2. Enter Marquee Port Details

Use the Marquee Port details dialog box to set the page with and cycle time for messages. You can also select the types of messages to display.

Option Description
Page width Width to be used when calculating word wrapping for the devices on the port..
Cycle time Maximum number of seconds to be spent displaying messages from the queue before the displaying of messages will re-start from the beginning of the queue
Log events Checked Log events to be processed.
Log alarms Checked Log alarms to be processed.
Config Port Opens the Marquee Port <Port> Config dialog box, which provides options to configure the Marquee port. Options are:
Baud rate Selections are: 75 110 150 300 600 1200 2400 4800 9600 19200
Parity Selections are: none odd even mark space
Data Selections are: 4 Bits 8 Bits
Stop bit Selections are: One & Half Stop Bits One Stop Bit Two Stop Bits
All alarm classes Checked Display all alarm classes. Important: Create an alarm class for each Marquee port and use a different alarm class to filter alarm messages to each Marquee process. Serious performance problems could result from sending all alarms to all Marquee processes if it is a normal condition for there to be a large number of outstanding alarms in your CIMPLICITY project.
Cleared Display the alarms for a single alarm class.
Alarm class Display the alarms for the selected alarm class.
Opens the Select an Alarm Class browser
Opens a Popup menu to create or select an alarm class.