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Rockwell Automation 2706-ND1 DL40 OFFLINE PROGRAMMING SFTWR.USER MANUAL User Manual

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Chapter 5
The Develop Menu

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More about Attributes

The modifiable message attributes you can control from the Message
Attributes menu appear below, along with a brief description of their use.

Display message on what line

Scroll message

Print message

Send message to Slave number

Wait Time for message

Clear message automatically

Repeat message automatically

Chain message to another

Energize relay

Send message to the stack

Send message time to the stack

Hide message on display

Acknowledge message

Slave message color

Slave message length

Echo relay to slave

Display message on what line

Controls where on the DL40 display the message will appear. Options are
different for 2 and 4 line versions.

With 2 line units, choose from

With 4 line units, choose from

All Lines

All Lines

Line 1 Only

Line 1 Only

Line 2 Only

Line 2 Only

Line 3 Only

Line 4 Only

Scroll message

This message attribute determines whether the message will scroll across the
DL40 Message Display. You can activate scrolling only if the Line Usage
attribute (described above) has been set to use a single line. Select

Yes

to

activate or

No

to deactivate.

Print message

If the

Print message

attribute is set to

Yes

, then the DL40 Message Display

will send any triggered message to a printer via the DL40 RS-232 Port. The
message will be printed only once (even if the

Repeat message