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l Poll cycle
Setsthethetimeforcyclicalqueryingofdata.Thecurrentuseris(re)-quer-
iedafterthistimehaselapsed.Thetimemustbelongenoughinrelationto
thePausetimeandthenumberofchannels(participants)oryouwillreceive
anerrormessagewhenclosingthedialogue.Thevaluesenteredwillthennot
besaved.
l Timeout
Setsthemaximumpermissibletimebetweenarequestandaresponse
beforeanerrorstatusisshown.Intheeventofanerror,a"wirebreak"
statusisdisplayedaccordingtothenumberoftimeoutssetwithProduce
wire break after.ReferalsotothetableinStatusmonitoring.Thetimemust
beshortenoughinrelationtothetimeforthePoll cycleoryouwillreceivean
errormessagewhenclosingthedialogue.Thevaluesenteredwillthennotbe
saved.
l Pause
Setsthewaitingtimeforaqueryfrommorethanonechannelwithinapoll
cycle.Thetimemustbeshortenoughforallchannelstobequeriedwithin
thetimeenteredunderPoll cycleoryouwillreceiveanerrormessagewhen
closingthedialogue.Thevaluesenteredwillthennotbesaved.
Poll string
Enterhereacharacterstringforalloutputchannelswhichistobeoutputand
whichpromptstheusertosenditsdataifthisisrequired.Ifyourequiredatafrom
severalchannelswithdifferentpollstrings,donotenabletheoptionhere,but
enterinsteadthepollstringseparatelyforeachrelevantinputchannel.
Enterthestringastext.ASCIIcharactersthatcannotbeentereddirectly,e.g.car-
riagereturn(CR)orlinefeed(LF),canbeenteredusing%andtheASCIIvaluein
hexadecimalformat:EnterCRas%0DandLFas%0A.
Termination
Thissettingappliestoinputandoutputchannelsfortheinterfaceandcannotbe
changedforaspecificchannel.Theentriesfortermination symbolandtrans-
mission pauseare,however,usedsimultaneously.Forexample,aninputmessage
isconsideredendedaftereithertheTermination symboland/orapauselarger
thanthetimegivenintransmission pause.
l Termination symbol
OneormoreASCIIcharactersthatindicatetheendofamessage.Ifthechar-
acterscannotbesent,orifyoudonotenteranycharacters,thetransmission
pausewillbeusedforendrecognition.
Enterthecharactersastext.ASCIIcharactersthatcannotbeentereddir-
ectly,e.g.carriagereturn(CR)orlinefeed(LF),canbeenteredusing%and
theASCIIvalueinhexadecimalformat:EnterCRas%0DandLFas%0A.
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ProfiMessage Manual