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PI Interface for Emerson DeltaV Batch

Template placeholders

  • Last UpdatedJul 29, 2025
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The following sections list placeholders provided by the interface for defining template settings.

DeltaV Batch Historian

Placeholder

Relationship to Source Column

Source Column

View or Union of tables1

[AREA]

equivalent to

area

batcheventview

[BATCHID]

equivalent to

batchID

batcheventview

[COMMENT]

Paragraph

userComment

Union of tables

[DESCRIPT]

equivalent to

eventdescr

batcheventview

[EU]

Paragraph

engUnit

Union of tables

[EVENT] or [PARAMETER]

equivalent to

eventType

batcheventview

[OPERATION]

determined from equivalent to

action

batcheventview

[PHASE]

determined from equivalent to

action

batcheventview

[PHASEMODULE]

equivalent to

phasemodule

batcheventview

[PROCEDURE]

determined from equivalent to

action

batcheventview

[PROCESSCELL]

equivalent to

processcell

batcheventview

[PVAL] or [VALUE]

Union of tables2

[TIME]

n/a

n/a

n/a

[RECIPESTEP]

n/a

n/a

n/a

[RECIPETYPE]

n/a

n/a

n/a

[UNIQUEID]

equivalent to

uniqueid

batcheventview

[UNIT]

equivalent to

unit

batcheventview

[UNITPROCEDURE]

determined from equivalent to

action

batcheventview

[USERID] or [USER]

equivalent to

userName

batcheventview

1: Named view or union of tables as described in the topic: Emerson start and stop events

2: Value appropriate to each table in the union of tables, for example: the value column of the BReportEvent table.

For the VALUE setting and for NAME in property templates, the additional placeholders [TAG] and [TIME] are supported.

DeltaV Event Chronicle (Alarms & Events Historian) Placeholders

  • [AREA]

  • [ATTRIBUTE]

  • [CATEGORY]

  • [DESC1]

  • [DESC2]

  • [EVENT]

  • [LEVEL]

  • [MODULE]

  • [MODULEDESC]

  • [NODE]

  • [STATE]

  • [TIME]

  • [UNIT] (If [MODULEDESC] is "Unit Module", the [UNIT] placeholder contains the module name. Otherwise it contains the unit name.)

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