About System Points

CIMPLICITY provides you with several system points that you can use any where in your project including:

  • Event Manager
  • CimEdit
  • CimView
  • Point Control Panel

Each system point, which is Read only, is automatically updated by CIMPLICITY. The default update time is every 60 seconds. To see the value of any one, all you have to do is select it for display.

System point categories include the following points.

$ALARM $CLASS $LOCAL $PROJECT $ROLE $USER
$ALARM
  • $ALARM.ACKED
  • $ALARM.ACTIVE
  • $ALARM.TOTAL
  • $ALARM.UNACKED
$CLASS
  • $CLASS_<Alarm class name>.ALARMS
  • $CLASS_<Alarm class name>.UNACKED
  • $CLASS_<Alarm class name>.UNRESET
$LOCAL
  • $LOCAL.BIG_COUNTER
  • $LOCAL.DATE.MONTH
  • $LOCAL.COMPUTER
  • $LOCAL.DATE.SECOND
  • $LOCAL.COUNTER
  • $LOCAL.DATE.SECONDOFDAY
  • $LOCAL.DATE.AMPM
  • $LOCAL.DATE.WEEK
  • $LOCAL.DATE.DAY
  • $LOCAL.DATE.YEAR
  • $LOCAL.DATE.DAYOFWEEK
  • $LOCAL.DATETIME
  • $LOCAL.DATE.DAYOFYEAR
  • $LOCAL.DATETIME_INTERVAL
  • $LOCAL.DATE.HOUR
  • $LOCAL.DATETIME_VARUPDATE
  • $LOCAL.DATE.HOUR12
  • $LOCAL.DGR_STATE
  • $LOCAL.DATE.MINUTE
  • $LOCAL.WINUSER
$PROJECT
$PROJECT $PROJECT.DATE.MONTH
$PROJECT.AVAILABLE $PROJECT.DATE.SECOND
$PROJECT.COMPUTER $PROJECT.DATE.SECONDOFDAY
$PROJECT.DATE.AMPM $PROJECT.DATE.WEEK
$PROJECT.DATE.DAY $PROJECT.DATE.YEAR
$PROJECT.DATE.DAYOFWEEK $PROJECT.DATETIME
$PROJECT.DATE.DAYOFYEAR $PROJECTDEVICES
$PROJECT.DATE.HOUR $PROJECT.LOGGEDIN
$PROJECT.DATE.HOUR12 $PROJECT.USERS
$PROJECT.DATE.MINUTE
$ROLE
  • $ROLE
  • $ROLE.LEVEL
$USER
  • $USER
  • $USER.ALARMS