 65535 lf Reset Delay option of the alarm tag is also checked delay of the same time will also be applied to alarm reset When the alarm condition is cleared the same amount of time will also be waited before the system reset the alarm 9 39 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Reset Delay optional field This parameter specifies whether the Delay Time setting will be applied to alarm reset If checked alarm will not be reset until the specified delay time elapsed after alarm condition is cleared If this option is not checked an alarm will be reset as soon as its alarm condition is cleared Reset Msg man
152. knowledging this alarm will also reset it Set NEW_ALM Set the value of system tag NEW_ALM to 1 if this alarm occurs Print Message Print messages including alarm acknowledge and reset messages immediately when alarm condition of this alarm changed A valid printer port must be selected in Alarm Basic Setting for the option to be effective Be sure to install appropriate printer driver also Log to History Log messages including alarm acknowledge and reset messages of this alarm to the Alarm History File If this option is not selected messages of this alarm won t be recorded in the history file History File 9 59 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual checkbox must be selected in Alarm Basic Setting for this parameter to have effect Note This is usually the only Action option selected for an event Trigger Output Set the value of Output Tag to 1 when the alarm occurs This setting is effective only when an Output Tag name is also specified Play TTS Voice When the alarm occurs read the alarm message using TTS Text to Speech Operating system must support TTS of the language used in alarm messages for this setting to be effective Note TTS needs the support of Windows Speech API SAPI Windows XP support SAPI but Windows 2000 Besides Windows XP only support TTS in some languages Delete D Press Delete D button to delete an alarm tag from Alarm Tags list and remove its alarm settings
153. kstations needed may be less than the computers involved 3 1 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Settings of different workstation s module are independent except the Tags defined in Network Connections whose real time data will be shared among Server and Client workstations Files in a project can be used by all workstations and are store in the corresponding subfolder under the project folder Basic Setting of Workstation Basic Setting includes some basic information related to a workstation its network identification security file location and project start settings Right click on a workstation to show its popup menu and select Basic Setting a dialog appears There are three pages in the dialog Identification Click on ID Tab to show Identification page This page defines the computer name IP address and an optional remark field of the workstation This information will be used in Network Connection configuration You can ignore this setting for a single machine project Either a computer name or a fixed IP address is mandated when a workstation is defined as a Network Server Up to 4 IP addresses which may be used by different Network Clients can be set for a workstation Please read Network chapter for Network Connection details Workstation Wksl Basic Setting Identification Project Proj1 EEK Modules Mae S S Workstation IP and Computer Name Basic Setting vvks 1 Name WKD1 _ Clear Add Wokstatio
154. l Help Advanced Click on Advanced to show the advanced setting page Clcik on Enable check box and enter a number in the Idle Time field to set the auto logout function During run time this setting will automatically log out users after the specified time expires without any keyboard or mouse operation on the system This setting s to prevent unauthorized operation when a user leave the site but forget to logout from the system 3 4 Chapter 3 Workstation Workstation Wksl Basic Setting Identification Advanced Ante logout Enable Idle time sec Hote System will logout automatically if no keyboardimouse operation is detected during the idle time limit OE Cancel Help Add Workstation Right click on a workstation and select Add Workstation from the popup menu a dialog appear to request for a new workstation name Enter a name and press button a new workstation is created and appear as new node in the project tree Add Workstation Flease Enter Description r Please enter a workstation name Workstation Only one workstation is needed for a single machine project A workstation is needed for each Project Frajl computer ina networked project Existing Workstations W s system will create required subfolders and tiles tor each workstation automatically Mote 1 Workstation name must have less thanbd characters 2 Workstation name cannot contain space or s
155. l also be applied to alarm reset When the alarm condition is cleared the same amount of time will also be waited before the system reset the alarm 9 12 Chapter 5 Alarm Reset Delay optional field This parameter specifies whether the Delay Time setting will be applied to alarm reset If checked alarm will not be reset until the specified delay time elapsed after alarm condition is cleared If this option is not checked an alarm will be reset as soon as its alarm condition is cleared Reset Msg mandatory field This parameter specifies the content of the reset message It is a string with length limit of 80 characters Alarm Msg mandatory field This parameter specifies the message content of the alarm message It is a string with length limit of 80 characters Remark optional field A short description of the alarm tag It s a string used for descriptive purpose only Action optional field These are options specifying what actions will be taken when the alarm occurs Some Actions may need the accompany setting of other fields Log to Database Messages of the alarm will be logged to Active Alarm Database and Alarm History Database If this Action is not selected message of this alarm won t be shown in Alarm Bar and Alarm Log objects in SmartPanel However Annunciator and Group Annunciator objects will still reflect the alarm status of this alarm Reset When Acked Acknowledging this alarm will al
156. l be applied to alarm reset If checked alarm will not be reset until the specified delay time elapsed after alarm condition is cleared If this option is not checked an alarm will be reset as soon as its alarm condition is cleared Reset Msg mandatory field This parameter specifies the content of the reset message It is a string with length limit 5 58 Chapter 5 Alarm of 80 characters 0 Message mandatory field This parameter specifies the message content of the event message when the value of the alarm tag changes from 1 to 0 It is a string with length limit of 80 characters 1 Message mandatory field This parameter specifies the message content of the event message when the value of the alarm tag changes from 0 to 1 It is a string with length limit of 80 characters Remark optional field A short description of the alarm tag It s a string used for descriptive purpose only Action optional field These are options specifying what actions will be taken when the alarm occurs Some Actions may need the accompany setting of other fields Log to Database Messages of the alarm will be logged to Active Alarm Database and Alarm History Database If this Action is not selected message of this alarm won t be shown in Alarm Bar and Alarm Log objects in SmartPanel However Annunciator and Group Annunciator objects will still reflect the alarm status of this alarm Reset When Acked Ac
157. l modifications are made press button to accept the change or press button to discard the change OPC Group content OPC Group Name Group0 O0 Comm Tag Name pepo Update Rate ms SOO Deadband 0 100 0 Fe i Cancel Help 11 13 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Modify OPC Item Setting OPC Connection OPC1 OPC Servern OPC Group OPC Server Serer name Test Testserver 1 location Group name Group0 Test TestServer 1 lt Local gt Lab LINK Tag OPC Item E Groupd Tag Chassal A Manica A Tas i Add OPC Item Delete OPC Item Channel_2 Device_3 Tag_1 OPC Item Channel_2 Device_3 Tag_1 content Modify the setting of an OPC item To modify an OPC item first open the OPC Connection window Click on the OPC Group it belongs to show all of its OPC items on the right Right click on the item to be edited and select OPC Item Content OPC Item dialog will appear to allow editing of the properties of this OPC item You can also double click on the item to open the dialog Lab LINE Tag Name Tag 3 OPC ltem OPC Server OPC Group OPC Item ID hannel_1 Device_1 Tag_3 ltem Datatype Native x Validate Remark a Disable awe Sat Properties that can be edited in OPC Item dialog include OPC Item ID Specify the correct path of the OPC item that is its ID in the OPC server s name space m Item Data type Request which data type should the OPC server convert
158. ld High limit of the alarm tag If the value of the alarm tag is greater than or equal to the limit High Alarm occurs This parameter can either be a constant value or a tag name If a tag name is set the value of that tag at run time is used as high limit Alarm Msg This parameter specifies the message content of the high alarm message It is a string with length limit of 80 characters If no message is defined the field is left blank High Alarm is disabled L mandatory field 5 26 Chapter 5 Alarm Low limit of the alarm tag If the value of the alarm tag is smaller than or equal to the limit Low Alarm occurs This parameter can either be a constant value or a tag name If a tag name is set the value of that tag at run time is used as low limit Alarm Msg This parameter specifies the message content of the low alarm message It is a string with length limit of 80 characters If no message is defined the field is left blank Low Alarm is disabled HH LL Limit HH mandatory field High High limit of the alarm tag If the value of the alarm tag is greater than or equal to the limit High High Alarm occurs This parameter can either be a constant value or a tag name If a tag name is set the value of that tag at run time is used as high high limit Alarm Msg This parameter specifies the message content of the high high alarm message It is a string with length limit of 80 characters If no message is define
159. ll load this file into memory All modification on user setting is made to these setting in the memory instead of the file during Lab LINK runtime The content of the file is only modified when the user settings are saved to file by Security Editor The default location of Security Setting File is in Lab LINK system folder and its name is scrman xdb However it is possible to specify where the file should be loaded from by modifying the Basic Setting of Workstation Please refer to chapter 3 of this manual for details 13 10 Chapter 13 Security Workstation Wks1 Basic Setting entfcation Security Security setting File Use Default Path Remark This defaultis recommended for most users 2 security Editor can not edit the default security setting file w User Defined Path Aproject projt datscrmanxdb Remark ar 1 Use this setting when multiple workstations use the same security file lease make sure the specified path is accessible during runtime 3 security Editor can not edit the default security setting file 4 The edit default security file should be copied to the user defined path Cancel Help lf Security Editor is executed when no Lab LINK project is run the security settings it modifies and saves is always the copy in the system folder Developer can modify the default Security Setting File and copy it to the project folder for the use of that project in a real application The Security Edi
160. lue Value Message Retain value Remark o Acidi Delete D Rename B Help Module List Tag is used by these modules PO Driver Devicel Mote lfrename tt all setting related to this tag in the modules above will also be changed Note When a Tag is renamed only the setting related to the Tag in currently editing workstation will be deleted If other workstation also uses this Tag you may need to do the renaming in that workstation separately Tag settings in panel file are also not affected by the renaming mode here If needed you should modify object setting in each panel file by yourself Tag Basic Setting Right click on Tag node and select Basic from the popup menu a dialog appears You can define where the retained Tag value is stored in the dialog Selecting Default Path indicates that you want to use the system default location for the retained value file If User Defined is selected you should enter a path in the field below which will be used to store the retained Tag value 4 7 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Project Projl Tag Basic 5etting Tagkeep Runtime retained Tag data path Default Project Proj idat Tagkeep ks1 dat 4 10 Driver 4 DDE Connection User Defined J OPC Connection Ca J Network Connection Script 7 Cancel Tag Admin XS Click on the Tag Admin button fap Se on the toolbar the Tag Administration window will appear
