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Examples of Message-related Variables
This section contains examples of messages-related variables and
parameters you can use to perform daily tasks.
Configuring OVO
About Variables
❏ Accessing Message Attributes
You can access all message attributes with the following variable:
$OPC_MSG.ATTRIBUTES
All you would need to do is add an attribute name.
For example, to get text of a message, you would use the following:
$OPC_MSG.TEXT
Also when working with attributes that represent strings, you can
access a specific word.
For example, to get the fourth word in the text of a message, you
would use the following:
$OPC_MSG.TEXT[4]
Annotations are an exception to this rule. In annotations, an index
specifies the annotation that are returned.
For example, you would access the seventh annotation of the current
selected messages with the following:
$OPC_MSG.ANNOTATIONS[7]
❏ Finding Duplicate Messages
If you need information about the number of message duplicates for
an application, you would use the following:
$OPC_MSG.DUPLICATES
❏ Extracting Creation Time and Severity
If want to do some statistical calculations, you would specify the
message creation time and the severity, as follows:
$OPC_MSG.CREATED
$OPC_MSG.SEVERITY
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