General Guidelines For Answering An Action Request; Action Requests During Osx Station Synchronization - Siemens SIMATIC PCS 7 OSx Operator's Manual

General Guidelines
for Answering an
Action Request
Action Requests
during OSx Station
Synchronization
SIMATIC PCS 7 OSx 4.1.2 Operator
Certain general guidelines apply to answering all action requests:
• The system must be in the Operate state.
• To select an action request, click the action request icon in the lower
right corner of the screen.
• The station displays only one action request at a time. To view other
requests, click
Once you initiate an answer, the
•
• To cancel an answer, select
select the action request icon again.
When the database is locked during OSx station synchronization, the
operator needs to be aware of the following points concerning action
requests.
• During OSx station synchronization, the operator cannot access action
requests from any station. If an operator attempts to access an action
request while the database is locked, the system displays a message
indicating that the summary cannot be accessed while the database is
locked.
If an operator has displayed the summary before the system locks the
database, and then pressed the
commit the answer until after the database is unlocked. The system
does not process any further action request selections until after it
unlocks the database.
• The action request button appears on all OSx stations except the
primary and the station that is synchronizing.
• The action request button appears on the primary for new alarms and
action requests after the system unlocks the database.
or to select the next or previous action request
and
. To see the request again, you must
Dismiss
button, the system does not
Commit
buttons are desensitized.
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Action Requests
.