Alarm print

How can CitectSCADA be configured to print alarms as they appear in the active alarms list?

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  • Hi  ,

    Can you confirm what template you have used in your project?

    With the Situational Awareness templates (SA_Include) there doesn't appear to be a print alarm page button or feature.

    But if you look at the Tab based templates (Tab_Style_Include) there is a print button there which will output the alarm list to html and allow you to print or export. See the Example project for this.

    Another option could be to make use of the alarm log device (see "AlarmDisk" in Include project) which is just a simple text file that should be fairly simple to open/print via cicode.

    Let us know how you get on with this.

    Kind regards

    Olivier

  • Hi!

    I connected my Citect HMI printer (Windows XP) to kiosk Printer via USB port. Now whenever there is an alarm tag shown on the Alarm page on the HMI printer, the alarm taglines are automatically printed on printing paper.

    But the problem here is the first alarm tag line is printed in the first page and then again next alarm line prints on the next page (the remaining space in the first page is empty) and then page cuts ...it continues. It means in one page only one line prints and cuts and then next page only one alarm tagline ...and so on.

    So now what I want is ...I would like to set up the printer in such a way that when FIRST ALARM comes the printer prints the line. That's ok. Then SECOND ALARM should be printed on the second line of the same page instead of printing on second page.

    Could anyone please suggest how to configure the printer in that way?

  • Hi STUART

    sorry...i am not able get your intention what your trying to tell.

  • I don't think that modern, page based printers support the functionality that you are looking for.  Back in the day (20+ years ago) line printers like the one shown could do this.  They were in many ways much simpler devices and barely knew about the pages they were processing so most of the high level functionality had to come from the host, hence they could print one line at a time without trying to interpret too much what they were doing.

  • Hii,

    I also known this not right way log the alarm. But this one of the customer requirement. i think this feature is available in citect Scada, to achieve this we have adjust some of the ini parameter. 

  • I'd be interested to hear what the solution is.

  • This is a really old TN: tn000025524

    But basically says to setup an alarm log device as ASCII_DEV (ASCII File) and specify the file name as LPT1.DOS.

    Not sure how this will go with modern OS and LPT's not existing anymore. But there might be some virtual USB printer to LPT conversion out there?

    Might be worth trying?

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  • This is a really old TN: tn000025524

    But basically says to setup an alarm log device as ASCII_DEV (ASCII File) and specify the file name as LPT1.DOS.

    Not sure how this will go with modern OS and LPT's not existing anymore. But there might be some virtual USB printer to LPT conversion out there?

    Might be worth trying?

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