I know you were responding to Terry, but I agree 100% with your concept Tim, and safeguards could easily been built into it. My last reply was just to show how Foxboro had gone backwards in this area for Version 8.x to being worse than Version 3.x. Hope Foxboro is listening... Jack Easley Sr. I&C Technician Luminant Power, Martin Lake Plant Phone 903.836.6273 jack.easley@xxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lowell, Timothy Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 2:12 PM To: 'foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: Re: [foxboro] Software Install failure Terry, What I am talking about in my "even better" comment is a complete re-think of the whole process. It wouldn't be anything similar to what we do now, with an outside application building files and then another application processing (committing) those files. It would all be seamless and integrated. When you click on an interface on a system workstation to add a CP or another workstation or whatever, an underlying process records the change and propagates it to every other box on the Mesh. You could put in a mechanism where you can make one or many changes, and then verify that those changes are what you want and are valid, and then propagate them. It's only a concept at this point, but it's similar to what other controls vendors are doing on their systems. Tim Confidentiality Notice: This email message, including any attachments, contains or may contain confidential information intended only for the addressee. If you are not an intended recipient of this message, be advised that any reading, dissemination, forwarding, printing, copying or other use of this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply message and delete this email message and any attachments from your system. _______________________________________________________________________ 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