161. m the actual tag data change of the running project In other word the display data will remain unchanged even when the actual tag has changed 14 5 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual TagView A Name Tag Status a TAG Name P ERROR USER 4LARM TagView 9 Name Tag Status ERROR USER ALARM Input Output QO Unknown Uncertain Fault OffLine OnLine 4LM_PRI Input Output SIDLE OUnknown Uncertain Fault rg OffLine OnLine RUN SK EXIT MA Date LOGOUT Date Time DISK Data Data Tag2 1 Tag Value Tag4 Message Test Taq5 i i ALM_PRI IDLE BLINK TIME RUN EXIT LOGOUT DISK 1 Tag2 Tag3 Tag4 Tad Date time Date time Value Message Test Isolation operation The need of isolation is based on the reason Since data displayed in Tag View will be updated whenever tag data change it may changes very quickly in some case This may cause trouble when user trying to modify the data because the data will be changed again before the editing is finished By pressing the Isolation button the displayed data will be separated from the tag database and thus stop it from being updated to allow editing Select any tag name from the Tag List will cancel the isolation setting and the displayed tag data will start updating as tag data change Fix Tag View Window on Top u TagView 4 TAG
162. meter to have effect Trigger Output Set the value of Output Tag to 1 when the alarm occurs This setting is effective only when an Output Tag name is also specified Play TTS Voice When the alarm occurs read the alarm message using TTS 5 34 Chapter 5 Alarm Text to Speech Operating system must support TTS of the language used in alarm messages for this setting to be effective Note TTS needs the support of Windows Speech API SAPI Windows XP support SAPI but Windows 2000 Besides Windows XP only support TTS in some languages Press Delete D button to delete an alarm tag from Alarm Tags list and remove its alarm settings CO Disable If the checkbox is checked the alarm setting of this alarm tag is disabled and no alarm processing is performed on the tag at runtime The disabled alarm tag will also appear in gray color in the Alarm Tags list Press button to end alarm setting and close the dialog Help Press button to open help document related to this topic 9 35 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Deviation Alarm Setting Suitable for analog tags A base value and a deviation value are set in this type of alarm High alarm occurs if the alarm tag value is greater than the Base value and the difference is more than or equal to Deviation value Low alarm occurs if the alarm tag value is smaller than the Base value and the difference is more than or equal to Deviation value Alarm Setting
163. n IP Address 4 p 192 168 pE Clear Copy VWorkstation vvks 1 ond TP Delete Workstaton vks 1 Rename lear Erle Clear EPET EET Ath IP lear J Network Connection a script Femark 3 2 Chapter 3 Workstation Security Click on Security page to define the location of Security Setting file Security Setting file contains Lab LINK user database which define the user name password and privilege The information is used for authentication when users are operating Lab LINK runtime system Default Security Setting path is at Lab LINK system folder C LabLINK System4 for a typical installation and its file name is ScrMan xdb By selecting User Defined Path and enter a different path in this dialog Lab LINK runtime system fill try to find the Security Setting file in the user specified location at runtime Lab LINK project maintenance staff is responsible of placing the Security File at the specified location to guarantee Please refer to Security chapter for security details Workstation Wksl Basic Setting Identification Security Setting File w Use Default Path Remark 1 This default is recommended for most users 2 security Editor can not edit the default security setting file User Defined Fath Femark tees l Use this setting when multiple workstations use the same security file 2 Flease make sure the specified path is accessible during runtime 3 Security
164. n contain multiple Please select a script script modules several workstation can have script modules referencing the same script file Whe a workstation start it will run all the script module defined Contain Reference to an existing script If Reference to an existing script is selected the new script module will reference to an existed script file No new script file will be created in this case The referenced script should already exist in the CSL subfolder of the project It can be created by a script module or as a file in the File page of Project window 12 3 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Add SmartScript Please Enter script Name Csl001 Create a new script Reference to an existing script Project Frojl Please selecta script Description Please enter a script name The script module will be run with the Lab LINE project to perform user programmed dunctions A project can contain multiple script modules several workstation can have script modules referencing the same script file whe a workstation start itwill run mee ee When two script module reference to the same script file any change to the script source of a module will affect the other module This has the advantage that only a source script needs to be maintained Edit Script Double click on a script module or right click on it and select Edit Script from its popup menu to open the script file it ref
165. n then be restored and the system will determine whether the alarm 5 57 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual should be reset or not Output Tag optional field This parameter specifies a tag name If the alarm occurs the value of Output Tag will be set to 1 When the alarm is acknowledged or reset its value will be set to 0 If this setting is omitted no alarm output action will be performed The tag name set in this field cannot be identical to the Tag name in Halt Tag field Setting of this parameter is effective only when Trigger Output is also set in alarm Action Alm Group mandatory field This parameter specifies the Alarm Group the alarm tag belongs to Alarm Group is a number between 0 65535 and will be used by Alarm WAV Player object to determine which wave file should be played Please refer to SmartPanel Users Manual for detail on the object Delay Time optional field This parameter specify the time in seconds an alarm Tag reach its alarm condition before the system recognize its alarm status and activate the subsequent alarm actions Delay Time is a number between 0 65535 If Reset Delay option of the alarm tag is also checked delay of the same time will also be applied to alarm reset When the alarm condition is cleared the same amount of time will also be waited before the system reset the alarm Reset Delay optional field This parameter specifies whether the Delay Time setting wil
166. name match the specified pattern will be shown For example Tag N can be used for those item names whose first three characters are Tag and the last character is N while there can be one or more characters in between Data type Show items of the specified data type Access Show items that allow the specified access right Press Reset to Default to clear all filter criteria m Please select an item All OPC item of the selected node in the Name Space tree and match the filter criteria is display in this column If Filter setting has been changed please press button to refresh the listing in this column and reflect the change Select an item from the column to edit its setting The OPC Item ID of the selected item will appear in the field on the right m OPC Item Specified the OPC Item to be added into the OPC Connection and setup its properties OPC Item setting include OPC Item ID Specify the OPC Item ID to be added Select an item from the Please select an item column will copy its ID here You can also enter the ID manually Data type Specified which data type the OPC server should convert the item to before Lab LINK for Windows User Manual sending it to Lab LINK Note Not all OPC servers support data type conversion If not supported Native should be used Error Check Press this button to request validation of the OPC Item ID definition by the OPC Server Note Not all OPC servers sup
167. nd The alarm is reset only after the tag value is within alarm limit and also out of the dead band Without this setting if the tag value oscillating at the edge of the alarm limit will cause the alarm to occur and reset frequently Either a constant value or a Tag name can be set to this parameter If a tag name is set the value of that tag at run time will be used as the deadband value and thus can be changed by operators using a SmartPanel object Halt Tag optional field This parameter specifies a tag name If the tag is set to 1 processing of the alarm tag will be halted Neither the occurrence nor the reset of alarm will be detected If this setting is omitted the alarm tag is always effective 5 38 Chapter 5 Alarm The tag name set in this field cannot be identical to the Tag name in Output Tag field When the value of the Halt Tag is set to 1 system will Suspend all alarm functions of the alarm Tag including alarming acknowledgement and reset Therefore if the Halt Tag is set to 1 after the occurrence of an alarm the alarm will remain even when its alarm condition is cleared Only after the Halt Tag is set to 0 alarm processing of this alarm tag can then be restored and the system will determine whether the alarm should be reset or not Output Tag optional field This parameter specifies a tag name If the alarm occurs the value of Output Tag will be set to 1 When the alarm is ac
168. nd reset of an analog alarm whose value is close to the alarm limit As shown in the figure below the shaded area within alarm limits are the dead bands 5 16 Chapter 5 Alarm Temperature C aS High Limit80 ee ee Ee ee oo 6 70 ES OH eee Coc Deadband 10 Tag value curve 30 FF SE se oo os ss ss Ue WOH OH H H M H H H H H H OH O H E H O O O O eee ee ee H H H A H H H O Low Limit20 brai E OA A M E I H E H HE HE ON HE E H E HE E AA J H E ot Deadband 10 i i 2 1 31 4 w e7 N Alarm status of the Tag with dead band i moso Roms s 70 Teg gt 20 Normal ese e ats Ta6 20 low Above low imit but sil viinin deadbard If a Deadband is set the alarm will not reset although alarm tag value is within alarm limit but still inside the dead band The alarm is reset only after the tag value is within alarm limit and also out of the dead band Without this setting if the tag value oscillating at the edge of the alarm limit will cause the alarm to occur and reset frequently Besides a constant value a Tag name can also be set in this parameter Either a constant value or a Tag name can be set to this parameter If a tag name is set the value of that tag at run time will be used as the deadband value and thus can be changed by operators using a SmartPanel object Halt Tag optional field This parameter specifies a tag name If the tag is set to 1 processing of the alarm tag will be halted Neither the occurren
169. ned or unsigned It is ignored if non integer data type is selected Please use the drop down list to select an appropriate item Unsigned U Convert the data into an unsigned integer Signed S Convert the data into an signed integer Access Access Poad Write RW hd This parameter is used to limit access to the tag data during runtime In general I O driver is capable of two operations to an I O Read and Write When running I O driver will keep on reading I O to get real time data When tag values is changed in Lab LINK Ex By user operation I O driver will write the changed data back to its corresponding I O address in the I O device In some application it is possible that the Read Write access to the I O need to be limited Use the drop down list to select Access limit applied to the I O tag Read Write RW The I O address can be read and written Read only RO The I O address will only be read No writing is allowed Write only WO I O Driver will only write data to the I O address when tag value is changed No reading will be performed Force only FO The I O driver will read and write the I O device However the read data won t be send to tag but only used to compare with tag data If the I O data is different from the tag data the Driver will keep writing tag data back to the I O address until their values are identical Read once Write R1W The I O is only read once when the driver starts The I O will
