FS-8700-82 Carrier DataLink

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4.4.2.Driver Related Map Descriptor Parameters

 

Column

 

 

Function

 

 

Legal Values

 

 

Title

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Node_Name

 

Name of Node to fetch data from

 

One of the node names

 

 

 

specified in “Client Node

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Descriptor” above

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Data type. This parameter is not required

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

except when defining Map Descriptors

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

which write DOW (Day of Week) and

-

 

 

 

 

 

Time value to the Carrier devices. When

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Data_Type

 

a write Map Descriptor checks the data

 

Occupancy_Time

 

 

 

 

type it uses the information to convert the

 

Occupancy_DOW

 

 

 

 

value extracted from the FieldServer’s

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Data Arrays into a suitable format for a

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

write. Refer to Section 4.4.7.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Length of Map Descriptor. When reading

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

a compete table, set the length to the

 

 

 

 

Length

 

maximum number of data values you

 

1 – 1000

 

 

want stored. Additional information on the

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

length parameter is provided in Appendix

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A.5.

 

 

 

 

Address

 

This commonly used parameter is not required for this driver.

 

 

 

 

The name of the table to be polled, e.g.

 

Only ASCII characters are

 

 

 

 

DISPLAY. Some system elements have

 

 

 

 

 

multiple instances of the same table

 

permitted.

 

 

 

 

name. For example, the Terminal System

 

 

 

 

Table_Name

 

Manager has 64 Temperature Zone

 

When using the table

 

 

configuration tables named TZONE1

 

name parameter to specify

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

though TZONE64. These tables are

 

a primary and secondary

 

 

 

 

accessed by using both the primary &

 

table, leave a single space

 

 

 

 

secondary table names, e.g. ‘TZCONF

 

between the two names.

 

 

 

 

TZONE1’

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Only ASCII characters are

 

 

 

 

If you wish to read the whole table, leave

 

permitted. Field names

 

Field_Name*

 

the field name blank or specify

 

never contain spaces.

 

 

 

 

‘EVERYTHING’.

 

They may not be longer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

than 10 characters long.

 

Store_As*

 

Use the Ascii or AsciiLog format when you

 

Ascii, AsciiLog, Values

 

 

are discovering the variables contained in

 

 

 

 

 

a table by reading a table. Refer to 1.1

 

 

 

4.4.3.Timing Parameters

Column Title

Function

Legal Values

Scan_Interval

Rate at which data is polled

>0.1s

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