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Use

You can use this function in the browser-based PI sheet or in the process manufacturing cockpit to display values defined as variables that are usually processed in the background (such as variable values from calculation formulas).

Prerequisites

You can display the value of a variable in the process instruction if the variable has been defined as follows::

  • In one of the preceding process instructions

  • In the same process instruction

  • In one of the succeeding process instructions

For more information, see Using Variables in Browser-Based PI Sheets and Cockpits .

Activities

In the process instruction, you define a variable value after the input value after which you want to display it in the PI sheet or cockpit. To do so, you assign the following characteristics to the process instruction:

Characteristic

Meaning

Allowed Values

PPPI_OUTPUT_TEXT

Text displayed before the output values to follow

Any short text

PPPI_OUTPUT_VARIABLE

Variable whose value is to be displayed

Variable name