Check this Parameter item to enable its exclusion status. If a Parameter Exclusion item is disabled, then it will be ignored when looking for Parameter items to exclude during comparison. You twill typically use this to toggle on/off the exclusion of a particular Parameter item based on the type of configuration data that is being compared.
Specify the Parameter name that an exclusion will apply to.
Parameter names can be specified using the wild card character '*' to allow for specifying that any value or partial values are to be matched when locating Parameter names that might apply to a Parameter Exclusion definition.
In this example any Parameter name that starts with "BLOCK_TEST" will be ignored.
Note that in the second Exclusion definition the name has the '.' suffix character indicating that any Parameter name that starts with "UPDATE_EVT." will be ignored. Use of the hierarchical delimiter char '.' helps to isolate Parameters that should be ignored. If a Parameter name "UPDATE_EVTOP.OPSYNC" exists, then this Exclusion definition would not apply based on the position of the '.' delimiter character. However a Parameter name "UPDATE_EVT.INSYNC" would be excluded.
Specify the configuration scope where this Parameter exclusion applies.
You can choose to exclude a Parameter name that is found in a Function Block, Control Module, or both Function Block and Control Module.
Specifying Control Module as the scope option will only exclude a Parameter name if it is found in what is considered the Control Module definition block of a CM. This Control Module block contains the configuration data that is not specific to any Function Block that is embedded in the Control Module container. Examples of Control Module block type parameters would be SCANASSOCDSP (Associated Display), DESC (CM description), EUDESC (CM EU descriptor), etc.
Specify an optional ClassName to further identify that this Parameter is only to be excluded if found within a Block that has the specified Class Name type.
In the example here the ClassName value "DEVFB" refers to CEE FieldBus device type Function blocks. Other common ClassName values would include FLAGNIM, NUMERNIM for LCN type entity configuration.
Specify and optional BlockName to further identify that this Parameter is only be excluded if found within a Block that has this BlockName value.
In this example below, the BlockName value of "PID" indicates that any Parameter found in a Block whose BlockName value is "PID" will be excluded (ignored) during value comparison. The wild card character "*" value for the ParamName indicates that all Parameters apply for this exclusion definition.
The list of defined Parameter exclusions. Configuration data often contains Parameter values that are expected to change during runtime such as FLAG block PVFL status, field device runtime parameters, etc. Choosing to define these parameters as excluded will help to eliminate noise in the generated comparison report.
