Hi Alex, thanks for the tips. Can you point me to a manual on oma & rsom because I'm not familiar with it and there don't seem to be any manuals on our system in /opt/fox/bin/remote/tools, couldn't find anything on GPS I already used pdfpack -r and optimize but that didn't solve it. The tags are ok, all tags are updating when the sequence is running. When I close the display and open it again the fields are smurfed again until the sequence IO0001 changes again....It's the only display behaving strange and it started without any reason it seems..... Thanks & rgds, Dirk Pauwels - DCS/MOC coordinator Engineering dept. Hexion Specialty Chemicals E mail: dirk.pauwels@xxxxxxxxxx T. +32.(0)3.570.95.97 F. +32.(0)3.570.16.09 Mob. +32.(0)497.428.300 "Johnson, Alex P \(IPS\)" <alex.johnson@ips To .invensys.com> <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: cc foxboro-bounce@fr eelists.org Subject Re: [foxboro] Fw: smurfing String's 17/01/2008 13:38 Please respond to foxboro@freelists .org Dirk, I'd use oma to check the status bits on the CBPs to see if they match what the display is telling you. If oma shows OOS then the issue is in the CP. I doubt that this will be the case, but you should check it. If oma shows that the status bits are good and FV indicates that they are not, the problem is likely to be: 1) A bad connection in the graphic 2) A bad OM table in the graphic 3) CP communication limitations Use dedit's verify option to check the tags. Use pdf_pack for DM or fdf_g and g_fdf for FV to clear out the OM table. Check the CP's communication capabilities with rsom. I hope this helps. Regards, Alex Johnson Invensys Systems, Inc. 10900 Equity Drive Houston, TX 77041 713.329.8472 (voice) 713.329.1700 (fax) 713.329.1600 (switchboard) alex.johnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of dirk.pauwels@xxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 3:30 PM To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [foxboro] Fw: smurfing String's Hi List, I have a couple of DM displays containing strings/discretes and IO000#'s from sequences. These strings are configured as follows: C:B.IO0001 Continuous selected Connected to text Parameter .SN0001 the discretes are C:B.IO0001 lowest state 0 number of states 60 0 =3D text1 1 =3D text2 etc.... This setup works on all displays except on 1 or 2, where all of the string values connected to this IO0001 are smurfed. They show the correct strings/text but the field background is blue. When I refresh the display a couple of times the smurfing sometimes disapears, but not always. When I set the IO0001 to another value (this IO0001 is the trigger for the string value or text to be updated) the smurfing disapears also. I've been using this setup for the last 12 years or so and it always worked, but a couple of days ago the smurfing problem started to appear, strangly enough always on the same displays. Any ideas on how to avoid this smurfing? Thanks & Rgds, Dirk Pauwels - DCS/MOC coordinator Engineering dept. Hexion Specialty Chemicals E mail: dirk.pauwels@xxxxxxxxxx T. +32.(0)3.570.95.97 F. +32.(0)3.570.16.09 Mob. +32.(0)497.428.300 = = _______________________________________________________________________ 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. 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