Step 3. Enter General Specifications for the HAV

Enter and select the following on the General tab in the CIMPLICITY Historical Alarm Viewer Properties dialog box.

1 Caption.
2 Use ambient properties.
3 Show toolbar.
4 Show Date/Time Pickers.
5 Font guideline.
1 Caption

The caption is a title that will identify the control during runtime.

Note: If the caption includes an ampersand, Windows will not display the ampersand. Use a double ampersand to get a single ampersand to display. && will display as & in the runtime title.
2 Use Ambient Properties

Check Use Ambient Properties to use the CimEdit ambient properties for the Historical Alarm Viewer.

3 Show Toolbar

Check Show Toolbar to display the following toolbar during runtime.

A Sort a selected column in ascending order.
B Sort a selected column in descending order.
C Add a filter to the view based on a selected cell.
D Remove the additional filters.
Note: Filters applied during runtime are in addition to any filters configured on the SQL tab in the CIMPLICITY Historical Alarm Viewer Properties dialog box. The UF button removes the runtime filters only.
4 Show Date/Time Pickers

Check Show Date/Time Pickers to display a Start Date-Time and End Date-Time.

 A user can select the starting and ending time of the logged data that the CIMPLICITY Historical Alarm Viewer will display.

If the user clicks the down arrow to the right of each field a calendar will open to aid in making the selection.

Note: You can specify the amount of time the Historical Alarm Viewer will display at one time. This specification is on the SQL tab in the CIMPLICITY Historical Alarm Viewer Properties dialog box.

The runtime Historical Alarm Viewer control will display the options that you selected and configured.

5 Font Guideline

If an alarm message that needs to use non-Western characters (e.g. Cyrillic, Chinese) displays ???? instead of the message, the following procedure may correct the issue.

  1. Right-click the Historical Alarm Viewer control.
  2. Select Properties on the Popup menu.

    The Properties - Object dialog box opens.

  3. Select Control Properties.
  4. Click the Open button to the right of the Font field.

    The Font dialog box opens.

  5. Select a font that includes the characters for the required language.
  6. Select the language in the script drop-down list.
  7. Close the Font dialog box.
  8. Close the Properties - Object dialog box.
Note: If this procedure does not resolve the issue, other factors might be affecting font display on your system. Consult Microsoft documentation also.

This procedure applies to values/text from SQL Server. Cyrillic and other non-western characters are not available for  data from Historian.