170. ng the operation will succeed On the other hand if Password style is set for the object the system will always ask for password authentication no matter current user has enough privilege When password authentication is required at runtime the message box shown below will appear to request for password entry User should enter his or her password and press the button or the lt Enter gt key on the keyboard Any password authentication process is considered as Login of the user If there is no keyboard installed on the computer users can click on the B button next to the password field to enable a screen keyboard for entering password Password Required This operation must be authenticated by the system Please enter your password Password kal The system will retain the user s identification after the authentication and use it for future user privilege checking until the user logout or a new user login There are two way to logout current user The first method is to press button without entering any password in the password authentication dialog The other method is to use a System Tag LOGOUT Whenever the value of LOGOUT is set to 1 the current user will be logout This can be easily accomplished using a Button object with Reset Button style set or a Set Button object Automatic Logout Besides using objects setting to allow user logout operation an idle time limit can be defined to implement automatic logout This is
171. ng Lab LINK workstations Please see Network chapter for details IO Driver I O Drivers are used to connect PLC controller or any other I O devices supported by Lab LIMK Define communication parameters IO and I O address mapping between Tags and I O points and the I O Driver will communicate with the devices to access real time data at runtime Please see I O Driver chapter for details OPC Connection OPC Connection is used to integrate OPC Server provided by hardware venders or third party with Lab LINK Through OPC connection Lab LINK will be able to communication with the I O devices it doesn t support Please see OPC Connection chapter for details Script SmartScript is the built in script language of Lab LINK Script can be run with Lab LINK project to provide user specific functions such as control logic or complex mathematic calculation Please read Script chapter and SmartScript Reference Manual for details Project Files and Folders A folder named Project is created under Lab LINK folder after installation The path should be C LabLINK Project in a typical installation Every time you create a project in PAM a project folder with the same name will be created under this system project folder For example a project named Proj1 should create a project folder with path C LabLINK Project Proj1 Files and folders will also be created for a project For a project named Proj1 with
172. nge of alarm tag is expected If the Reference Tag doesn t change with the alarm tag after this amount of time Timeout alarm occurs This parameter is in unit of second Action optional field These are options specifying what actions will be taken when the alarm occurs Some Actions may need the accompany setting of other fields Log to Database Messages of the alarm will be logged to Active Alarm Database and Alarm History Database If this Action is not selected message of this alarm won t be shown in Alarm Bar and Alarm Log objects in SmartPanel However Annunciator and Group Annunciator objects will still reflect the alarm status of this alarm Reset When Acked Acknowledging this alarm will also reset it Note This Action should always be selected for Timeout Alarm Set NEW_ALM Set the value of system tag NEW_ALM to 1 if this alarm occurs Print Message Print messages including alarm acknowledge and reset messages immediately when alarm condition of this alarm changed A valid printer port must be selected in Alarm Basic Setting for the option to be effective Be sure to install appropriate printer driver also Log to History Log messages including alarm acknowledge and reset messages of this alarm to the Alarm History File If this option is not selected messages of this alarm won t be recorded in the history file History File checkbox must be selected in Alarm Basic Setting for this parameter to have
173. not be found in the list just choose a similar one Note Type selection in some I O drivers does affect its communication Please refer to documents of specific drivers for details Station Specify station number of the device in its communication network Most communication protocols define a station number to be used by devices to identify themselves when multiple devices are installed in the same communication network ex RS 485 422 Every device on the network must have unique station number to guarantee correct 10 9 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Communication Comm Tag Name Display the Communication Tag name of the device The name is generated by combining the Comm Tag Prefix in Basic setting and an index number See previous section for Comm Tag Prefix discussion Remark A short text string to describe the device Delete a Device Select a device from the Existing Devices list and press button to delete it A message box will appear to request for confirmation Press button to confirm the deletion or press button to cancel the operation MODBM Basic Setting A If you realy want to delete the Device please adjust module and Tag setting related to its Comm Tag MBUS 001 accordingly cook _ Confirm device deletion message box When a device is deleted all IO Tag settings belong to the device will also be deleted Comm Tag will not be automatically deleted However since Comm Tags are
174. nt edition It is a tool program to view and modify real time data in Lab LINK runtime It is usually used to test and debug a Lab LINK project at runtime Features J Display all real time tag data of a running Lab LINK project Tag data can be shown include name date time value message and state J Modify all real time tag data of a running Lab LINK project Tag data can be modified include name date time value message and state J Provide easy to use user interface for run time testing and debugging including sorting of tags and isolation of tag data Run Tag View There are two way to run TagView It can be run by pressing button on the tool bar or selecting Tag View from the Tool menu in PAM Tag View can also be run in Windows by selecting Start All Program Lab LINK 4 for Windows Tag View shortcut When Tag View is run password authentication dialog will appear to request for authentication A password with privilege higher than or equal to 200 is needed to run the tool 14 1 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Authentication This operation must be authenticated by the system Please enter your name and password Password authentication of Tag View TagView Window The windows as shown below will appear when Tag View is run The window can be divided to the areas O Tag List List all the tag names in the running Lab LINK project J Tag Data Display the data of the selected tag o button
175. o open help document related to this topic 5 29 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Rate of Change Alarm Setting Suitable for analog Tags The alarm occurs when the rate of change of the alarm tag value is greater than a specified limit Alarm Setting Rate of Change Alarm R l Disable Tas NameA Mame New Alarm Halt Tag E Priority E Guput Tag jt Deadband f Alm Group oO oOo Delay Time0 sec Resetdelay Reset Msg Normal Oo E Fate of Change Limit Alarm Meg Alarm l Remark BE m Actoin Low to Database Print Message I Reset When Acked IY Log to History BE M Set NEW ALM Trigger Output Play TTS Voice DeleteD Add Alarm Zg 4 oua L Close Help Tags Add Tags list shows all the Tags in Tag database Click on the check box System Tag to show system Tags in the list if one of system Tags needs to be used as a digital alarm You can also add a new Tag by pressing button on top of the Tags list Alarm Tags Select a Tag and press Add Alarm button to add it as a digital alarm Tag The Tag will appear in the Alarm Tags list 5 30 Chapter 5 Alarm Alarm Setting Name mandatory field This parameter defines the name of the alarm Tag when it appears in the alarm message The limit on the length is 80 characters A string enclosed in a pair of square brackets can a
176. o refresh display 2 13 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Run Lab LINK for Windows PAM Proje Project Viewty TSE ToolfT Help C co Generate C Mew Open Run project s a Generate After the configuration of a project you should conduct Generate on the project to create the configuration files needed by Lab LINK runtime system Select Generate from Run menu to generate the project Generate Project Frojl Generate Modules Changed Only All fj Workstation basic setting Panel m Tag Init Value TaglInit m Tag Retain Value TagInit Alarm Alarm Data Filter Report Report IO Driver Driver DDE Server DDEServer DDE Client DDEClient Network Server TCPIPServer a Cancel Help Only module changed since last generation will be regenerate to speed up the process However you can select the module you want to regenerate disregard whether it is changed or not by click on the checkbox of that module All checked module will be regenerated After the selection press to start the generation Select All and press OK will cause all modules are checked and regenerated 2 14 Chapter 2 PAM Generation Project Projl Generating Workstation wks 1 Generation item Workstation basic setting Panel Generation tem Tag Init alue T aq nit Generation item Tag Retain Value Taq nit Generation tem Alarm Alarm Generation item Data Filtery Generation tem Report Report
177. one workstation named Wks1 the project files and folders under its project folders include Folder File Description Referenc e Path O Project 2 21 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual E fm Frojl LH cfg Sa Wks pal bmp wmf Wray a LabL INE pjt bak a Whksl pam a Wks 1 pam bak Wks Panel Runtime configuration files of workstation Wks1 These files are created when the project is generated by PAM Panel files BMP files used by panel objects 2 WMF files used by panel objects ar Wav files used by panel objects 4 Text files used by panel objects eD Default Data files storage 6 SmartScript files Project basic information Backup of Lab LINK pjt before it is modified by PAM Workstation configuration of Wks1 Backup of Wks1 pam before it is modified by PAM Runtime shortcut for workstation Wks1 at Reference Path is the shorthand notation for the frequently used path in Lab LINK project It is strongly recommended that they are used whenever it s possible during panel object configuration Please read Appendix for Reference Path details File Page in Project Window Click on File tab in Project Window to show this page A tree view shows the sub folders and files under the project folder Project subfolders discussed in previous section are represented as nodes in the tree view Click on to expand a node and click on E to collapse it 2 22 Chapte
178. onvert its data into a double precision floating number but with the high low words swapped Q Swapped 8 Digits BCD k Taking two words of consecutive addresses 10 18 Chapter 10 IO Drivers starting with the specified address and convert its data into a 8 digit integer using BCD coding but with the high low words swapped Q Swapped 12 Digits BCD v Taking three words of consecutive addresses Starting with the specified address and convert its data into a 12 digit integer using BCD coding but with the high low words swapped 0 Swapped 16 Digits BCD n Taking four words of consecutive addresses Starting with the specified address and convert its data into a 16 digit integer using BCD coding but with the high low words swapped U 2 bit J Take the lowest two bits of the specified word and convert its value into an integer using binary coding Q 3 bit K Take the lowest three bits of the specified word and convert its value into an integer using binary coding Q 4 bit Nibble y Take the lowest four bits of the specified word and convert its value into an integer using binary coding Q 2 ASCII A Convert the word into a two character string using ASCII coding The data will be sent to the Message field of the tag Q 4 ASCII B Take 2 words of consecutive address starting with the specified address and convert its value into a 4 character string using ASCII coding The data will be sent to the Message field of the tag Q 6 ASCII C
179. opup menu a message appears to request confirmation for deleting the selected tag Press OK to confirm and delete the tag or press Cancel to cancel the operation Delete tag YQ Are you sure to delete tag Tag4 If the tag to be deleted has been defined or referenced in any of the module of the workstation the delete operation will cause the Module List window to appear The windows will show which modules have used this tag and request the confirmation to delete the tag 4 9 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Module List This tag Tag4 is referenced by the following modules Alarm Disital Alarm Note Continue with deleting will delete tag in all modules OE gt to continue with deleting If OK button is pressed any setting related to the tag in each of the shown modules will all be deleted Please note that the removal of module definition of the deleted tag is restricted to the selected workstation only Any reference to this tag in other workstation will not be affected by this operation O Rename Select the tag to be renamed from the tag list Right click on it and select Rename from the popup menu The selected tag will be high lighted and an editing cursor will appear on it to allow editing of its name using the keyboard After a new name is entered press lt Enter gt key on the keyboard to complete the operation Tag administration Workstation Z Wks 4 10 Chapter 4 Tag Tag Ta
