Knowledge Base

This message may appear in the following cases :

• When you try to affect a text variable with SCADA Basic with a text string longer than the max size for the variable.
  Copyfield was X max Y vvvv
  X : Number of characters of the affected text string
  Y : The max size for the variable
  vvvv : Name of the var
  For example, the  following message appears for a text variable “TXT”, limited to 12 caracters, when it’s affected with a text string of 20 characters.
  Copyfield was 20 max 12 TXT
• Whenever an event action is triggered on a text variable change with an expression.
  Copyfield was X max Y vvvv
  X : Number of characters of the expression for the event action +1
  Y : Number of characters of the expression for the event action
  vvvv : Expression of the event action
  For example an event action on the var « TXT » with the expression : =”TEST”, the folllowing message is generated.
  Copyfield was 5 max 4 TEST
• When you try to affect (using SCADA basic) a text attribute of a variable with a text string longer than the max size of the attribute. Extended text attribute max size was 40 characters until version 9 and is 100 characters in version 10.0 and 11).
  Copyfield was X max Y vvvv
  X: number of characters of the text attribute
  Y : The max size for the attribute
  vvvv : Truncated text string the Scada Basic instruction is trying to affect .
  For example the following message appears if you try to execute this instruction.
  VARIABLE(“SETTATT”, ?Nom_var, TattNo, “My string with a size bigger than 40 characters”); ‘actually 47 characters
  CopyField was 47 max 40 My string with a size bigger than 40 char