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Subject: Re: Initial STAT and SEVR for soft ai and ao records
From: Benjamin Franksen <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:18:59 +0100
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 14:40, Marty Kraimer wrote:
> Benjamin Franksen wrote:
> >On Wednesday 16 February 2005 20:42, Marty Kraimer wrote:
> >>If all that is desired to to make the record not be in alarm after
> >>initialization then just set
> >>
> >>    field(SEVR,"NO_ALARM")
> >>    field(STAT,"NO_ALARM")
> >>    field(UDF,"0")
> >>
> >>In the record instance definition.
> >
> >Note that you can leave out SEVR and STAT as these are the default
> >values anyway.
> >
> >However, at least with 3.13.9 this doesn't work. The record (a bo) is
> >still UDF/INVALID after booting.
> >
> >Ben
>
> In both 3.13 and 3.14 dbCommon.dbd has the definitions:
>
>         field(STAT,DBF_MENU) {
>                 prompt("Alarm Status")
>                 special(SPC_NOMOD)
>                 menu(menuAlarmStat)
>                 initial("UDF")
>         }
>         field(SEVR,DBF_MENU) {
>                 prompt("Alarm Severity")
>                 special(SPC_NOMOD)
>                 menu(menuAlarmSevr)
>                 initial("INVALID")
>         }
>
>
>
> Thus the defaults are STAT=UDF and SEVR=INVALID.

Oops. I inferred what I said about the defaults from the output of dbst, which 
threw your STAT/SEVR definitions out of my db file.

Ben

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Re: Initial STAT and SEVR for soft ai and ao records Benjamin Franksen
References:
RE: Initial STAT and SEVR for soft ai and ao records Mark Rivers
Re: Initial STAT and SEVR for soft ai and ao records Benjamin Franksen
Re: Initial STAT and SEVR for soft ai and ao records Marty Kraimer

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