Settings Tab

For OPC AE source systems, you can subscribe to alarms and events and their attributes. On this tab you specify whether you want the subscribed data to be transformed into XML or JSON format.

In the serialization mode field, you define how you want the attributes of a subscribed alarm to be transferred. You can choose one of the following options:

Serialization Mode

Value

Description

Standard XML

Only the values of the subscribed attributes are transferred in XML format here. This is the standard procedure that is also used in older PCo releases.

Extended XML

The attribute names and the values of the subscribed attributes are transferred in XML format here.

JSON

The attribute names and the values of the subscribed attributes are transferred in JSON format here.