Simple version: has anyone ever gotten this to work? Longer version: I came across this while looking for something else in the docs, and thought, how could I not have seen this before? It would solve, or at least mitigate, a great deal of issues for me (e.g., all those parameters that are settable but not connectable, and we don't want people to be able to set them). So I tried the following: pref -DMNAME DMCMD "protect name .HLGP" and called up a detail display. Unfortunately, it still happily let me change the hi/lo alarm destination. I then did pref -DMNAME DMCMD "protect all", and it no longer let me select it, so my pref was working. Am I doing something wrong? Or is this going to be a "new feature" in Foxview 12? Corey Clingo BASF Corporation _______________________________________________________________________ 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