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 |
The caption is a title that will identify the control during runtime.
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. |
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.
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.
- Right-click the Historical Alarm Viewer control.
- Select Properties on the Popup menu.
The Properties - Object dialog box opens.
- Select Control Properties.
- Click the Open button to the right of the Font field.
The Font dialog box opens.
- Select a font that includes the characters for the required language.
- Select the language in the script drop-down list.
- Close the Font dialog box.
- Close the Properties - Object dialog box.
This procedure applies to values/text from SQL Server. Cyrillic and other non-western characters are not available for data from Historian.