180. or queries For example the message for an alarm Tags with Name Electrical System Area A Power panel VCB 1 and alarm message operation failed may display its alarm message as 2006 01 01 12 00 00 Electrical System Area A Power panel VCB 1 operation failed LogView will have two levels of categories for queries User can search for alarm records with major categories of Electrical System and minor category of Area A Type mandatory field This parameter specifies sub type of digital alarm T0 Alarm occurs when the value of the Reference Tag is still the same as the value of the alarm tag after timeout 11 Alarm occurs when the value of the Reference Tag is still different from the 5 44 Chapter 5 Alarm value of the alarm tag after timeout Priority mandatory field When more than one alarm occurs at the same time Priority is used to determine which alarm will be handled first Priority should be between 1 255 with the higher value representing higher priority A system tag ALM_PRI is used to show the highest Priority value in all active unacknowledged alarms Halt Tag optional field This parameter specifies a tag name If the tag is set to 1 processing of the alarm tag will be halted Neither the occurrence nor the reset of alarm will be detected If this setting is omitted the alarm tag is always effective The tag name set in this field cannot be identical to the
181. oup belongs to Ex Wks1 DATA Wks1 is the workstation name and DATA is the data group name Data Path Path of the data files Please set the path based on the setting in source Data Group 7 4 Chapter 7 Report Note If the data files are generated by a remote workstation the path defined here should be defined from the view of the workstation running the report at runtime The path is usually a network path on the source workstation Default Data Path Use the path defined in the Source Data Group s Basic Setting If the source Data Group is from the local workstation the workstation running the report this is usually the case User Defined Path Use the path specified below as data file path If a source Data Group from a remote workstation is used it is not the workstation running the report it is highly possible this option should be used Since the default data path is set from the point of view of the workstation storing data instead of the workstation running the report the report workstation might not be able to locate the data files according to default path Report Title1 Report Title 2 Define the two lines of texts to be shown above the report The titles have the length limit of 80 characters Interval Specify how many consecutive records in the data file will be combined as a data record in the report Since data are usually recorded in a shorter interval Ex 1 minute but report usually only ne
182. own on the right a Init Value Select this item to set the initial value and or message of the Tag when Lab LINK runtime is started Value The assigned to the Tag when Lab LINK runtime system starts Message The text message assigned to the Tag when Lab LINK runtime system starts If no Init Value is set for the tag its value will be O and its message will be blank when runtime system starts a Retain Value Selecting this item means Tag value should be retained When Lab LINK runtime system ends value of the Tag will be saved Next time Lab LINK is started the saved value will be assigned to the Tag as its initial value a Remark A short text string can be entered into this field and used as the description of the Tag 4 3 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Note Init Value and Retain Value cannot be selected at the same time system Tag Besides user Tags there are some Tags created automatically by the system These Tags are called System Tag All System Tag names start with Name and application of the System Tags are described as follows O DISK Its value shows the remaining space in the hard disk in M Bytes O EXIT When its value is set to 1 Lab LINK runtime system will end It is usually assigned to a Button object in SmartPanel and used to end the runtime system when a user presses the button O 6 TIME Its value increase by 1 every second O USER Its value is the
183. ows User Manual number between 0 65535 and will be used by Alarm WAV Player object to determine which wave file should be played Please refer to SmartPanel Users Manual for detail on the object Delay Time optional field This parameter specify the time in seconds an alarm Tag reach its alarm condition before the system recognize its alarm status and activate the subsequent alarm actions Delay Time is a number between 0 65535 If Reset Delay option of the alarm tag is also checked delay of the same time will also be applied to alarm reset When the alarm condition is cleared the same amount of time will also be waited before the system reset the alarm Reset Delay optional field This parameter specifies whether the Delay Time setting will be applied to alarm reset If checked alarm will not be reset until the specified delay time elapsed after alarm condition is cleared If this option is not checked an alarm will be reset as soon as its alarm condition is cleared Reset Msg mandatory field This parameter specifies the content of the reset message It is a string with length limit of 80 characters 0 Alarm Msg mandatory field This parameter specifies the message content of the alarm message when the alarm occurs and the value of the alarm tag is 0 It is a string with length limit of 80 characters 1 Alarm Msg mandatory field This parameter specifies the message content of the alarm message wh
184. pecial characters I Cancel Help 3 5 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Copy Workstation J ODE Connection J OPE Connection J Network Connection Project Proji Sees Right click on a workstation and select Copy Workstation from the popup menu a dialog appear to request for a new workstation name Enter a name and press button a new workstation with exact the same setting as the original workstation is created and appear as a new node in the project tree Copy Workstation Please Enter Workstation Wks Froject Frojl Existing Workstations wiks Delete Workstation Description Please enter a workstation name Only one workstation is needed fora single machine project A workstation is needed for each computer in a networked project system will create required subfolders and files for each workstation automatically Mote 1 Workstation name must have less thanb4 characters 2 Workstation name cannot contain space or special characters Right click on a workstation and select Delete Workstation from the popup menu a message box appear to request for confirmation of this operation Press button to delete the workstation or press button to cancel the operation 3 6 Chapter 3 Workstation Project Proji Workstation Delete Basic Setting Wks Add Wokstation Delete Workstation Wks Rename Rename Right click on a workstation and
185. port data type conversion Lab LINK Tag Generation Specify how to generate the Lab LINK tag name which mapped to the selected OPC Item There are two options Automatic use OP item name Click on the option to let system generate tag name automatically by using the last part of the OPC Item ID as the tag name Note This option may not be available if the last par of ID exceeds the length limit of Lab LINK tag name Manual Click the option and specify the Lab LINK tag name manually m Lab LINK Tag Specify the Lab LINK tag name connected to the OPC Item The name will be generated automatically if Automatic is selected m Remark A short text string to describe the OPC item After setting of the new OPC item is finished press button to add it to the connection If the specified Lab LINK tag mapped to the item doesn t exist in current project a message box will appear to request confirmation on the creation of the new tag Press button to confirm the adding or press button to cancel the operation Lab LINK Tag not exist The Lab LINK Tag Tag_1 doesn t exist Do you want to create a new Tag of this name cae After all the items needed are added press button to close the dialog and return to OPC Connection window Note The same tag cannot be mapped to more than on OPC Item 11 10 Chapter 11 OPC Connection Delete OPC Item OPC Connection OPC1 OFC serverfOPl Group OPC server server name Tes
186. ppear in the beginning of Name and a T character can be used in the category string to separate main category and sub category The strings will be used by the add on LogView alarm report module as categories for queries For example the message for an alarm Tags with Name Area A Reactor Temperature and alarm message change too fast may display its alarm message as 2006 01 01 12 00 00 Area A Reactor Temperature change too fast LogView will have two levels of categories for queries User can search for alarm records with major categories of Area A and minor category of Reactor Priority mandatory field When more than one alarm occurs at the same time Priority is used to determine which alarm will be handled first Priority should be between 1 255 with the higher value representing higher priority A system tag ALM_PRI is used to show the highest Priority value in all active unacknowledged alarms Deadband optional field This parameter specifies a dead band range Dead band is designed to avoid the annoyance of frequent alarm and reset of an analog alarm whose value change rate is close to the alarm limit As shown in the figure below the shaded area within alarm limits are the dead bands Alarm resets only after its change rate is below the deadband 5 31 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Rate of Change Limit 10 Deadband 5 Halt Tag optional field This parameter specifies a
187. privilege of current logged in user and its message is his or her user name O ALARM Its value is the number of active alarms and its message is the latest alarm message O ALM_PRI Its value is the highest Priority value of unacknowledged active alarms OQ NEW_ALM Whenever a new alarm occurs its value is set to 1 O LOGOUT When its value is set to 1 current user will be logged out O RUN During the execution of Lab LINK runtime its value will be set to 1 Its value will be set to 0 when the Lab LINK runtime system ends These System Tags are related to Alarm module Add Tag 4 4 Chapter 4 Tag Tag Manager Tag Name Tag Tagi Acidi Delete D Rename B Close Help Add Tag dialog Press button in the Tag Manager dialog to add a new Tag A small dialog will appear to request for a new Tag name Enter a name following Tag naming rule and press button A new Tag is created for the workstation You can then set continue to do the further setting on the Tag Delete Tag Select a Tag from the Tags list and press button If the Tag is already used by other modules a message box showing which modules are using it appears to request for confirmation on the deletion Press button to delete the Tag and settings related to the Tag in all the modules will also be deleted Otherwise press button to cancel the operation If the Tag is not used by any module it will be deleted imm
188. privilege of the current login user with the setting of the control object The privilege of the user must be greater than or equal to the preset minimum privilege of the object to conduct the operation successfully With this security authentication mechanism the developer of Lab LINK project can effectively control who can conduct certain operations and who cannot Security Editor is the tool used to manage the runtime users of Lab LINK It can be used to create account for each user edit their user name and assign their password and privilege Login and Logout There is no mandatory login process when a Lab LINK project starts User authentication requirement can be easily configured into control objects in panels There are two settings in control object properties that are related to user authentication Privilege in basic setting and Password in Style setting Privilege specifies the minimum privilege the user need to have to operate the object Password mandated that a password authentication is required each time the object is operated At Lab LINK runtime when a control object with non zero privilege set is operated the system will request password authentication if no previous authentication has been done or the current login user has smaller privilege than the setting it is considered that no user has login If the current 13 1 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual login user has greater or equal privilege as the setti
