ECT for PVs

SUMMARY

Description of EventGroups and Event Condition Tables for PVs.

CONTENTS

  1. Introduction
  2. Properties

Introduction

If to a PV the event type “disturbance” or “notification” is assigned the definitions in the event condition table becomes valid, for other event types the condition table is ignored.
The event condition table is a list where ECT-Status are defined.

In VisionNT these information are contained in the tables _ECT.dbf and _ECTSTS.dbf.
Names and number of the fields differ to those in AvET.

The differences are:

Properties

List name: EventGroup
File extension: .ect.xml
Objects: EventGroup Status

Properties of EventGroups
Field (Name in Refresh- Actionscript & XML-Files) Description assosiated VisuNT-Field (max.Lenght)
Name (Name) Name of EventGroup _ect.dbf: Name (32)
Description (Descr) free Text _ect.dbf: Descr (32)
Area Switching (Range) yes (Any value not listed is allocated to next higher value found in the list.)
no (Any value not listed is allocated to the default value.)
_ect.dbf: Range (1)
Acknowlegementtype (AcknType) Not (no acknewledgement) / local (ack. only on the local OS visible) / global (ack. visible on any OS) _ect.dbf: Ackn_type (1)
AccessRight (AccessRight) right to acknowledge _ect.dbf: Fktnum (11)

Properties of ECT-Status
Field (Name in Refresh- Actionscript & XML-Files) Description assosiated VisuNT-Field (max.Lenght)
Status (Status) Status Value not existent, contained in _ectsts.dbf
Value (Value) Compare value resp. Limit _ectsts.dbf: Value (255)
AlarmLevel (AlarmLevel) Alarm Level assigned to a status _ectsts.dbf: Alr_lev (11)
Text (Text) Name of the assigned Status Texts not existent, contained in - Language Tables