xGen Installation & Programming Guide 109
Example
Programming Instructions for Actions
Goal
Create an action to monitor up to four input events and drive one output event
(action result).
Pre-conditions
Program the input and output events you want the Action to monitor or control.
Notes
See xGen Reference Guide for more details on Actions.
Write/Plan out on paper what you want to create to make it easier to set up
Actions and associated settings.
Event 1 Event 2 Event 3 Event 4
Action
State
and
or
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Action
Result
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or
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Channel Group 1
Channel 1
Channel 2
Channel 3
Event List 1
Critical
Alarms
Bypass & Restore
AC Fail
AC Fail
Menu 6.11.1.1
Channel Group
System Event
Reporting
Channel 2
Control Room 2
Event List = 1
Next Channel = 5
Channel 3
Email
Event List = 2
Next Channel = 0
Channel 1
Control Room 1
Event List = 1
Channel Attempts = 3
Next Channel = 4
Menu 18 – Channel Groups
System sends event to
Channel Group
Channel Group sends event
to every Channel it contains
Menu 5 – Channels
Channel 5
Control Room 2
Event List = 1
Next Channel = 0
Channel 4
Control Room 1
Event List = 1
Channel Attempts = 3
Next Channel = 0
Gen will go back to the first Channel in the chain
Sequence Attempts = 2
Channels 1 and 2 will attempt to send the event as AC Fail is on the
corresponding Event List. Back up channels 4 and 5 will also attempt
to send the event if they are used.
Channel 3 will NOT send the event as Event List 2 does not include