Dear People,

I need a way to link a message number (alarm / warning etc.) to the actual message text. I can do this by making and maintaining a stand alone text file where I put the message text and I can reference them there. But I see the problem coming that at some point a new alarm will be added to the alarm logger and the separate text file will be forgotten.

Is there a way to query the message text from C script. For example, I know the message number is 100 and I need the text that is assigned to alarm number 100 in the alarm logging settings (for example: Airpressure low). Surely Siemens must store this data somewhere as well. Maybe in an database or some form of xml file?

Thank you in advance!

Hello S.Ritsma

WinCC stores this information in the configurtion database.

In the table dbo.MSMsgs there are the alarm numbers and the text is normaly in column TB1

There is an ID of the Textlibrary. The Text Library entries are in table dbo.TXTTable.

perhaps this helps

Bye Murof

Dear Murof,

Thank you for your reply, and yes it helps.