Jerry, You can add an extension to the sequence block User Label reference to examine the quality status (i.e. ".BAD", ".OOS", ".ERROR", etc) of the retrieved value. Check out the B0193AV Chapter 8 Sequence Logic reference. If the retrieved status is BAD (or otherwise not as you need it...), you can write a simple check to not store the new value and retain the previous good value. Regards, Doug Lloyd DGL Controls -----Original Message----- From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jerry Hidahl Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 4:09 PM To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [foxboro] Bad Value Status and HLBL Hi, Everyone. I've got a problem where a sequence program (HLBL) is getting an external real value from a SWCH block storing it to a dependent block parameter. The value includes error status which is also being stored. That's okay, so far. The problems occur when a host program, the IADriver task for FoxBatch (original version) attempts to read the occasional bad value and fails. I need to find a way to detect the error status of the value within the sequence program, and either strip it off or just avoid assigning the value. I've looked through the documentation available to me and found no clues. Does anyone out there have any ideas for detecting error status in real values within a sequence program? Jerry Hidahl Huntsman Corp. Port Neches, TX _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave