Add a Comment to the SOE Page

You can add a comment to an event listed on the Sequence of Events (SOE) page.

Note: You cannot modify or delete an existing comment for an event. You can only add a comment.

To add a comment to the SOE page:

1. Right-click on the relevant event and select Comment.

   The Comment dialog will appear. The name of the associated alarm tag (if relevant to the selected event) displays in the dialog title bar (for example, "Comment [Alarm_6]").

2. Enter your comment in the Enter Comment field.

3. Click OK.

The comment will display in the list on the Sequence of Events page next to the associated event.

You can also add comments to an event on the SOE page using the AlarmComment Cicode function. To add a message to the relevant event you can include the ‘AN’ as an additional parameter in the function.

For example:

AlarmComment ("Temperature discrepancies", 21)

To successfully add a comment to an event on the SOE page, the following rules need to be met:

• The event is not of "Comment" classification.

• A user should be logged on to the client process.

• If the event is associated with an alarm tag, the logged on user needs to have sufficient privileges for the alarm.

• If the event is not automatically generated by the system, the logged on user needs to match to the user associated with the event.

• If the event is automatically generated by the system, the logged on user needs to have full privileges (from 1 to 8).

  Note: If you have installed Plant SCADA on an English operating system and want to add comments at runtime using a Unicode language (such as Korean, Russian or Chinese), you will need to change the Windows™ Region setting for the runtime computer. To do this, go to Control Panel and open the Region dialog box. On the Administrative tab, use the Change system locale button to select the required system locale. Be aware that you will have to restart your computer. When you launch runtime, select the matching Language on the login form. Your runtime comments will be recorded using the specified language characters.

See Also

Add an Event to the SOE Page