I am trying to configure a script action on a button so that the following occurs when it is pushed:
- it gets the current value of a nearby numerical field entry box
- it writes that value to the setpoint of an alarm on a tag (the tag path will be dynamically selected using a system of parameters)
I know how to bind an alarm’s setpoint to a memory tag, but I don’t want to go that route because then I would have to create a bunch of new individual memory tags for every setpoint of every alarm. I want to be able to call the setpoint of an alarm directly through an address.
I found this post from a few years ago but I think it’s outdated (system.tag.editTag doesn’t seem to exist anymore)
I’ve tried using writeBlocking to do it, like this:
newvalue = self.getsibling('NumericEntryField').value
newvalue_as_list = [newvalue]
setpointPath_as_list = [{self.view.params.tag_alarm_path}.setpointA]
SP_write = system.tag.writeBlocking(setpointPath_as_list, newvalue_as_list, 5000)
It didn’t throw any debug errors but it didn’t work either.