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Advantech AE Technical Share Document

Date 2022/ 03 / 20 Related


CODESYS
Category ■ FAQ □ SOP Product
Abstract How to use the alarm in CODESYS
Keyword Alarm、Alarm group、Alarm storage
SR#
Revision History
Date Version Author Reviewer Description
2022/ 03 / 20 V1.0 Tenjin.Lin Owen.Chang CODESYS V3.5 SP15

 Problem Description & Architecture:


This article mainly explains how to use the alarm function in CODESYS. The alarm function can be used
to determine and record when the application is in a critical process state and display it in visualization to
provide comparison confirmation and facilitate follow-up actions.

 Brief Solution - Step by Step:

1 OPEN Codesys IDE

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1.1 After opening the project, right-click Application->Add Object->Add Alarm configuration

1.2 After entering the name, click ADD

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1.3 After the addition is completed, the Alarm configuration will appear in the Device, and the default
Error, Info, Warning, and AlarmStorage will appear in the branches below it for use.

1.4 A new Alarm Class named PartsDeficit will be added later. Right-click on Alarm configuration->Add
Object->Alarm Class.

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1.5 Enter the name PartsDeficit and press ADD.

1.6 After adding, click PartsDeficit and the setting page will appear.

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1.6.1 Priority is the setting priority (0-255) 0 is the highest priority, 255 is the lowest priority, enter 10
here.
Also check the Archive below.

1.6.2 The Acknowledgment method on the right has five modes for confirmation. Here we choose the
REP_ACK mode and check the acknowledge separately option below.

1.6.3 Declare the variable bPartsDeficit as Bool in the main program.

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1.6.4 Continue on the PartsDeficit setting page, the Notification actions notification action field, first
double-click the Action action field, the field has three options: Variable variable, Execute
execution, and Call call. Select the Variable variable here.

For details, please refer to:


https://help.codesys.com/webapp/_cds_obj_alarm_class;product=core_visualization;version=3.5.
17.0

1.6.5 Here we only want to activate the alarm so check Activate and clear the check of Deactivate and
Confirm.

1.6.6 Click ... in the variable grid below to select the variable bPartsDeficit just declared.

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1.6.7 Type TRUE in the grid on the right. After completion, the Details above will also display the
result you just typed.

1.6.8 Next, in the Active activity below, select red for the Background color, and select yellow for the
background color of the Wait for confirmation row below. In this way, in the PartsDeficit
category, the activity will be displayed in red in the visualization, and the unconfirmed ones will
be displayed in red. The deactivation message will be displayed in yellow.

1.7 Configure the alarm group, the Alarm Group named PartsDeficit, right-click on Alarm configuration-
>Add Object->Alarm Group.

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1.7.1 Fill in the name PartsDeficit, and click Add.

1.7.2 After pressing Add, the setting screen will appear, the Textlist text list is set to PartsDeficit, and
the Archiving is set to none.

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1.7.3 Double-click Observation type, there are 7 categories to choose from in this option, namely
Digital, Upper limit, Lower limit, Inside range, Change and Event. Select the category of Digital
here.

For details, please refer to:


https://help.codesys.com/webapp/_cds_obj_alarm_group;product=core_visualization;version=3.
5.17.0

1.7.4 Fill in PartsDeficit in the rear Class category, fill in PartsDeficit at Station 1 in the Message
message, fill in the Min. pend. Time minimum startup time t#5s, and fill in the Latch var 1 fill in
iFuellstand.

1.7.5 Declare iFuellstand:int:=44; in the main program

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1.7.6 Click on the left box of Digital below, select PLC_PRG.bPartsDeficit, and enter TRUE in the
right box, which means that when the variable bPartsDeficit becomes TRUE, iFuellstand will be
printed together.

1.8 Alarm storage, go to Alarm Configuration->AlarmStorage in Device, double click to enter and you
will see the setting page.

1.8.1 The "Subdirectory" subdirectory is left blank and cannot be changed, because its name is
automatically generated. Only when the application name is changed, the generated name will be
automatically changed.

1.8.2 Limit This is to modify the storage space, click NO limit to have no limit.

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2 Right-click on Application->Add Object->Visualization to add a new visualization.

2.1 Click Add

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2.2 Drag Tool BOX->Alarm manager->Alarm table and Alarm banner in the visualization to the canvas.

2.3 In this parameter setting, you can set which Alarm Groups to display, because there is only one this
time, so there is no need to set it (because the default is to display all).

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2.4 At this point Login+RUN, and change the bPartsDeficit status to TRUE, you can see that the two
visualization tools just pulled out will pop up.

 Reference:
CODESYS Online Help

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