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APF Engineering Tool
4.4 "Settings" dialog
"Archive management" tab
In the "Archive management" tab, you can find information and settings for the "Archive
management" APF module.
The "Archive management" tab consists of the following areas:
● Archive names
This area shows the pre-assigned user archives in which the archive management data
are saved.
The names of the user archives are pre-assigned and cannot be edited.
● Display of each first alarm logging ID for
– Archiving messages
– Error messages
● Use MES
You can use this check box to specify whether an MES is used.
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Area
Group archive
Value archive
Archiving archive
Note
For information on importing APF messages in Alarm Logging, refer to "Advanced
Process Functions (APF) Installation and Configuration".
User archive
FB_ARCHGROUP
FB_ARCHVALUE
FB_ARCHIVING
Advanced Process Functions Engineering Manual
Explanation
Definition of the archive groups
Definition of the archive values
Archiving of the archive data records
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