National Instruments BridgeVIEW How Do You View Alarms and Events?

Chapter 5 Alarms and Events
BridgeVIEW User Manual 5-14 © National Instruments Corporation
There are three techniques for turning event printing on or off:
• You can configure event printing in the Tag Configuration Editor. To
turn on printing, select Configure»Events…. Configure the printer
and set Start printing on system start-up to be TRUE.
• For programmatic control, you can call the Enable Printing VI in the
System palette. With this VI, you can turn event printing on or off
dynamically for all the tags in the system, while the BridgeVIEW
Engine is running.
• The Engine Manager also has a button to turn event printing on or off.
Those with Supervisor or higher-level privileges can access this
button.
Table5-2 provides a description of the printing configuration selections.
How Do You View Alarms and Events?
Event files are ASCII files, and can be read with any text editor. The default
delimiter between the various parameters is a tab character, which makes
viewing the file in a spreadsheet program, such as Excel, convenient.