Make sure you're creating the block in the continuous control section of the compound. (That's the error message you would get if you tried to place a continuous type block in a sequence block section.) Greg Hurwitt BASF Freeport foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 10/29/2008 10:18:26 AM: > In a message dated 10/29/2008 01:04:37 Central Daylight Time, > foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: > foxboro Digest > Dear List, > > I had a weird problem come up. I am configuring blocks for new level > transmitters that use Hart protocol. This obviously requires RIN > blocks to read in > the values. The weird thing is I cannot copy a RIN block into a particular > CP's compound, nor create one from scratch. The message I get is: "Block > Type Failed". This is on a Unix/Solaris system, and while we just > put in a new > engineering station, it doesn't work on any of the legacy machines,either. > I can create/copy RINs from/to other CP's, and the CP I'm trying to work > with is not new - it has had an operating unit on it for years. Any ideas? > > > > RGC _______________________________________________________________________ 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