Operations

The DeltaV Operate Batch Controls, DeltaV Live Batch Controls, and the Batch Operator Interface provide operators with screens that allow them to do the following (if appropriate permissions have been granted):

  • Create batches from the list of recipes assigned to a Batch Executive

  • Control and monitor recipe-based batches through the use of Start, Hold, Restart, Stop, and Abort commands

  • Provide advanced batch control (change the mode of a batch, bind equipment to a recipe, scale a recipe, or run a segment of a recipe)

  • Acquire and release batch resources and monitor resource arbitration

  • Control and monitor individual phases

  • Respond to prompts for parameter input (depending upon how the phases are defined)

  • View event logs of current or past batches

  • Monitor, acknowledge, and clear batch-related alarms

Using the DeltaV Operate or DeltaV Live Batch List control, the operator can sort and filter the batch list control online. Sort and filter settings are maintained for up to five batch list controls on each operator workstation, until the operator application is closed . Sort and filter settings are specific to each display. For displays with multiple batch list controls, you must modify the configure batch list control variables prior to runtime.

Run-time sorting of the batch list is accomplished by selecting the column heading and either right clicking for the context menu or double clicking the heading. An arrow indicates the sort order (ascending or descending).

Filters are additive to the configured or previous filter. That is, a batch list control can have filtering configured prior to runtime access. Any filters applied by the operator at runtime are added to the configured filters. Each added filter further reduces the number of batches listed. Columns with run-time filters added are marked with an asterisk (*).

To perform run-time filtering of the batch list:
  1. Right-cliick on a row in the batch list to open the context menu.
  2. Select the criterion for filtering.

For both sorting and filtering, the operator can reset the settings from the context menu (right-click a row to access the context menu).

Configuring unique variables for run-time sort and filter persistence.

For any display that has multiple batch list controls (and each batch list has their own runtime sort setting), or for when multiple batch pictures containing batch list controls are open on multiple monitors, the user needs to modify the display's script to specify the variable, frsVariableSetAssociatedWithControl (restricted to 1 through 4, inclusive) associated with each batch list control.

At runtime, the control's sort and filter information is then stored in \ControlX key in the registry instead of \ControlDefault key (where "X" corresponds to the variable set specified by the user). You can find this variable in the _OnInitializeControlVariables() method in the object's script (in configure mode, right click the object and select Edit Script).

Configuring the frsVariableSetAssociatedWithControl with a unique (up to 4) number prevents the run-time sort and filter persistence from affecting other batch list controls.