Re: [foxboro] That DM to FoxView Conversion Tool

Adam,
   
  The choice of display files locations are user's chjoice.  If you put it 
under /usr/junk it will work.  But you will have to change your top menu bar to 
point it to /us/junk and when you pick the menu, the display file list will 
show up.
   
  /opt/menu is a Invensys offer and it does not mean a customer will have to 
use this.  In the many jobs that I have worked on, I always follow the 
customer's direction as this is more comfortable with them.  I do change the 
top menu bar to map it and some times even have sub-menu bars to point to files 
under the same directory but go deeper.
   
  What I am trying to say is, the customer is king and Invensys has allowed any 
structure.  It the customer old files are under /usr than it will be more 
comfortable for them to see the files are under the same location.
   
  The DM markers are the marker set such as pump, valve etc which many 
customers use for their display instead of making up a symbol for each.  It 
works fine under DM, but FoxView does not have a marker set.  So when you do a 
conversion, the markers will disappear (even though the linkage still exists).  
One must then build a new symbol and move the connections to new symbol. This 
is labor intensive and error prone.
   
  I post the quesion hoping some one out there has worked out a good solution.
   
  I am happy to see that GCconvert will convert all paths (since I have not 
worked with it as yet, my comment is not correct...sorry!).
   
  Joseph Wu
  Dow Chemcial DCS contract support
  
Adam.Pemberton@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
  Joseph
I wasn't aware that one could retain the files in the /usr folder.
Why is /opt/menu a problem? We found, with our limited experience of
FoxView so far, putting them there made life easy.

You can't use GConvert to convert g files to the same location (didn't
consider this possibility). What I suggest is if you want to do this,
have a single mapping from /usr/ to /hello/ or what ever you like, and
when the conversion is finished, rename the hello directory to usr
(after renaming /usr to something else).

I don't know what you mean by "the display file may still retain the old
path names". It's a three stage process. 1) DM (pdf) to g. 2) g to g. 3)
g to fdf. During stage 2, GConvert converts all paths as far as I know.

There is no mechanism to convert the DM Markers in g convert. It only
performs the 3 functions mentioned in the documentation. I confess I
don't know what DM markers are?

Regards
Adam



>-----Original Message-----
>From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>[mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
] On Behalf Of joseph wu
>Sent: Saturday, 28 January 2006 12:23 AM
>To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [foxboro] That DM to FoxView Conversion Tool
>
>Gcconvert is a good program! The comment I have is that the 
>path for the display files are user selectable. You can use 
>/usr/disp if you want in FoxView. /opt/menu turns out not to 
>be a good choice for file location for most plant.
> 
> The reason Invensys suggest to put the user files under the 
>/opt directory is because it is a directory not use as much by 
>the Invensys folks compare to ./usr. (Yes, it is used for 
>/opt/fox/ciocfg etc!).
> 
> If you move the display files to (let say) ./usr/disp and do 
>a dump, you will notice that the display path name is shown as 
>what ever directory it is located.
> 
> Another comment is that the display file may still retain 
>the old path names. A D_EDIT will fix this. I have tried to 
>run a script on converting file path in a whole directory for 
>another customer and it is a lot faster than one file at a time.
> 
> I am curious how do you convert the DM markers (valve, pump 
>etc) to FoxView because it does not have a marker set like DM?
> 
> Joseph Wu
> Dow Chemical DCS contract support

Adam Pemberton
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Lihir Gold Limited
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