Target Groups Of Messages; Message Lists In Process Mode - Siemens SIMATIC PCS 7 Service Manual

6.5.3

Target groups of messages

Target groups
Message type
Operator input messages
Process messages
Operational messages
Process control messages
System messages
6.5.4

Message lists in process mode

Message lists
PCS 7 places incoming messages in message lists. The message is available in different
message lists, depending on the event source and message status.
The following messages lists are available by default. You can modify these standard message
lists or create additional message lists.
Default message lists
List
Incoming alarm list The incoming message list contains the messages which require acknowledg‐
Acknowledged
alarm list
Outgoing alarm list The outgoing message list contains the messages flagged as "Outgoing". Those
Journal list
Process control list The process control list provides a view of the message archive, filtered according
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ment, however, which are still pending acknowledgment or deactivation.
The acknowledged message list contains the acknowledged process messages.
messages are no longer active, but are not yet acknowledged.
The history list provides a view of the message archive which contains all mes‐
sages, except the operator log.
to process messages (and comparable ones).
Example: Rack failure
Process alarms are also displayed in the following lists:
● Incoming alarm list
● Acknowledged alarm list
● Outgoing alarm list
● Journal list
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