Help with Pop up on bit status.

[AutomationGenie]

Hello!

I'm tying to trigger a pop up on a bit status and having some issue with it.

Here's the cicode I'm using.

FUNCTION PopOnTag1()
REAL status;

status = TagRead("tag_1", 0, "Cluster1");


IF status = 1.0 THEN
AssPopUp("!ack", "tag_1", "'RO1 Pressure High'");
END
END

When i call the !ack super genie through a button press, it works. so I'm sure my super genie is working.

I tried to set up the above mentioned code in a cicode object in graphic builder but the pop up wont trigger on bit status. where am i going wrong, please help.

[olivier_vallee · Accepted solution]

Hi @AutomationGenie,

Do you want the popup to work on any page or just a specific page? Since the cicode object on the page, means you would need to place that on all your pages.

I can see why the cicode object approach isn't working, since it is on a page (known as foreground cicode) and TagRead is a blocking function, which won't work on foreground cicode.

Could you try modify your function, by trying:

status = Cluster1.Tag_1;

You could also try use the TagGetValue function if the above does not work:

status = TagGetValue("Cluster1.Tag_1");

An alternative approach, to the one above, which wouldn't require a specific cicode object to execute on each page, would be to define an Event, that runs on the client process.

You could call it "GLOBAL", then it will run on all Client processes in your system. If you only want it to run on specific machines (not all) then give it a unique name, then add the citect.ini setting [CLIENT]Events="YourEventName" to enable it on the machine you want.

See the help for more details: https://docs.aveva.com/bundle/plant-scada/page/1095492.html

Kind regards

Olivier

[AutomationGenie]

Hi Oliver! 

First of all, thanks for your reply.

and it worked, I had to make some changes in citect.ini file like server was set to 0 and event name wasn't present in that file. i also had to login trough a user to make that event trigger. All in all I thank you a lot for the help.

[olivier_vallee]

Hi @AutomationGenie 

Thanks for the feedback.

Great to hear you got it working.

Kind regards

Olivier