Tour digital states

You can select states in the state set, which are associated with all the tags in a tour. Some examples are: Meter Broken, Bad Data, Idle, Out of Service, Not Running, Equipment Off, and Tagged Out.

You can associate digital strings for real and integer tags. For example, consider that during lab data entry, you need to record digital strings for some real and integer data types. Some lab tests result in values that range from 0-9, which are good test results, but at the same time you need to record digital string values (such as bad input, milky, cloudy, turbid) as reason codes for test failure.

Digital state types

There are two types of digital states that can be included within a tour, SYSTEM and user-defined (non-SYSTEM).

If a point has been defined as a Digital Point Type with a non-SYSTEM specific Digital Set, that point can be included within a PI Manual Logger tour, thus providing its values during a tour run, in addition to any SYSTEM digital states that are included in the tour. When a tour is run, the Tag Value drop-down list displays the user-defined Digital States first, and then the SYSTEM digital states that were included in the tour.

Digital state display order

Users can access the Digital States tab in Tools > User Options to set the display order of the digital states in the Tag Value list. See Specify user preferences in the PI Manual Logger Data Collector Guide.

Review digital states

You can review digital states by selecting PIML > PI Tags and Digital States and clicking the PI Digital States tab. However, this method does not show the tour with which the digital state is associated.