Send ASCII Form

(Available with Order Execution Mgt.)

Description

Send ASCII Form broadcasts the file generated by the Get ASCII Form Broadcast function block to the selected device group.

Note: Send ASCII Form is similar to the Send WYSIWYG Form and Send Form To Device Broadcast function blocks.  Send ASCII Form is used exclusively with ASCII forms.

Parameters

This function block has the following parameters:

Parameter

Description

Device Group

Device group to which Broadcast sends the data.

Status Point ID

Point to use to get the statuses of broadcast. This point can be used in CIMPLICITY CimView screens for monitoring purposes.

The user must use a Point Array, as follows.

 

Type

STRING20

 

Number of elements

Greater than 2 times the maximum number of items that may be broadcast at a time for proper results.

 

The statuses that are updated to this status point are:

  1. Item Id Broadcast

  2. Success/Failure Of Broadcast.

 

 

1

Success

 

 

0

Failure

More information

BCO function block list.