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Alarm history in NB Designer

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I would like to have an "Alarm History" page showing historical alarms with timestamps for time generated/acknowledged/cleared. Like this (ex from web, not my work):

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 This is a fairly common feature but I do not see an out-of-the-box solution in NB designer. I have played around with the "Event History," "Alarm Display," and "Event Display" and none seem to fit. I feel like I'm supposed to make "Event History" work for my purposes, but it's pretty confusing for me. The manual could be better.

Any example of, or guidance for implementing an alarm history in NB,  even if not exactly like I want, will be greatly appreciated!

Thank you!

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Excellent! You saved the day again, Michael! Thank you!

I thought I had tried everything. "Event?" = [Alarm History] Really? That's wasn't even on my list of things to try.

I'm starting think maybe I should have attended some vendor training before diving into NB. Other Omron stuff was more intuitive.

 

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I think you will find this is coming out of Japan and not Europe? Or another manufacturers product re-badged? Someone will correct me if I am wrong.

I have also been told Sysmac Studio is from Japan as well - hate it - love CX-Programmer and CX-Suite - it is my understanding that came from Europe.

I remember other Japanese software that I refused to use - SSS - horrible! Used to use CAPS from the US - brilliant.

Then Syswin was brilliant but I do not know from whence that came.

It appears the Japanese think differently to the rest of the world? LOL

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1 hour ago, BobB said:

I think you will find this is coming out of Japan and not Europe? Or another manufacturers product re-badged? Someone will correct me if I am wrong.

I have also been told Sysmac Studio is from Japan as well - hate it - love CX-Programmer and CX-Suite - it is my understanding that came from Europe.

I remember other Japanese software that I refused to use - SSS - horrible! Used to use CAPS from the US - brilliant.

Then Syswin was brilliant but I do not know from whence that came.

It appears the Japanese think differently to the rest of the world? LOL

NB is "that kind of product", if you know what I mean...

As for Sysmac, it was now under Japan for continuos development, but the original release was from Europe I believe.

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Yep innoaloe - rubbish! And that is from a huge Omron fan! Sysmac Studio is rubbish for mine as well! Sticking with the old stuff - saves me heaps of time. I program by way of I/O numbers not useless, stupid symbols. Takes way too long - fast and furious here. Can make or lose a lot of money writing software - CX-One is brilliant - write software really quickly. I program via keyboard not drop down rubbish. Grew up with PLCs in the 1980s when there was a keyboard on the front of the Omron sequencer! Way back. And then there were very expensive EPROM burners and the like and even a very expensive printer interface module. The new stuff is hard to work with - getting like Schneider - impossible. Must be getting old - the new stuff is just too hard.

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9 hours ago, BobB said:

I think you will find this is coming out of Japan and not Europe? It appears the Japanese think differently to the rest of the world? LOL

Yes I agree. I devoted a lot of time in the manufacturing plant where I cut my teeth, pondering to what extent cultural differences affect our logic and what we find intuitive. Most of the machines in that plant were from the '60s, and were a mixture of German, Austrian, American, and French machines. As a noob I picked up ladder diagrams very easily with no real training, but the old European physical relay logic prints were something that took me a while to grasp. I kept telling myself "think like a German." Siemens is another example. Maybe for a German it's totally intuitive. For me, the time I would have to invest into learning where they've hidden everything probably wouldn't pay off, unless I was to groom myself into a "Siemens Specialist" and do only Siemens for a living, so I stay away.

I think my American upbringing naturally led me to find Allen Bradley and Ladder Logic more intuitive than Siemens and IEC drawings - in some way that I don't fully understand. I can't put my finger on it, but there's definitely something to this. 

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