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Configuring Messages
16.3 CPU-Oriented Message Configuration
Programming with STEP 7
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Transferring Configuration Data
• Transfer the configured data to the WinCC database (via the AS-OS connection configuration)
or the ProTool database.
16.3.2.2 How to Edit Block-Related Messages (CPU-Oriented)
1. Select a message block, and then select the menu command Edit > Special Object
Properties > Message to call message configuration.
2. Enter your required text in the "Default Texts" and "Additional Texts" columns.
You can also click on the "More" button and enter your required text (with line breaks) in the
"Default Texts" and "Additional Texts" dialog boxes.
Result: You have created a standard message.
Note
If texts and attributes for an instance are displayed in green, this means the following: these texts and
attributes are still as they were configured in the message type. They have not been changed at the
instance.
16.3.2.3 How to Configure PCS 7 Messages (CPU-Oriented)
For editing message types and messages to be output on WinCC display devices (as of V6.0), the
PCS7 message configuration function in STEP 7 provides a user-friendly method of:
• Simplifying the configuration of display devices
• Simplifying the input of attributes and texts for messages
• Ensuring that messages are standardized.
Opening the PCS7 Message Configuration Function
1. In SIMATIC Manager, select the block (FB or DB) whose message texts you want to edit.
Select the menu command Edit > Object Properties to open the dialog box for entering
system attributes.
2. In the table shown, enter the system attribute "S7_alarm_ui" and the value: "1" (the value 0
disables the PCS7 message configuration tool). Property parameters can be set in
LAD/STL/FBD. DBs generated afterwards and assigned to the corresponding FBs take on
these settings and can be switched using their own attribute settings, independently of their
message type (FB).
Note: A syntax check is performed when you enter the system attributes. Faulty entries are
highlighted in red.
3. Exit the dialog box with "OK."
4. Select the menu command Edit > Special Object Properties > Message
Result: The "PCS7 Message Configuration" dialog box is opened.