Comm Indicator Drawing Method

Available in all applications

Used by:  Data Flow RTU,  Polling Driver,  Allen Bradley Driver,  CIP Driver,  Dataradio Diagnostic Driver,  DDE Driver,  DNP 3.0 Driver,  Driver Multiplexer,  MDS Diagnostic Driver,  Modicon Driver,  Omron Host Link Driver,  OPC Client Driver,  Siemens S7 Driver,  Workstation Driver.

 

The Comm Indicator tag drawing method is used to draw an indicator square, the color of which indicates the current status of the associated I/O device.

The graphic editor dialog for the Color Line is as shown:

There are two user-configurable options for this drawing method:  the color to display when the associated I/O device is operating under normal conditions and the color to display when it is in an error state.

 

Note: when used with the Data Flow RTU driver, the context menu for this drawing method will have an extra option: “Active”.

Data Flow RTU drivers have their own polling feature which can activated or not through their configuration panel. Operators who do not have configuration privileges, but do have either “tag modify” or “ manual data” security privileges can toggle the active polling state on or off  by right-clicking on this drawing method and selecting the Active status.