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
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Placeholder |
Relationship to Source Column |
Source Column |
View or Union of tables1 |
|---|---|---|---|
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[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 |
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[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
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[AREA]
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[ATTRIBUTE]
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[CATEGORY]
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[DESC1]
-
[DESC2]
-
[EVENT]
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[LEVEL]
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[MODULE]
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[MODULEDESC]
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[NODE]
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[STATE]
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[TIME]
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[UNIT] (If [MODULEDESC] is "Unit Module", the [UNIT] placeholder contains the module name. Otherwise it contains the unit name.)