Technical Reference Manual - InduSoft

Alarms, Events, and Trends
Within a specific day's *.EVT file, each event is saved as a new line, using the pipe character ( | ) to delimit
the fields, as illustrated below:
P1|P2|P3|P4|P5|P6|P7|P8|P9|P10|P11|P12|P13
P1|P2|P3|P4|P5|P6|P7|P8|P9|P10|P11|P12|P13
.
.
P1|P2|P3|P4|P5|P6|P7|P8|P9|P10|P11|P12|P13
When the History Format is Database, the event log is saved as a table in whichever database you configured
for Event Database. For more information, see Saving your event log to an external database.
The fields/columns of the event log are described below:
Proprietary
Database
Description
Field Number Column Name Data Type
P1 Version Integer This field is created only when the History Format is Proprietary. Current
version: 002
P2 Event_Type Integer
1 Security System
2 Display
3 Recipe
4 Report
5 Custom Message
6 System Warning
7 Log Tags
P3 Event_Time TimeStamp Time stamp indicating when the event occurred.
P4 Event_Info String Tag name.
P5 Value Real Tag value when the event occurred.
When the History Format is Proprietary, the project saves the event time in the
following format: MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS.MSS. When the History
Format is Database, the project saves the event time in the default timestamp
format of the database.
P6 Source String Name of the task that generated the event.
P7 User String User logged on when the event occurred.
P8 User_Full String Full name of the user logged on when the event occurred.
P9 Message String Event message.
P10 Station String Name of the station (computer) where the event occurred.
P11 Comment String Comment (optional) typed by the operator when the event occurred. This field
only exists for Version >= 2.
P12 Previous_Value Real Tag value that occurred before the event. This field only exists for Version >= 2.
— Deleted Boolean This field is created only when the History Format is Database.
• 0 (FALSE): Event message was not deleted.
• 1 (TRUE): Event message was deleted.
P13 Bias Integer Difference (in minutes) between Event_Time and the GMT time. This field only
exists for Version >= 2.
— Last_Update TimeStamp Time stamp indicating when the register was created/modified. This field is used
to synchronize the databases when using the Secondary Database in addition
to the Primary Database. This field is created only when the History Format is
Database.
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