My observations about the bright green background of any AIN block .MEAS or .PNT parameter configured on any graphic or on the detail displays. =20 It is associated with the BADOPT setting in the AIN. The BAD status bit must be imbedded and passed within those parameters anywhere they may be referenced. There seems to be a normal text background color convention that is hidden from the users' view that functions in the following way based on the setting of the BADOPT parameter: If BADOPT =3D 0 and the points BAD STATUS is FALSE but the block is high or low Out of Range the normal text background color is GREEN. If Bad Status is TRUE the color is RED If BADOPT =3D 1 and the points BAD STATUS is TRUE or Low-Out-of-Range is TRUE the normal text background color is RED. If only High-Out-of-Range is TRUE the color is GREEN If BADOPT =3D 2 and the points BAD STATUS is TRUE or High-Out-of-Range = is TRUE the normal text background color is RED. If only Low-Out-of-Range is TRUE the color is GREEN If BADOPT =3D 3 and the points BAD STATUS is TRUE or Low-Out-of-Range is TRUE or if High-Out-of-Range is TRUE the normal text background color is RED. Below is the parameter description for BADOPT BADOPT=20 Bad and Out-of-Range Option is a short integer option that specifies the conditions that set the BAD output true. Values are:=20 0 =3D Bad Status only=20 1 =3D Bad Status or Low Out-of-Range (LOR)=20 2 =3D Bad Status or High Out-of-Range (HOR)=20 3 =3D Bad Status or LOR or HOR.=20 The default value is 3. Bad Status is a Logical OR of bad ECB status (that is, the FBM or FBC itself is bad) and bad channel status (that is, the connected point is bad). If there is no FBM or FBC connection, then Bad Status is considered to exist when MEAS is linked and has bad status. This new normal text background color convention seemed to magically appear when we upgraded from Ver.4.11 to Ver6.2.1 Cheers, Tom VandeWater Control Systems Developer/Analyst Dow Corning Corporation Carrollton, KY USA _______________________________________________________________________ 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