Bridge User Manual

Contents
BridgeVIEW User Manual viii © National Instruments Corporation
Alarms................................................................................................................. 3-31
How Do You Configure Alarms for a Tag? ......................................... 3-34
Analog Tags ...........................................................................3-34
Discrete Tags..........................................................................3-35
Bit Array Tags........................................................................3-35
String Tags .............................................................................3-36
What Is Alarm Deadband on Analog Tags?......................................... 3-36
How Do You Keep an Alarm Unacknowledged
after the Alarm Returns to Normal? .................................................. 3-37
Auto Ack on Normal..............................................................3-37
User Must Ack .......................................................................3-38
How Do You Configure Other Engine Parameters? ......................................................... 3-44
How Do You Turn on Historical and Event Logging at Startup?....................... 3-44
How Do You Set the File Paths for Historical and Events Files?....................... 3-44
How Do You Configure Shifts?.......................................................................... 3-44
How Do You Configure Engine Parameters?..................................................... 3-44
How Do You Launch Server Configuration Utilities
from the Tag Configuration Editor?................................................................. 3-46
How Do You Access or Change Tag Configuration Information
in Your Application? ...................................................................................................... 3-46
Chapter 4
Human Machine Interface
What Is an HMI? .................................................................................................................4-1
How Do You Build an HMI? .............................................................................................. 4-2
Front Panel Objects............................................................................................... 4-3
HMI G Wizard ...................................................................................................... 4-3
Generate the Block Diagram .................................................................. 4-8
Front Panel Object and Wizard Subdiagram Association ...................... 4-8
How Do You Customize Front Panel Objects? .................................................. 4-12
Control Editor....................................................................................... 4-12
Importing Graphics............................................................................... 4-13
How Do You Configure Front Panel
Objects Programmatically?................................................................ 4-15
How Do You Monitor and Control Tags?......................................................................... 4-16
Tag Data Type..................................................................................................... 4-17
Tags VIs and Alarms and Events VIs................................................................. 4-20
How Do the Tags, and Alarms and Events VIs
Affect Startup/Shutdown?.................................................................. 4-24