189. processing is performed on the tag at runtime The disabled alarm tag will also appear in gray color in the Alarm Tags list Press button to end alarm setting and close the dialog Help Press button to open help document related to this topic 5 14 Chapter 5 Alarm High Low Alarm Setting Suitable for analog Tags A high limit and a low limit can be set in this alarm High alarm occurs when the value of alarm tag is grater than or equal to high limit and Low alarm occurs when the alarm tag value is smaller than or equal to the low limit Alarm Setting Hi h Low Alarm i Disable m Tar Name Ad Tag Name Re DI Name New Alarm Halt Tag X Priority fi ba Output Tag v Deadband Alm Group i Delay Time 0 Sec Reset delay Reset Msg Nor mal High Low Limits High Alarm Misg High alarm Low Alarm Meg Low alarm Remark Action Log to Database Print Message Reset When Acked Log to History System Tags M Set SNEW_ALM Trigger Output Play TTS Voice Delete D Add Alarm see 4 oua Sa m Tags Add Tags list shows all the Tags in Tag database Click on the check box System Tag to show system Tags in the list if one of system Tags needs to be used as a digital alarm You can also add a new Tag by pressing button on top of the Tags list Alarm Tags Select
190. r 2 PAM Project Proji kB a we Modules File Operation Add Right click on a subfolder node to show its popup menu Select Add File to add a new file of that type A dialog will appear to request for a file name Enter file name and press button The new file will be created and the associated application that can edit that file will be run For example right click on Pnl Panel File node select Add Panel File and enter a panel file name will run Panel Editor to edit the newly created file m MOORIE EE o Oem Project Proji Sees Ey aaa Modules Files Adar a CES Ny 110 58 a 2 tie sO 2 ORR B S Import Right click on a subfolder node to show its popup menu Select Import File to copy an existing file to the folder in current project A dialog will appear to let you select an existing file Press button after a file is selected The file will be copy to the project 2 23 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Project Proji Seles Modules Import File PNL Source File c LabLINK Project proj1 pnl DB_ON PNL Content c Test v l Target File Name DB_ON Cancel Help Delete Right click on a file name to show its popup menu and select Delete to delete the file A confirm message box will appear Press button to confirm the deletion or press button to cancel the operation Project Proji Sale
191. r means but it will be set to 1 again if another new alarm occurs Whether an alarm will trigger the setting of NEW_ALM depends on its Action setting Set NEW_ALM must be selected in an alarm s Action setting for it to set this tag to 1 When an Alarm Wav Player object is used to play a sound file when a new alarm occurs NEW_ALM is recommended to be used as the Control tag of this object The sound file will be played when a new alarm occurs and can be turned off by an operator by setting this tag back to 0 Chapter6 Data Introduction Data module is used to record data at specific intervals in a Lab LINK system Tags can be grouped into Data Groups and stored at different intervals to different data files Up to 64 Data Groups can be created and there is no limit on the number of Tags that can be stored in a Data group Data can either be stored in Lab LINK format XXF and presented using a trend object or Lab LINK report or saved as standard text files TXT and used by other application such as spreadsheets or data base Data module receives real time tag data from Tag Manager perform aggregation and calculation at specified intervals and save the data to files with format specified Features 1 Both I O tag and non I O tag data can be stored User defined data storage intervals O Tags can be stored using different intervals and save to different files 1 Change data file on a daily basi
192. rNet Interface EtherNet G H y k Please Enter IO Driver Name User defined no blank or special character allowed Cancel Help Select an I O Driver Since Lab LINK 4 0 provide a new dialog to configure I O Driver Lab LINK users who are used to the old style version 3 x I O configuration dialog and wish to continue using it unselect the check box List New IO Drivers Only to list the old drivers Those I O drivers not marked with version number 4 0 will use the old I O configuration dialog Select an I O device type from left of the dialog and the I O Drivers of that type will be listed in the I O Drivers list on the right Selecting All will list all I O drivers supported by Lab LINK disregard its type Select the I O driver you want to use from the I O Drivers list and specify a name in the I O Driver Name field The limit on the length of the name is 8 characters No space or special character allowed Press button to open Basic Setting dialog of the I O driver see next section for detail After the configuration of the basic setting a new I O driver is created and appears in the Project window under the I O Driver node Press button to cancel the addition of a new I O driver Basic Setting of an I O Driver Right click on an I O driver in the Project window and select Basic Setting from its popup menu to open Basic Setting dialog This dialog is used to configure communication parameters used by the driver 10
193. rm occurs when Tag value is 1 and DO alarm occurs when Tag value is 0 Alarm Setting Digital Ala Disable Tarz Name D1 New Alarm Halt Tag wf Type jlAlamD1 Cutput Taz l Priority E Alm Group booo Delay Time 0 mec 7 Reset delay Reset Msg Normal Alarm Msg Alarm Femark Acton v Log to Database Print Message Reset When Acked lw Log to History System Tags Jv Set ENEW ALM Trigger Gutput Play TTS Voice ES Do _Beletet Le Tags Add Tags list shows all the Tags in Tag database Click on the check box System Tag to show system Tags in the list if one of system Tags needs to be used as a digital alarm You can also add a new Tag by pressing button on top of the Tags list Alarm Tags Select a Tag and press Add Alarm button to add it as a digital alarm Tag The Tag will appear in the Alarm Tags list Select a Tag in the Alarm Tags list and its alarm setting appears on the right half of the dialog 9 10 Chapter 5 Alarm Alarm Setting Name mandatory field This parameter defines the name of the alarm Tag when it appears in the alarm message The limit on the length is 80 characters A string enclosed in a pair of square brackets can appear in the beginning of Name and a P character can be used in the category string to separate main category and sub category The strings will be used by the add on LogVi
194. rom the Data Tags list and press button Setting for data tags are discussed as follows TAG Name of the tag that is being configured as a data tag Data Group Name of the Data Group that the data tag belongs to Aggregation Since more than one tag value may be acquired during the specified data saving interval an Aggregation method must be selected to determine how the tag values should be processed and stored Selections include O Latest NEW Save the newest tag value within this saving interval 6 9 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Oldest OLD Save the oldest tag value within this saving interval Minimum MIN Save the minimum tag value within this saving interval Maximum MAX Save the maximum tag value within this saving interval Average AVG Save the average tag value within this saving interval UU Q Difference DLT Save the difference between the last tag value within this saving interval and the last tag value in the previous saving interval Integral INT Save the integration of the tag values within this saving interval The values are integrated against time with time unit of hours O Count for rising edge CT1 Save the number of times the tag changes from 0 to 1 within this saving interval O Count for falling edge CTO Save the number of times the tag changes from 1 to 0 within this saving interval Note CT1 an
195. rs if the value of the alarm tag is the same as the Reference Tag X1 Alarm occurs if the value of the alarm tag is different from the Reference Tag XC Alarm occurs if the value of the alarm tag changes but there is no change on the value of the Reference Tag Alarm Setting Trip Ala l Disable Tag Name DS Name New Alaml HaltTas Type Opposite SteX D Output Taz 7 Priotiy fp Alm Group O Delay Time 0 Sec Reset delay 0 Alarm Msg Alarm Alarm Meg Alarm Reference Tag f Remark FO Actom V Log to Database Print Message Reset When Acked M Log to History System Tags jv Set ENEW ALM Trigger Cutput Add Alarm cs Flay TTS Voice Delete Th Tags Tags list shows all the Tags in Tag database Click on the check box System Tag to show 5 49 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual system Tags in the list if one of system Tags needs to be used as a digital alarm You can also add a new Tag by pressing button on top of the Tags list Alarm Tags select a Tag and press Add Alarm button to add it as a digital alarm Tag The Tag will appear in the Alarm Tags list Select a Tag in the Alarm Tags list and its alarm setting appears on the right half of the dialog Alarm Setting Name mandatory field This parameter defines the name of the alarm Tag when it appears in the alarm message The limit on the length is 80 char
196. s Data can be set to expire after a month a year or never Expired data files are automatically UU UY Oo OU overwritten to save storage space Daily data are automatically combined to generated monthly data file Monthly data are automatically combined to generated yearly data file Various aggregations can be used to process data before storing them Linear conversion can be performed on aggregated data before saving them to files Aggregated and calculated data can redirect to other tags Stored data can be used by SmartPanel trend object and Lab LINK report 6 1 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Expand and Collapse Data Node Click on next to Data node in Project window to expand it and shows all the Data Groups in this module To collapse the node click on E next to Data node after it is expanded Add Data Group Project Proji Add Data Group Disable Data Module Add a new Data Group Right click on Data node and select Add Data Group from the popup menu a dialog appears to request for a Data Group name Enter a name and press OK button A Data Basic Setting dialog appears After the basic setting is finished the newly created Data Group will appear under the Data node in the Project window New Data Group can also be added by pressing the button in the Data Basic Setting dialog Add Data Group New Data Group namely Enter Data Group name 6 2 Chapter 6 Data Bas
197. s About Tagview Exit Tag View 14 7 Introduction After the configuration and testing of a Lab LINK project it may need to be deployed to the computer at the site of the control system Deployment of a Lab LINK project to a site computer involves two steps Installation and Deployment Installation is to install the Lab LINK system to the site computer Before the installation of the Lab LINK system please make sure the site computer is capable of running Lab LINK according the requirement discussed in the Installation chapter of this manual Deployment is to copy the entire configured Lab LINK project from the develop computer to the site computer This chapter covers the process of installation and deployment of a Lab LINK project Two scenarios are discussed Single machine and Networked project Single Machine Project Install proper version of Lab LINK for Windows on the site computer Install the keypro on the parallel port or USB port of the site computer Copy the entire project folder to project folder on the site computer For example if a project named Proj1 is to be deployed the entire folder at path lablink project proj1 on the develop computer needs to be copied into the lablink project folder at the site computer If there are any other files or subfolders not located beneath the project folder used be sure to copy these files or subfolders to exactly the same location on the site computer to gu
198. s F prg AddPnil Panel File ImpertPnl Panel File DeletefWVks1 Delete Confirm Ed Content wks 1 P Are you sure you want to delete this file File Name J MILLabLINK A Froject Proj pnh ks 1 pnl mea Content Right click on a file name to show its popup menu and select Content to open the file The application associated with that type of file will be run and the file selected will be loaded for editing or display Double click on a file name has the same effect 2 24 Chapter 2 PAM ej i Project Proji Ey pTi Modules Management of Other Files Management of other types of files is very similar to the operation of panel files The files include BMP graphic files WMF graphics files WAV sound files TXT text files DAT data files CSL script files File page of Project windows provide Add Import Delete and Content operation for these files Please follow the instructions discussed above for panel file to handle these files When Content is selected for a certain file the application associated with that type of file will be run to open the file for viewing or editing Lab LINK provide sample library for BMP graphic files WMF graphic files and WVA sound files User can import these file from the resource folder of Lab LINK into their project Location of the resource folder is at C lablink resource for a typical installation Three folders BMP WMF and WA
