Emerson Process Management 8732 manual Diagnostic Messages, Message Description

Rosemount 8732

Reference Manual

00809-0100-4663, Rev BA January 2010

Diagnostic Messages

The following is a list of messages used by the Handheld Communicator (HC) and their corresponding descriptions.

Variable parameters within the text of a message are indicated with <variable parameter>.

Reference to the name of another message is identified by [another message].

Table H-1. Handheld Communicator Diagnostic Messages

Message	Description
Add item for ALL device types or only for this ONE device type	Asks the user whether the hot key item being added should be added
	for all device types or only for the type of device that is connected.
Command Not Implemented	The connected device does not support this function.
Communication Error	Either a device sends back a response indicating that the message it
	received was unintelligible or the HC cannot understand the response
	from the device.
Configuration memory not compatible with connected device	The configuration stored in memory is incompatible with the device to
	which a transfer has been requested.
Device Busy	The connected device is busy performing another task.
Device Disconnected	Device fails to respond to a command
Device write protected	Device is in write-protect mode Data can not be written
Device write protected – do you still want to shut off?	Device is in write-protect mode – press YES to turn the HC off and lose
	the unsent data.
Display value of variable on hot key menu?	Asks whether the value of the variable should be displayed adjacent to
	its label on the hot key menu if the item being added to the hot key menu
	is a variable.
Download data from configuration memory to device	Prompts user to press SEND softkey to initiate a memory to device
	transfer.
Exceed field width	Indicates that the field width for the current arithmetic variable exceeds
	the device- specified description edit format
Exceed precision	Indicates that the precision for the current arithmetic variable exceeds
	the device- specified description edit form
Ignore next 50 occurrences of status?	Asked after displaying device status – softkey answer determines
	whether next 50 occurrences of device status will be ignored or
	displayed
Illegal character	An invalid character for the variable type was entered.
Illegal date	The day portion of the date is invalid.
Illegal month	The month portion of the date is invalid.
Illegal year	The year portion of the date is invalid.
Incomplete exponent	The exponent of a scientific notation floating point variable is
	incomplete.
Incomplete field	The value entered is not complete for the variable type.
Looking for a device	Polling for multidropped devices at addresses 1–15
Mark as read only variable on hot key menu?	Asks whether the user should be allowed to edit the variable from the
	hot key menu if the item being added to the hot key menu is a variable
No device configuration in configuration memory	There is no configuration saved in memory available to re-configure
	off-line or transfer to a device.
No Device Found	Poll of address zero fails to find a device, or poll of all addresses fails to
	find a device if auto-poll is enabled
No hot key menu available for this device	There is no menu named “hot key” defined in the device description for
	this device.
No off-line devices available	There are no device descriptions available to be used to configure a
	device off-line.
No simulation devices available	There are no device descriptions available to simulate a device.
No UPLOAD_VARIABLES in ddl for this device	There is no menu named “upload_variables” defined in the device
	description for this device – this menu is required for off-line
	configuration.
No Valid Items	The selected menu or edit display contains no valid items.

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