Yes, we have to. Our current operational philosophy requires access to more parameters than our graphics-building folks have time to put custom displays in for. If graphics were only built by those that had configurator access, and those same folks were dedicated to DCS maintenance, we could probably get around this by controlling graphic access, but that is not the case in my plants. Corey Clingo BASF Corporation brad.s.wilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent by: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 09/05/2006 10:28 AM Please respond to foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx cc Subject Re: [foxboro] Shortahd for loopback connections (was:Inhibit alarms; NOT) I presume that you must allow user access to the default block displays. I have taken away the ability of the operators to access the defaults, so connecting the parameters back onto themselves is not an issue. The few parameters that I need the operators to access are available through custom displays or overlays. Brad Wilson Process Control Engineer ExxonMobil Chemical Co Edison Synthetics Plant 732-321-6115 732-321-6177 fax Brad.S.Wilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________________________________ 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