WinCC Professional V13 SP1 – Simple Sample: Discrete Alarm – Alarm text filter

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Description:

The WinCC Professional Alarms Control has already a very nice tool that allow to configure static (offline) and dynamic (online) filters for alarms. Despite of it, in some applications, it should interesting to filter alarm text by scripting.

In this simple sample, by clicking on button (whit or without the help of filling a IO field) just alarms that contain a specific key text in your text definition are showed.

This concept could be used all for other filters (for example, class). See notes and references.

Requirements:

WinCC Professional V13 SP1.

Project with a minimum configuration (stop - See references “WinCC Professional V13 SP1 – Simple Sample: Discrete Alarm” https://support.industry.siemens.com/tf/br/en/posts/135058/).

Configuration main steps:

• Open a screen

• Create a button

• Configure in button click event the follow script:

Sub OnClick(ByVal item)

Dim aaa

'create reference to AlarmControl

Set aaa = ScreenItems("Alarm view_1")

aaa.MsgFilterSQL = "TEXT1 LIKE 'Alarm 0 active'"

End Sub

Notes:

• The text "Alarm view_1" should be adapted to Alarm Control name (Properties → Miscellaneous) to be filtered

• The text "TEXT1 LIKE 'Alarm 0 active'" should be adapted to the filter key.

Examples:

"TEXT1 LIKE 'Alarm 0 active'" = Alarm text should match with 'Alarm 0 active'

"TEXT1 LIKE 'Alarm 0*'" = Alarm text should starts with 'Alarm 0'

"TEXT1 LIKE '*0*'" = Alarm text should have '0' in the text

"TEXT1 LIKE 'Alarm 0 active' or "TEXT1 LIKE 'Alarm 1 active'" = Alarm text should match with 'Alarm 1 active'" or with 'Alarm 1active'

etc.

References:

Manual

WinCC Professional V13.0

https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/br/pt/view/92323076/en

Online helps system

WinCC Professional V13.0 SP1

https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/br/pt/view/109096785/en

FAQ

Despite of made by WinCC V6, this FAQ gives a guide to configure alarm filters based on C Scripting for different keys (Class, text, etc.).

How do you use the "MsgFilterSQL" property of the WinCC Alarm Control in order

employ an SQL statement to filter the messages to be displayed?

https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/br/pt/view/5668269/en

Which VBS information and VBS programming tools are there in WinCC (TIA Portal)?

https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/br/pt/view/59885894/en

Tips and tricks for creating scripts in WinCC (TIA Portal)

https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/br/pt/view/57132412/en

How do you set a filter to 2 or more areas in a WinCC message window?

https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/br/en/view/109478866

Project:

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