Re: [foxboro] "protect name .PARM" DM/FV command

Although not highly polished, ( push a button and walk away ) I created a VB 
app that sets the protection classes for all of our FV detail displays. The 
basic steps that it does is a convert the files to a .g, reads each line in the 
file looking for a specific string match. Part of the string will contain the 
variable you want to protect and alevel=0. The variables found in the string 
are compared to a protection class definition file that we created which 
contains all the settable parameters and our desired protection level. The app 
modifies the .g file then converts them back to an FDF file. The whole process 
from getting an entirely new set of DD files takes a couple of hours to 
complete. You can then propagate these new DD files. I'm sure the same 
application could be used on Faceplates.
Dwayne Landry
PPG Industries Inc.





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Behalf Of Corey R Clingo
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 8:14 AM
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Subject: Re: [foxboro] "protect name .PARM" DM/FV command

True.  This mechanism is not foolproof, even if it had worked as I 
envisioned/desired.  But it would eliminate 90-95% of the issues, and 
prevent all that typing of loopback connections in situations where 
changes were not desired, but it wouldn't be the end of the world if they 
happened.  I was just salivating for a moment or two at the prospect of 
several lines of "protect name .DONTTOUCHTHIS" lines in an environment 
script to protect a desired list of parameters, rather than a combination 
of locking them, having some enforcer application set them back when they 
changed (for all those settable/non-connectable ones), or d_edit'ing all 
the faceplates and details to control access via protection classes - on 
every system upgrade (but then again I'm toying with the idea of making my 
own, as I find the system-supplied ones lacking in several areas, so maybe 
that last one is not such a big deal).

Corey Clingo
BASF Corporation






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-----Original Message-----
From: Johnson, Alex P (IPS)
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 12:19 AM

The relative picks in some of the faceplates have been configured with
action names.  For example, the OUT relative pick on the PID faceplates
have the name .OUT.  If you call in a PID detail display and issue the
command

pref dmcmd "protect name .OUT"

the relative pick for the .OUT parameter is no longer pickable.
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If a protected element is not "pickable", it would still be "changeable"
by other means, correct? For example, if a display has user-defined
up/down buttons that change the .OUT parameter without a pick, then the
above protection method would not work. Some considerable thought needs
to be invested when designing and building a display if selected (not
global) protection is (or may) be desired.

Brad Wilson
brad.wilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Invensys Systems, Inc
1090 King Georges Post Rd, Suite 204
Edison, NJ  08837
732-874-0087




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