199. s been changed a message box will appear to request for confirmation on saving the change to the Security Setting File Press button to save the change or press to discard the change and exit the tool program ScrEdit 2 Save changes to database Setting saving confirmation All user setting change will take effect immediately for the current running project However if the user setting is not saved to file when exiting Security Editor the modified setting will not be 13 8 Chapter 13 Security saved When the Lab LINK project is exited and run again since the original user setting file will loaded the setting change will be lost To prevent this problem be sure to save the user setting before exiting Security Editor Option Setting Advanced setting provides some extra configuration on the authentication behavior These setting can only be set by the user with top privilege Security Editor SER ser overview Move Supervisor Manager Minimize E ues x Close Alt F4 Options About Security Editor Open Options setting First run Security Editor using the top privilege password Click on the H icon on the top left corner of the Security Editor window and select Options to show the dialog below Options Security Options d Fassword Only Cancel Check User Case Sensitive Options setting dialog O Password Only When the option is selected only password can be
200. s the item before sending it to Lab LINK 11 14 Chapter 11 OPC Connection Validate Press this button to request the OPC server to validate setting of the OPC item E Remark A short text string that describe the item After all modifications are made press button to accept the change or press button to discard the change 11 15 Chapter 12 Script SmartScript is the script language provided by Lab Link for Windows It provides a simple and quick way to incorporate user logic into a Lab LINK project to extend and enhance its function Scripts added into a Lab LINK project as modules will run together with the project This chapter will discuss how to add delete reference a script in a Lab LINK project For SmartScript editor usage and detail syntax of SmartScript please see Smart Script Reference Manual script Files and Modules Since SmartScript module is an interpreter the logic users programmed is stored as a text file at develop stage and will be interpreted and executed at runtime by the SmartScript module Script sources written by users at develop stage are stored as text files called Script Files with extension file name of CSL Users can add delete or edit them using the file management function in File page in the Project window Scripts Files are stored in the CSL subfolder in the project folder but not necessarily run when the project is starts A Script Module always references a Script F
201. s to locate the server at runtime IP address is recommended especially when the server and the client workstation are not in the same local area network Comm Tag Name Enter a tag name to be used as the Communication Tag At runtime client workstation can detect the communication status of the network connection between itself and the server workstation Communication Tag is used to indicate the connection status If the communication breaks down the value of Communication Tag will be set to 1 The tag can be conveniently assigned as a digital alarm to alert user the abnormal condition Chapter 9 Network Connection Network Connection Setting Project Proji Modules 4 Alarm J Data a Report 10 Driver J ODE Connection J OPC Connection 3 Network Connection h et Properties Net1 Basic Seting Net1 o 2 T Add Network Connection Delete Met1 Rename Net1 Disable Open Network Connection properties setting Right click on a Network Connection in the Project window and select Properties from the popup menu A Network Connection Setting dialog will appear On the left of the dialog is a Tags list showing all the tag in the Server Workstation Next to the tags list is the Network Tags list showing all the tags that have been added to this connection Select any tag from the Network Tags list its Network setting is shown on the right half of the dialog for you to edit Neti Sett
202. same command again If a number of consecutive retries still result in incorrect response the command will be consider as a failure and system will go on to send the next command This parameter specifies the maximum number of communication command error after which the command is consider failed Q lt Clear Value gt This parameter determines how the data of a IO Tag is set when its communication status becomes offline If the parameter is set to 0 the last data of the IO Tag before communication is offline will be retained If the parameter is set to 1 the data of the IO Tag will be cleared 0 for numerical data and null string for message data when communication is offline The default setting of this parameter is 0 Note For some IO drivers with extra parameters the position of this parameter should be placed after the extra parameters All the optional parameters described above can be omitted If a parameter is omitted the system will use its default value However if any prior parameter is omitted the commas used as delimiters between parameters cannot be omitted For example if only the parameter lt Command Delay gt needs to be set to 100 with all oter parameters are omitted the setting should be 100 Besides the optional communication parameters discussed above some I O divers have extra optional parameters 10 7 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual lt Time out gt lt Station Delay gt lt Command
203. select Rename from the popup menu you can edit the workstation name directly on the node Press lt Enter gt key on your keyboard after a new name is entered The workstation is then renamed When a workstation is renamed its root panel file will also be renamed to the same name Project Proji F Ta Modules j j J Pnl Project Proj1 Project Proji oo ae 7 EJ Wks 1 pn pmm T Emp Basic Setting Wks Vint Add Wokstation J Way Copy VYorkstation Vvks2 Txt Delete Workstation Wvks2 Dat sl 3 7 Chapter 4 Tag Tag Tag is the carrier of real time data in Lab LINK It is transfer among Lab LINK modules and Lab LINK runtime kernel will guarantee the consistent and update of Tag data For example a temperature reading is assigned to a Tag named TEMPOO1 by a PLC Driver If the Tag is also referenced by a DigiMeter object in SmartPanel whenever a new temperature reading is scanned by the PLC Driver the number display by the DigiMeter object will be updated Tag Manager Tag Manager plays the key role in Lab LINK runtime system kernel It is responsible for the transferring of real time Tag data among modules Its major task includes OQ Maintain the consistency of Tag data among modules Q Control the Tag data flow among modules such that only the modules use that Tag receive its update to achieve high efficiency Lab LINK Tag can be divided into two categories System Tag and User Ta
204. should be played Please refer to SmartPanel Users Manual for detail on the object Delay Time optional field This parameter specify the time in seconds an alarm Tag reach its alarm condition before the system recognize its alarm status and activate the subsequent alarm actions Delay Time is a number between 0 65535 If Reset Delay option of the alarm tag is also checked delay of the same time will also be applied to alarm reset When the alarm condition is cleared the same amount of time will also be waited before the system reset the alarm Reset Delay optional field This parameter specifies whether the Delay Time setting will be applied to alarm reset If checked alarm will not be reset until the specified delay time elapsed after alarm condition is cleared If this option is not checked an alarm will be reset as soon as its alarm condition is cleared Reset Msg mandatory field This parameter specifies the content of the reset message It is a string with length limit of 80 characters Rate of Change Limit mandatory field Limit on the change rate of the alarm tag s value Alarm occurs when tag value changes faster than or equal to the limit The limit has the time unit of seconds change per second This parameter can either be a constant value or a tag name If a tag name is set the value of that tag at run time is used as limit 9 33 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Alarm Msg mandatory fi
205. so reset it Set NEW_ALM Set the value of system tag NEW_ALM to 1 if this alarm occurs Print Message Print messages including alarm acknowledge and reset messages immediately when alarm condition of this alarm changed A valid printer port must be selected in Alarm Basic Setting for the option to be 5 13 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual effective Be sure to install appropriate printer driver also Log to History Log messages including alarm acknowledge and reset messages of this alarm to the Alarm History File If this option is not selected messages of this alarm won t be recorded in the history file History File checkbox must be selected in Alarm Basic Setting for this parameter to have effect Trigger Output Set the value of Output Tag to 1 when the alarm occurs This setting is effective only when an Output Tag name is also specified Play TTS Voice When the alarm occurs read the alarm message using TTS Text to Speech Operating system must support TTS of the language used in alarm messages for this setting to be effective Note TTS needs the support of Windows Speech API SAPI Windows XP support SAPI but Windows 2000 Besides Windows XP only support TTS in some languages Press Delete D button to delete an alarm tag from Alarm Tags list and remove its alarm settings Disable If the checkbox is checked the alarm setting of this alarm tag is disabled and no alarm
206. st for a name Enter a name and press to open Basic Setting dialog Finish the setting in the dialog and press button the new Network Connection is created and shown in the Project windows under the Network Connection node Server Workstation Select server workstation of the Network Connection If network information is not given in the basic setting of the selected server workstation the message box shown below will appear Neti Basic Setting P3 The selected workstation V ks1 has no IP address or Computer name setting w Do you want to do the setting now cae The message reminds user that server network setting is required before the Network 9 5 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual 9 6 Connection basic setting can be continued Press button to open the Basic Setting dialog of the server workstation Finish the setting by entering computer name or IP address and press button This will bring you back to the Basic Setting dialog of the Network Connection for you to continue its setting Workstation Wks1 Basic Setting Identification Workstation IP and Computer Name Name IF Address Remark Cancel Help IP or Computer Name After a server workstation is selected its computer name and IP address will appear in this drop down list Select its name or one of its IP addresses that is appropriate for this Network Connection Client workstation will use the selected computer name or IP addres
207. sts and has proper privilege setting for Lab LINK to write data during runtime Data File Expire after Overwrite Data After fe One Month One rear 0 Mever Mote Expired data files will be overwritten Data are stored in daily files In other word a data file can contain data of one day and a new file is used every day Since data files are named using Prefix and the day of month it is created it is obvious that these file name will repeat very month and the new files may overwrite the old ones every month Lab LINK use subfolder to separate data file with the same name to preserve and control the expiration old data files There are three expiration period selections for data files 6 6 Chapter 6 Data A Month lf A Month is selected all data files in the Data Group are stored directory under the folder specified in Data File Path Data files are created every day in the folder and new file overwrite the old ones ever month C LabLINK PROJECT Proj1 dat Dat1_01 xdf Daily file of day 1 Dat1_02 xdf Daily file of day 2 Dat1_ 30 xdf Daily file of day 30 __________ Dat 1_31 xdf Daily file of day 31 Dat1_01 xmf Monthly file of Jan _ Sd Datt 02 xmf Monthly file of Feb Dati 12 xmf Monthly file of Dec Dat1_05 xyf Yearly file of 2003 Dat1_06 xyf Yearly file of 2006 lf A Month is selected Month folders 01 02 12 are created under the folder specified A Year in Data File Path Data f
