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.
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Display message on what line
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Scroll message
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Print message
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Send message to Slave number
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Wait Time for message
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Clear message automatically
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Repeat message automatically
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Chain message to another
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Energize relay
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Send message to the stack
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Send message time to the stack
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Hide message on display
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Acknowledge message
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Slave message color
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Slave message length
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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