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1. #6 Michael
   2009-09-3020:34:43 SourceForge disabled Wiki pages. :( I have just posted this roadmap to the forum. You could look at it there.
2. #5 budtse
   2009-09-3019:06:29 The link to the wiki seems to be broken. Is it still online ?
3. #4 Alexey Dovgan
   2009-03-0206:21:30 Hi Dave.
   Thank you for yor noticies. We try to take into account your wishes in nearest releasest.
   On points.
   1 Math channels. at this time we are implement scripting features for simulator plugin Any simulating channel can include script on Python which can operate with channel's properties, make math calculation and many other. We whant to expand this functionality on other plugins, and currently working on this feature.
   2 Alarms.
   We will implement alarms as in scada Wizcon, you can download it from ftp.wizcon.com and try it. Any alarm is entity "event" which can cause by defined condition. As example - if you need alarm at low set point - you must define one alarm with condition ProcessChannel.Value
4. #3 Dave Batson
   2009-03-0113:46:39 Text and background should be able to have its color changed. This is a common feature to draw the attention of an operator to a problem. Also some form of flashing text and/or background should be available to the confuration.
5. #2 Dave
   2009-02-2820:34:09 I noticed there is no facilities on your road map for alarms. I would like to see a "modularized" alarm management system that you can attach any number of alarms to a channel of data or calculation, The alarms would need a logging function for historical revue.
   
   The reason for "any number" of alarms is that I ran into a situation recently, where not only did we need the standard Deviation, High/Low, High-High/Low-Low and change of state alarms, but we needed to have "Quality" alarms in which a single data point needed several Quality alarms because of the requirements tasked too it. The Set Points (trip point) had to be altered according to the product running on the equipment. No SCADA system today has the ability to easily do that today, but it will come.
6. #1 Dave
   2009-02-2820:18:59 I see where you are reading, writing and storing channel data. But I cannot find how to do simple math on the data being read. I simply want to do scaling on the data coming in on the channel.
   
   I am reading a meter that pre-scales data in the holding register with an implied decimal point, (I do it all the time when I program the older PLC's) i.e. 1234 = 123.4. FS needs a mechanism to allow scaling in the configuration or be able to read the scaling factor from the device and apply it to the number.
   
   It does not have to "just" be scaling, it could be other math also. Sometimes I have had to linearize an analog signal. (i.e. RTD/TC temperature, pressure and flow-rate, etc.