Equipment Documentation

Hi Michael

Check out "Graphics Builder > Dynamic Associations" in the help.

Not sure I am seeing this in here.
in Studio, Under Equipment>Runtime Parameters there are columns for cluster, Equipment,Name,Value (etc)
Where are these parameters used?
Same question for Equipment>References, in addition to the Cluster vs. the Referenced cluster.

All I am seeing in the dynamic associations is the genie (%..%) and the Supergenie (?...?) syntaxes.

Are these references the curly bracket names ({....})in the equipment?

Hi Michael,

The Runtime Equipment Parameters allow you to associate parameters with your equipment and access their values at runtime. The values of which can be static or from a tag / equip.item reference (controlled by the IsTag property). i.e. if you had a parameter that binds to a tag somewhere else in the system, and thus you want to return the value of that tag through your equipment runtime parameter, then you would set to TRUE)

There are a variety of functions that are used with them:

- AssEquipParameters which will create super genie associations or each of the equipment's parameters allowing you to access these values using super genie access functions e.g. AssGetProperty
- EquipGetParameter which will allow you to retrieve the value of one of the parameters

The workspace uses them for PLC based alarm limits (see System Projects Reference > Situational Awareness System Projects > Situational Awareness Library Project > Configure PLC Limits with Equipment)
And also for interlocks (See Situational Awareness Projects > Configure Your Project > Configure Interlocks)
If you are interested to see how those work, you can do a search for those functions within SA_Include.

The Ass* functions come in handy if you were displaying a popup or a page in a pinned window that represents a single piece of equipment and you wanted quick access to its parameter values to use within text elements or other animation expressions.


bradley