7-7
Equipment
Manual OP7, OP17
Release 04/99
7.2 Displaying
Messages
Event
and alarm messages are always output to the display at message level
and are displayed according to display and message priorities.
If several messages having identical display and message priorities exist si
-
multaneously
, the most recent is displayed in all cases, for both event and
alarm messages.
System messages always have top priority in so far as display is concerned;
unacknowledged alarm messages always have the second highest priority
.
Otherwise, messages are displayed in dif
ferent sequences depending on
whether separate or together output of event and alarm messages was config
-
ured.
Message priorities of
1 (low) to
4 (high)
can be set within event and alarm messages in the configuration according to
their importance. If several messages of the same display priority exist simul
-
taneously
, they are displayed according to their message priorities, those with
the highest message priority being shown first and those with the lowest last.
Depening on the setting, either the oldest message (
First
) or the newest mes
-
sage (
Last
) is displayed when there are several alarm messages present. Y
ou
can change this setting on the OP online via the standard screen
System Set
-
tings. T
o do this, select the standard screen
System Settings
DispMsg
and
set the appropriate parameter
.
Display
Display
priorities
Message priorities
Displaying the
first/last message