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I am trying to display an Error String from a Festo FB being used in my Omron PLC to an Alarm Message or General Message Display....cannot figure out how to show a message with an Embedded Variable?

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I am assuming you are using an NA series HMI.

To the best of my knowledge, you can't include a variable in the Message or Details fields of the NA series alarms.

What you can do is go to the properties of the alarm, and it gives you a spot for "Additional Information". This can be a variable value (Boolean, Numeric or String), but shows as a separate column in the alarm viewer. What I have done in the past is just used a generic message in the Message column  (ie. Motor Fault - Check this and that), and then used a string variable (max string length is 32) in additional information to indicate what the actual equipment was (ie. Conveyor 1). The column can be added, rearranged and renamed in the column settings of the alarm viewer object.

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4 hours ago, photovoltaic said:

To further what @BE said, the syntax for this is {%%} for where you want to embed the variable in your message. 

Gee, learn something new every day.......think I am going to have to use that sometime 😁

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