208. t TestServer 1 location Group name Group0 Test TestServer v1 lt Local gt Lab LINK Tag OPC Item IS Grout Channel 2 Device 3 Tacq 1 Add OPC Item Delete OPC Item Channel_2 Device_3 Tag_1 OPC Item Channel_2 Device_3 Tag_1 content Delete an OPC Item To delete an OPC item first open the OPC Connection window Click on the OPC Group it belongs to show all of its OPC items on the right Right click on the item to be deleted and select Delete OPC Item A message box appears to request for confirmation Press to confirm the deletion or press to cancel the operation Are you sure you want to delete the OPC Item Are you sure you want to delete the OPC Item Channel_2 Device_3 Tag_1 Ma Note when an OPC item is deleted the Lab LINK tag mapped to it will remain intact in the project Delete OPC Group OPC Connection OPC1 DPC serverfOPC Group OPC Server Test TestServer 1 lt Local gt Lab LINkK T P bGround Tag Add OPC Server Add OPC Group Add OPC Item Delete OPC Group Sroupo OPC Group roupi Properties Delete an OPC Group 11 11 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual To delete an OPC Group first open the OPC Connection window Right click on the OPC Group to be deleted and select Delete OPC Group A message box appears to request for confirmation Press to confirm the deletion or press to cancel the operation Are you sure you want to delete the OPC
209. t New Group from the popup menu A New Group dialog appears to request of detail setting of the new group New Group Group name LABLINK Description LabrLINK Privilege 1 users Members Enter the group name according to privilege needed ex LABLINK1 for the group with privilege 1 Press Create button to create the new group To add users into the group press Add button in the New Group dialog When the Select Users dialog appears press Advanced button to further expand the dialog 13 13 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Select Users Select this object type Users or Builtin security principals Object Types From this location USER Enter the object names to select examples o In the expanded Select Users dialog press Find Now button to show all the established users on the computer Select a user and add it to the group by clicking on it and press OK button Select Users select this object type Users or Built in security principals Object Types From this location USER Common Queries al Tol AAS Find Mow A Name RON In Folder Administrat USERO CL ANONYM P7 Authenticat BATCH PE CREATOR fi CREATOR P7 DIALUP fi Everyone fF Guest USER fs HelpAssist USEROI fe INTERAC fELOCAL SE P NETWORK ZNETWOR The newly added user can be seen in the Members list in the New Group dialog Press Add button again
210. t Report Type IZE l2 Fort size Daily f ROC Era ie Landscape Mionthly Common Era 0 Portrait 0 Yearly Select a Data Group from any workstation in the project to be used as the data source of the Report Only Data Groups whose File Type settings are Lab LINK Data Files XDF are shown in the drop down list In other words only Lab LINK proprietary XDF format data files can be used to generate reports In a networked SCADA application it is possible to have a workstation generating its reports using data files generated by another workstation As can be seen in Source Data Group drop down list data groups of all the workstations are shown and denoted in the form Workstation DataGroup to indicate which workstation does the Data Group belongs to Ex Wks1 DATA Wks1 is the workstation name and DATA is the data group name Data Path Path of the data files Please set the path based on the setting in source Data Group 7 10 Chapter 7 Report Note If the data files are generated by a remote workstation the path defined here should be defined from the view of the workstation running the report at runtime The path is usually a network path on the source workstation Default Data Path Use the path defined in the Source Data Group s Basic Setting If the source Data Group is from the local workstation the workstation running the report this is usually the case User Defined Path Use the path spe
211. tag name If the tag is set to 1 processing of the alarm tag will be halted Neither the occurrence nor the reset of alarm will be detected If this setting is omitted the alarm tag is always effective The tag name set in this field cannot be identical to the Tag name in Output Tag field When the value of the Halt Tag is set to 1 system will Suspend all alarm functions of the alarm Tag including alarming acknowledgement and reset Therefore if the Halt Tag is set to 1 after the occurrence of an alarm the alarm will remain even when its alarm condition is cleared Only after the Halt Tag is set to 0 alarm processing of this alarm tag can then be restored and the system will determine whether the alarm should be reset or not Output Tag optional field This parameter specifies a tag name If the alarm occurs the value of Output Tag will be set to 1 When the alarm is acknowledged or reset its value will be set to 0 If this setting is omitted no alarm output action will be performed The tag name set in this field cannot be identical to the Tag name in Halt Tag field Setting of this parameter is effective only when Trigger Output is also set in alarm Action 9 32 Chapter 5 Alarm Alm Group mandatory field This parameter specifies the Alarm Group the alarm tag belongs to Alarm Group is a number between 0 65535 and will be used by Alarm WAV Player object to determine which wave file
212. tcut from the project folder to the desktop of the site computer This shortcut is automatically created in the project folder when the project is generated in PAM The name of the shortcut is WorkstationName Panel Ex 15 2 Chapter 15 Deployment lablink project proj1 Wks1_ Panel 5 Adjust Windows network setting to satisfy the need of the Lab LINK project This may involve the connection with the server workstation to share its data folder network security and firewall related setting etc The purpose is to access data files on the server workstation and to let real time and historical data pass through the network security control such as firewall 6 Run the runtime shortcut of the workstation to start the project on the site computer The projects setting will be loaded and all the configured function will start Read Only Setting lf a CD ROM or DVD ROM is used as the media to transfer a Lab LINK project to the site computer care should be take since these media will record files and folders with Read only attribute Some of the Lab LINK project files must be writeable for the system to work correctly For computer running Windows XP this will not be a issue since the operating system will remove the read only attribute when the files are copied from the CD ROM DVD ROM to the hard disk However for computer using Windows 2000 user may need to remove the read only attribute manually 15 3
213. tcut is automatically created in the project folder when the project is generated in PAM The name of the shortcut is WorkstationName Panel Ex lablink project proj1 Wks1_ Panel 5 Adjust Windows network setting to satisfy the need of the Lab LINK project This may involve sharing of data folder network security and firewall related setting etc The purpose is to provide data files access of the client workstation and to let real time and historical data pass through the network security control such as firewall 6 Run the runtime shortcut of the workstation to start the project on the site computer The projects setting will be loaded and all the configured function will start Client Workstation 1 Install proper version of Lab LINK for Windows on the site computer 2 Install the keypro on the parallel port or USB port of the site computer 3 Copy the entire project folder to project folder on the site computer For example if a project named Proj1 is to be deployed the entire folder at path lablink project proj1 on the develop computer needs to be copied into the lablink project folder at the site computer If there are any other files or subfolders not located beneath the project folder used be sure to copy these files or subfolders to exactly the same location on the site computer to guarantee they match the path description defined in the project and thus can be found when needed 4 Copy the workstation runtime shor
214. ter 11 OPC Connection Add an OPC Connection Right click on the OPC Connection node in the Project window and select Add OPC Client from the popup menu A dialog appears to request for a name Note that there are limits on the naming of OPC connection m The name can only contain numeric characters and cannot contain the following special characters IL I i 2 lt gt amp E The limit on the length of the name is 80 characters m The name cannot be the same as any other Lab LINK modules Add OPC Connection New OPC Connection namei Add an OPC connection Enter a name for the OPC connection and press button to create a new connection An OPC Connection window as shown in the figure below will appear Left part of the window is used to display added OPC Server and OPC Group while the right part shows OPC Items created in selected OPC Server OPC Group OPC Connection OPC1 OPC Server OPC Group OO oO O Lab LINK T OPC Item OPC Connection Window Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Setting of OPC Connection includes m Add OPC Server Specify the name of OPC server to connect to m Add OPC Group Create OPC Group under the OPC Server An OPC Group is a set of data items belonging to the OPC server These data items will be updated together More than one OPC Groups can be added to an OPC Server E Add OPC Items Add data item of the OPC Server into the OPC Group and map each item to a L
215. this alarm won t be recorded in the history file History File checkbox must be selected in Alarm Basic Setting for this parameter to have effect Trigger Output Set the value of Output Tag to 1 when the alarm occurs This setting is effective only when an Output Tag name is also specified Play TTS Voice When the alarm occurs read the alarm message using TTS Text to Speech Operating system must support TTS of the language used in 9 93 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual alarm messages for this setting to be effective Note TTS needs the support of Windows Speech API SAPI Windows XP support SAPI but Windows 2000 Besides Windows XP only support TTS in some languages Press Delete D button to delete an alarm tag from Alarm Tags list and remove its alarm settings CO Disable If the checkbox is checked the alarm setting of this alarm tag is disabled and no alarm processing is performed on the tag at runtime The disabled alarm tag will also appear in gray color in the Alarm Tags list Press button to end alarm setting and close the dialog Help Press button to open help document related to this topic 5 54 Chapter 5 Alarm Event Setting Suitable for digital Tags Any change on the value of the alarm tag is considered an event In general this type is considered as an event instead of an alarm Therefore Log to History is usually the Action that is selected for this alarm type to log event recor
216. tion Show the name of the DDE Connection that is currently edited Data Item Specify the name of the data item in the DDE server whose data will be connected to the DDE tag Please refer to the manual of the server application for this name Remark Enter a short text to describe the DDE tag 8 4 Chapter 8 DDE Connection Delete a DDE Connection Project Proji J 10 Driver DDE Connection FARODIEL Properties ODE 1 Basic Actyate DDE Server DDE Connection Delete Add DBE Connection Delete DDE 1 2 Are you sure you want to delete DDE Connection COE 1 Rename DDE 1 Disable Cancel Right click on a DDE Connection in the Project window and select Delete from the popup menu to delete the connection A message box will appear to request for confirmation Press button to confirm the deletion or press button to cancel the operation Activate DDE Server Project Proji Modules J Wks E Tag T Alarm J Data ox Report J 10 Driver Activate DDE Server Activate DDE Server Ed Add DDE Connection k 1 DDE Server activated Lab LINK doesn t activate its DDE server by default To activate DDE server right click on DDE Connection node in the Project window and select Activate DE Server from the popup menu A 8 5 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual message box will appear to request for confirmation Press button to confirm the activation or press button
217. tion is restored Since the reconnection of network may consume much CPU time Lab LINK Network module will slow down the reconnection process if it cannot be restored immediately to avoid affecting the normal function of other modules However this will also delay the time for the connection to restore when the network recovers Chapter 10 I O Drivers Introduction I O Drivers are used to communicate with I O device They can scan I O devices for real time I O data and write data back to I O devices when data are changed by Lab LINK Lab LINK provides tens of I O Drivers for I O devices from many different venders This section will discuss how to configure the I O Drivers in a Lab LINK project Add an I O Driver i Project Projl Modules Add 10 Driver Right click on IO Driver node in the Project window and select Add IO Driver from the popup menu An Add IO Driver dialog appears 10 1 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Add IO Driver Please select an IO Driver IO Device Types IO Drivers Fama OMC Series PLC R5232 F P odas FATEK FACON FB Series PLC RS232 O Tio FATEK FACON FB Series PLC DTBR E Ethernet Ethernet _ Digital Power Meters FUJI MICREX PLC RS485 C Miscellaneous RIDINRS C All i RS232 RS F F F Honewell 620 Logic Controller Ethernet Interface EtherNet KEYENCE KV series PLC R5232 V List New IO Drivers only aa TTATIRISHT EW Sorio PIC RIDIR G G GE Series 90 PLC Ethe
218. to a two digit integer using BCD coding Only the lower byte will be used Q 4 Digits BCD m Convert a single word data into a 4 digit integer using BCD coding Q 6 Digits BCD s Taking two words of consecutive addresses starting with the specified address and convert its data into a 6 digit integer using BCD coding For the word with higher address only the lower byte will be used Q 8 Digits BCD o Taking two words of consecutive addresses starting with the specified address and convert its data into a 8 digit integer using BCD coding Q 12 Digits BCD j Taking three words of consecutive addresses starting with the specified address and convert its data into a 12 digit integer using BCD coding For the word with highest address only the lower byte will be used Q 16 Digits BCD h Taking four words of consecutive addresses starting with the specified address and convert its data into a 16 digit integer using BCD coding Q Float f Taking two words of consecutive addresses starting with the specified address and convert its data into a single precision floating number 10 17 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Q Double r Taking four words of consecutive addresses starting with the specified address and convert its data into a double precision floating number Q Byte b Convert the lower byte of the specified word into an integer using binary coding Q 3 Bytes c Taking three bytes of data in the two consecutive words starting
219. to add more users or press Close button to close the dialog and return to the Computer Management window 13 14 Chapter 13 Security New Group Group name LABLINK1 Description Lab LINK Privilege 1 users preeaetomnemmeaeniermirer Members E Administrator Remove The newly added group can be seen in the Groups list in the Computer Management window Follow the description above to add all Lab LINK group needed and add Windows users appropriate groups to finish Lab LINK users setup FE Computer Management Hak m File Action View Window Help e OH xg B Computer Management Loc amp System Tools 3 Administrators Administrators have complet ga Event Viewer Backup Operators Backup Operators can overri 9 Shared Folders 3 Guests Guests have the same acces 43 Local Users and Group Network Configura Members in this group can h Users 3 Power Users Power Users possess most a Remote Desktop U Members in this group are gr 3 Replicator Supports file replication in a Users are prevented from m J Groups 4 Performance Logs and E Users Device Manager 8 HelpServicesGroup Group for the Help and Supp ij Storage 24 ABLINK 1 Lab LINK Privilege 1 users g Removable Storage Disk Defragmenter 2 Disk Management Services and Applications 13 15 Introduction Tag View is one of the tool program provided by Lab LINK for Windows Developme
220. to be deleted and select Delete from its popup menu A message box appears to request for confirmation of deletion Press button to delete it or press button to cancel the operation Rename IO Driver ise Project Frojl y 1 Driver ii a FA DDE Connect Properties MODBM OPC Connecti Basie Setting MIODBM J Network Cony a Script Add ite Driver Delete MODEM Rename MODBM Disable Rename an IO Driver Right click on the IO driver to be renamed and select Rename from its popup menu Its name will 10 29 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual be highlighted and allow user to edit Enter a new name and press lt Enter gt key on the keyboard to change its name Disable Project Projl A IO Driver fe MODBM SI DDE Connecti Properties MODBM J OPC Connecti Basic Setting MODBM J Network Conn T Script Add IO Driver Delete MODBM Fename MODBM Dishes Disable an IO Driver Right click on the IO driver to be disabled and select Disabled from its popup menu Its name will be displayed in gray color to indicate that it is disabled When the project is regenerated and rerun the disabled IO driver will not be executed and no communication with devices using this driver will occur To enable the IO driver right click on the IO driver and select Enable After the project is regenerated and rerun the IO driver will resume running Detection of Communication Problem In general all
221. tor can run by an Executer object at run time if necessary The Security Setting File modified will then be the one specified in Workstation basic setting Note Since Security Setting File is very important for Lab LINK runtime operation developer should determine its location carefully to prevent improper use and modification Use Windows Authentication Lab LINK also support Windows user authentication for user identification validation To use this feature please open workstation basic setting dialog and select Security tab Click on User Defined Path and enter OS in the field below 13 11 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual Workstation Wksl Basic Setting Identification Security Security Setting File C Use Default Fath Remark 1 This default is recommended for most users 2 security Editor can not edit the default security setting file User Defined Fath os Femark l a l Use this setting when multiple workstations use the same security file 2 Flease make sure the specified path 1s accessible during runtime 3 Security Editor can not edit the default security setting file 4 The edit default security file should be copied to the user defined path Regenerate and run the project the security setting will be applied and the system will use Windows user and group authentication to validate users identification Windows Group Setting Since Windows do not use the Privilege concept as
222. trol of the limitation on user operation Through proper configuration of control objects the developer can determine the operation behavior of each user There is no preset privilege for any runtime operation with only two exceptions The execution of Security Editor and Tag View Since Security Editor is the user managing tool and Tag View is the tool used for project testing and debugging password authentication is required and a minimum of 200 in privilege is needed when the two tool program is executed Note The system only allows a single user to have the top privilege of 255 This user can view and modify any user s identification data and thus can be considered as the system manager of Lab LINK runtime Run Security Editor Security Editor is the tool program to manage users It can be used to add delete or modify user information There are three ways to execute Security Editor O In PAM select Security Editor from the Tool menu or press the button on tool bar O In Windows select Start All Program Lab LINK 4 for Windows Security Editor shortcut O Create a shortcut or use an Executioner object in SmartPanel to run the tool Its path is in the Lab LINK system folder c lablink system4 by default and the name of its program file is Scredit exe When Security Editor is executed a password authentication dialog will appear to request for a password A password with privilege greater than or equal to 200 is
223. untime configuration created when you generate the project It contains definition of reports you configured for the workstation It is located at the workstation folder under the project s Cfg folder Its name is Report cat by default The complete path is c Lablink project ProjectName ctg Workstation Name report cat where ProjectName is the name of the project and Workstation Name is the name of the workstation For example the command lines to run the report module the two workstations WksT and Wks of project Proj are Wks REPORT EXE PROJECT Proj1 cfg Wks1 report cat Wks2 REPORT EXE PROJECT Proj1 cfg Wks2 report cat XCord YCord Width Height These properties define the position and size of the Report module window Similar to the Windows objects in SmartPanel the screen is mapped to a logical coordinate system with the Origin point at the upper left corner and the size of the screen is 10000 10000 Please refer to SmartPanel User s Manual for explanation on the coordinate system If these properties are omitted the runtime Report window always occupies the whole screen Besides the definition of Report window location and size the existence of these parameters has an implicit meaning If the report window does not occupies the whole screen Report is 7 18 Chapter 7 Report considered being run in a Lab LINK project and will end when the Lab LINK project ends Otherwise R
224. urs when Tag value is 1 and DO alarm occurs when Tag value is 0 Q High Low Alarm Suitable for analog Tags A high limit and a low limit can be defined When Tag value is greater than or equal to the high limit High alarm occurs If Tag value is smaller than or equal to the low limit Low alarm occurs Q HH H L LL Alarm Suitable for analog Tags Similar to High Low alarm but with a second set of limits When Tag value is greater than the high high limit HH alarm occurs If Tag value is smaller than the low low limit LL alarm occurs QO Rate of Change Alarm Suitable for analog Tags Alarm occurs when the speed of change of alarm Tag value exceed a specified limit Q Deviation Alarm Suitable for analog Tags Based on a specified Base value alarm occurs when the different of the Base value and the alarm Tag value is greater than or equal to the specified Deviation QO Timeout Alarm Suitable for digital Tags A Reference Tag is compared with the alarm Tag The alarm Tag value must change as the Reference Tag within a specified time limit Otherwise alarm occurs This type of alarm can be further divided into two subtypes TO and T1 TO alarm occurs if alarm Tag and the Reference Tag are at the same state after the time limit T1 alarm occurs if alarm Tag and the Reference Tag are at the opposite state after the time limit There is no automatic reset for Timeout alarm Q Trip Alarm Suitable for digital Tags A Reference Tag
225. will 5 7 Lab LINK for Windows User Manual be flushed away from memory when Lab LINK ends However not storing Active Alarm Database won t an issue if Dual Log is used since it reflect the real time alarm condition and will be detected again when Lab LINK is started Therefore this option is not selected as default when using Dual Log For Single Log this is the only alarm database file used and should usually be selected to keep alarm database records Default Path of Active Alarm Database is Project ProjectName dat Alarm xdb located at the dat sub folder under project folder that is also denoted as Reference Folder 6 Users can change this default location by keying a different path To reset the path to its default press button Content of can be view using Alarm Log object in SmartPanel Alarm History Database Click on the checkbox to store Alarm History Database into a file using Lab LINK proprietary format The file can contain up to 1024 latest alarm records Alarm History Database won t be stored if this option is not selected and all alarm history records will be flushed away from memory when Lab LINK ends Therefore this option is selected as default This option has effect only if Dual Log is used Default Path of Alarm History Database is Project ProjectName dat Resume xdb located at the dat sub folder under project folder that is also denoted as Reference Folder 6
226. wo types based on the format it present data QO Text Report Present data in a table to shows values of multiple tags in columns It also provide statistic summary for each column OQ Trend Report Present data using a trend char to display data as curve to show how they change with time Add a Text Report Project Proji Add Report Text Report Trend Report New Text Report name N Report Adjust Report Order const Add a Text Report Right click on the Report node in the Project windows and select Add Text Report to add a new Text Report A dialog appears to request for a report name Enter a name and press button to show Basic Setting dialog Finishing the basic setting and a new text report is created lf no Data Group has been created for any workstation in the project a message box will appear to warn that a Report cannot be generated since there is no available Data Group Please finish the configuration for Data module first before attempting to add a report 1 2 Chapter 7 Report Add Text Report A Cannot add a new Report because there is no usable Data Group to be referenced Only Data Group with XDF fle type can be referenced by Report Please add at least one Data Group before adding a Report Basic Setting of Text Report Project Proji aa 10 Driver Properties ReportT 1 a DDE Conni eee ae Sele ae ee T OPC Conne FD Networked Add Report Z Script Delete Report 1 Ren

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