1162   How does the client know if TimeActivatedOperate can be applied?

Created: 22 Sep 2013

Status: In Force (green)

Part: Part 7-2 (2010; Edition 2)

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Page: 156/157

Clause: 20.1

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Category: No impact on this part

Issue

Is there a possiblilty for the client to check if TimeActivatedOperate can be applied to a control object? The dataAttribute ctlModel provides only information for status-only, direct-with-normal-security, sbo-with-normal-security, direct-with-enhanced-security, sbo-with-enhanced-security (7-3 page 22). In Edition 1 operTm was a dataAttribute that was only provided if TimeActivatedOperate could be applied to the control object. But in Edition 2 operTm has become a parameter of the service.
Is there any other possibility for the client to get that information (apart from the SCL file)?

Proposal

It could be a possibility to add four more values for ctlModel: direct-with-normal-security-with-TimeActivatedOperate, direct-with-enhanced-security-with-TimeActivatedOperate, sbo-with-normal-security-with-TimeActivatedOperate, sbo-with-enhanced-security-with-TimeActivatedOperate