Operating Instructions

Chapter 4 – Configuring Groups, Shared Points, and Statistics
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• Quality Pass-Through—If you want the OPC quality (GOOD, BAD, UNCERTAIN) of the
input OPC Item to be written to an output item, select the Write OPC Qualities to this item
checkbox, and then type the location and name of the OPC item that will hold the quality.
• Action—If you want to assign an action to the shared point, select the type from the Action Type
list. Actions are triggered when a value is written to the shared point.
5. Click OK to close the Shared Point Properties dialog box.
6. Click
to save the changed information.
Removing Shared Points
To remove a shared point from a group, do the following steps:
1. In the Data Manager Groups section, click the group that has the point you want to remove.
Information for all the points in that group appear in the area to the right.
2. Click the point that you want to remove, and then click
.
A message box prompts you to confirm the removal.
3. Click OK.
4. To save the change, click
.
Adding and Removing Statistics
Adding Statistics
To add a statistic, do the following steps:
1. Click
.
The Configure Statistics dialog box opens.
2. Enter information for the following fields:
• Type of Statistic—Select the statistic type that you want from the list. Table 6 describes the
available types.
Table 6. Statistic Types.
Type Description
GROUPREADS Total number of reads, such as updates, to a group.
GROUPREADERRS Total number of read errors (BAD quality updates) by [to?] a group.
GROUPWRITES Total number of writes from a group.
GROUPWRITEERRS Total number of write errors (BAD quality writes) by a group.
POINTREADS Total number of reads, such as updates, to a point.
POINTREADERRS Total number of read errors (BAD quality updates) to a point.
POINTWRITES Total number of writes from an OPC Data Manager point.