Database field оbject properties

To open the properties window for the Database field object, see the Editing objects properties in the Template Editor section.

As a result the window for setting DB field properties will open.

Properties of the Database field object are similar to properties of the Text object, except of Unusual and Predefined parameters. Purpose of these parameters are follows.

In the Predefined drop-down list select the field from the database which will be displayed in the template. Apart from names of database fields there if the Unusual value.

Select the Unusual value if the template is in use for the Event Manager module operation and it's required to display event parameters on which the Event manager is configured using the Database field object. In the Unusual field enter the names of the event parameters.

The syntax for entering parameters is as follows:

You can specify several parameters in the Unusual template string. For example, to display the date and time of the event simultaneously, enter the following template string: Date: {date} Time: {time}. As a result, for a given event, the database field will display, for example: Date: 08-07-2019 Time: 8:00:00.

Also it's possible to add fields created by user in the Axxon PSIM.ext.dbi file to the template. For this purpose enter the name of corresponding field from a database in the Unusual field. Procedure of creating additional fields in the database is given in the Adding additional user parameters section.