Rockwell Automation 9301 Series RSView32 Users Guide - Manual (Page 270)

Configuring events
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Using the Accept and Discard buttons
When you enter information in the editor, the Prev and Next buttons
change to Accept and Discard. Click Accept to save information.
Click Discard to discard information.
Setting up the evaluation interval
To set up the evaluation interval for the event file:
1. On the menu bar, click Setup and then click Event Setup.
The Event Setup dialog box opens.
2. Type a brief description of the event file. This description is for
your information only—it doesn’t appear anywhere else.
For example, if you were creating an event file for a certain area of
your plant, you might type something like “East Wing Assembly
Line” to identify the area.
3. Choose a type of evaluation to specify how often to evaluate
expressions at runtime. When the evaluation interval expires,
RSView32 evaluates the expressions that contain tags with values
that have changed.
To have expressions evaluated as quickly as possible, click
Continuous. To have expressions evaluated at a particular interval,
click Periodic and type a number in the Evaluation Interval field.
You can use fractional seconds. For example, if you type .6, the
expression will be evaluated every six–tenths of a second. If you’re