General Parameters
- Last UpdatedSep 29, 2025
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The Citect.ini file contains the following general parameters:
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[General]AdvancedDDEPoll - The rate at which Plant SCADA polls I/O devices for data requested by another application (using DDE).
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[General]AELManagerUrl - This parameter stores the current URL for the AVEVA™ Enterprise License Manager.
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[General]BadOptimise - Obsolete in version 7.0.
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[General]BufferIO - The size of the compiler's file buffer.
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[General]CheckAddressBoundary - Determines whether the compiler checks for correctly-aligned I/O device variables.
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[General]ClusterReplication - Controls whether tag or tag reference will be replicated in a multi-cluster system.
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[General]CitectRunningCheck - Obsolete in version 7.0.
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[General]Ctl3D - Determines whether dialog boxes in the runtime system display with a three-dimensional effect.
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[General]DeadlockTimeout - Specifies the number of seconds to wait before await on an event is considered timed-out.
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[General]DeadlockWarning - Specifies whether an error message is displayed if a time-out occurs.
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[General]DebugInfo - Determines whether symbolic information is included in the compiled Cicode. This controls whether Cicode can be debugged or not.
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[General]DisablePlotSetupForm - Determines whether the Plot Setup form displays when the TrnPrint() function is used.
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[General]DisableRemoteBlocking - Disables blocking on a remote I/O device.
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[General]EnableIndustrialGraphics - Disables Industrial Graphics functionality within Plant SCADA configuration tools.
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[General]EnforceTagGlobalUniqueness - Determines if the compiler generates warning messages for tag names that are not globally unique.
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[General]FormatCheck - Determines whether alarm values are truncated when they are longer than the field in which they are to display.
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[General]InfoDestroy - Determines whether the VARIABLE.DBF file is closed automatically after a call to the DspInfoField() function.
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[General]LicensingFullLogging - Enables licensing information to be logged.
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[General]LicenseReservationTimeout - Specifies the number of seconds to reserve a license for a given IP address in cases where a remote client connection is lost.
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[General]LockDelay - Sets the time delay in millisecond between file operation retries.
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[General]LockRetry - The number of times to retry an operation that does not succeed because a file is locked.
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[General]LongFilename - Enables long filename support for Plant SCADA projects, pages, and filenames.
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[General]Multiprocess - Detemines whether Plant SCADA runs as a multi-process or single-process application.
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[General]OSErrors - Enables/disables Plant SCADA trapping of Operating System errors.
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[General]PasswordExpiry - Determines how long your user and operator passwords will take to expire.
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[General]PointCountHigh - The percentage figure at which the first watermark message will be displayed.
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[General]PointCountHighHigh - The percentage figure at which the second watermark message will be displayed.
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[General]PointLimitMsg - Obsolete in version 7.0.
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[General]PrinterColourMode - Determines the default setting (black & white, or color) for trends printed using the TrnPrint() function.
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[General]RegionalNumbersFormat - Determines how Plant SCADA outputs data containing decimal numbers.
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[General]ServerMonitoringPeriod - Defines how often a Alarm Client will send an additional transaction to its server.
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[General]ShareFiles - Enables/disables the opening of projects by the compiler in Shared Mode.
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[General]ShowDriverError - Determines whether an error dialog displays when an internal driver error occurs.
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[General]Stack - The size of the Plant SCADA general-purpose stack.
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[General]StartDelay - Delays the startup of Plant SCADA for a specified period.
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[General]SymbolicInfo - Enables/disables AN help information.
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[General]TagAssMode - Obsolete in version 7.20. Refer to [General]TagDB instead.
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[General]TagDB - Determines whether the Variable Tags database is loaded when the project is compiled.
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[General]TagDBReloadOnChange - Determines whether the Variable Tags database is checked for changes and reloaded when a new page is displayed.
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[General]TagStartDigit - Allows you to use tags that have a number as the first digit.
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[General]TagWriteEventFmt - Allows the formatting of writes to the TagWriteEventQue.
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[General]TagWriteEventQue - Enables/disables logging of tags from IO Devices to a queue called TagWriteEventQue
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[General]TrnPrinter - The default printer port used in the TrnPrint() function.
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[General]TypeRemapAllowed - When set the Data Type field on the form is not editable when the variable tag is linked .
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[General]Verbose - Enables/disables the display of the startup dialog box, which shows the opening runtime databases and other information.
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[General]VerboseToSysLog - Enables startup messages displayed by the Kernel in "Verbose" mode to be logged in the SYSLOG.DAT file.
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[General]WatermarkedPointCount - A flag indicating if watermarking is to be displayed for proximity to point count limits
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- [General]AdvancedDDEPoll
- [General]AELManagerUrl
- [General]BufferIO
- [General]CheckAddressBoundary
- [General]ClusterReplication
- [General]Ctl3D
- [General]DeadlockTimeout
- [General]DeadlockWarning
- [General]DebugInfo
- [General]DisablePlotSetupForm
- [General]DisableRemoteBlocking
- [General]EnableIndustrialGraphics
- [General]EnforceTagGlobalUniqueness
- [General]FormatCheck
- [General]InfoDestroy
- [General]LicenseReservationTimeout
- [General]LicensingFullLogging
- [General]LockDelay
- [General]LockRetry
- [General]LongFilename
- [General]Multiprocess
- [General]OSErrors
- [General]PasswordExpiry
- [General]PointCountHigh
- [General]PointCountHighHigh
- [General]PrinterColourMode
- [General]RegionalNumbersFormat
- [General]ServerMonitoringPeriod
- [General]ShareFiles
- [General]ShowDriverError
- [General]Stack
- [General]StartDelay
- [General]SymbolicInfo
- [General]TagDB
- [General]TagDBReloadOnChange
- [General]TagStartDigit
- [General]TagWriteEventFmt
- [General]TagWriteEventQue
- [General]TrnPrinter
- [General]TypeRemapAllowed
- [General]Verbose
- [General]VerboseToSysLog
- [General]WatermarkedPointCount