Format – greater than 1000 characters

[WayneS]

Greetings

Is it possible to have a format with more than 1000 characters? I have some registers whose values can be 0-600 and each value represents a different status – e.g.

RFI Overcurrent Persistent = 252
Voltage difference exceeded = 253
VDC not reached = 254
Battery open detection = 255

Using enum format I quickly hit the 1000 character limit

thanks

[manjey73]

Wow. I didn’t expect that there could be so many enumerations. I used Text in SVG when I had an enumeration with omissions in the values. And I used dynamic drawings and a collection to control the output, respectively.

The situation is a little different, but this is how you can work around this problem.

[Mikhail]

Hello,
You could manually edit Format.xml in a text editor, e.g. Notepad++.
Then reload the project or configuration database.

[Mikhail]

The string length is limited by the Administrator application. Actual length can be bigger.

[WayneS]

Thank you for the replies. The dynamic drawings/collection is a good option, albeit alot of work. I will try editing the format.xml and see how it goes. This should be relatively easy as I have the values in a spreadsheet. Incidentally I have mutiple registers with different meanings/text.

regards Wayne

[WayneS]

Thanks all, Editing the format.xml in notepad++ worked 100%. I have now have some formats of 5000 characters long. I used excel and notepad to create the format and place in format.xml, then reloaded the application and downloaded it to test.

regards

Wayne

[Mikhail]

Thank you for the update.
Note that in the Format column, it’s possible to write one value per line without semicolons. It may be more comfortable to edit.

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