Rockwell Automation 2711 PANELBUILDER SOFTWARE USER MANUAL - Manual (Page 238)

Information and Alarm Windows
Chapter 7
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To enable any of these four options, move the cursor to it and press Enter.
A menu will pop up allowing you to choose Enable or Disable. Once
Enable has been chosen, a second menu will pop up where you assign an
address. For any of these options to work, it must be enabled and assigned
an address.
Clear Window to PLC Controller—A single input bit must be
assigned to this function. This bit is set to 1 for 3 seconds whenever the
Alarm Window EXIT button is pressed, or whenever all the alarms in
the Alarm window are acknowledged. After 3 seconds, the terminal will
reset this bit to 0.
IMPORTANT: Only the Full Alarm window contains an
Acknowledge Alarm button or Exit button. This Clear Window bit will
only operate when using a Full Alarm window.
Silence Alarms To PLC Controller—When an input bit is assigned to
this function and this option is enabled, this assigned bit is set to 1 for 3
seconds each time the Full Alarm window’s Silence button is pressed.
After 3 seconds, the terminal resets the bit to 0.
IMPORTANT: Only the Full Alarm window contains a Silence button.
The Silence Alarms To PLC Controller bit will only operate when using
a Full Alarm window.
PLC Controlled Clear Window—This option will clear the Alarm
window, the alarm beeper, and the alarm relay, when a 0 to 1 transition
is detected on the assigned PLC address bit.
Subsequent alarm triggers are processed even if the bit remains at 1.
PLC Controlled Silence Alarms—This option works the same way as
the Full Alarm window’s Silence button: it silences the beeper and
deactivates the alarm relay when a 0 to 1 transition is detected on this
bit.
Subsequent alarm triggers are processed even if the bit remains at 1.
Assigning the PLC Address—When you enable any of these options,
the address menu will pop up, with the following selections: