Applies To:
  • CitectSCADA
  • Citect Facilities Scheduler Versions

Summary:
I am using Time Scheduler in my Citect system and am following the help documentation on setting up IDC. I have come across some citect.ini parameters relating to Time Scheduler which I cannot find information on:

[TMSCHED]
FilterMask=0
FilterIODevice=

What is the purpose of these parameters?

 

Solution:

These parameters allow changing the displayed list of variables when creating Time Scheduler programs.

[TMSCHED]FilterMask=0 (default)
This parameter will display the filter list when FilterMask is 0. The user will need to enter tags manually if it is set to 1.

[TMSCHED]FilterIODevice=
This parameter will allow you to filter the displayed list by IO device configured in your system. When IO device names listed here their associated variable tags will not be displayed in Time Scheduler. Device names are separated by semi-colons (;).

For example, I am running the Facilities example project and there are 7 devices configured in this project:
MEMORY_PLC,
DISK_PLC,
ALARM_TAGS,
Crane_PLC,
ProcLineDisk,
SteelMillDisk,
FacilitiesDisk

When I have set the parameters to the following:
[TMSCHED]
FilterMask=0
FilterIODevice=

I will see a complete list of variable tags in my project:




Once I change my parameters to filter all IO devices except for MEMORY_PLC:

[TMSCHED]
FilterMask=1
FilterIODevice=DISK_PLC;ALARM_TAGS;Crane_PLC;ProcLineDisk;SteelMillDisk;FacilitiesDisk

The listed tags will now be filtered to show all variable tags from MEMORY_PLC device only.


Tips:
- Even if you have these parameters set on the IO server you will still be able to filter the variable tag list separately on the IDC client. For IDC clients the citect.ini file resides in the <Citect Installation Directory>\IDC\bin directory.
- CtTimeScheduler.ini needs to be moved into the Windows directory of the IDC client to run Time Scheduler.
- It is necessary to have a copy of the citect.ini file in the Windows directory to run the Time Scheduler Configuration program.

 

Keywords:
Time Scheduler, IDC, Filtering Tags  

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