### Analog Wire Lock The information below provides a FULL description of this microblock and all of its properties. What information you see and what you can do with it depends on your license and the application you are in, and in some cases, a controller's driver version.
Microblock family | Relay microblocks
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What it does | This microblock can lock a specified value so that it remains the same regardless of the input signal. You can assign a Name to the lock that appears on the Properties page. You can use any characters (including spaces) in this field, except for the " character.
#### Properties TIPS Alt+click any value in the WebCTRL® or Field Assistant interface to view property details, including its editing privilege and expression (location path) for use on graphics. You can right-click some properties in the EIKON® Property Editor and select Make editable or Make read-only to determine that property's functionality in your system.
Display Name | The microblock label used in the EIKON® application and the WebCTRL® interface. You can use any characters except the " character.
Reference Name RefName | Use the default reference name unless you want a more descriptive name for graphics or network links. Limitations: lower case only limited to 40 characters cannot begin with a number must be unique within a control program
Lock Present Value | Check to output the locked value from the microblock instead of the microblock's calculated value.
Editing Privilege | Preset - Each microblock property has an appropriate privilege or role assigned to it. You can use Global Modify in the WebCTRL® interface to find out what the actual privilege is. CAUTION If you change the Editing Privilege from Preset, the privilege you select will be used for all properties of this microblock, which is not always desirable.
Display resolution | The microblock's value is truncated and incrementally updated as follows: The Display resolution format is used to truncate the microblock’s actual value. For example, if you enter a value from: 0.1 to 0.9, the system displays 1 digit to the right of the decimal 0.01 to 0.99, the system displays 2 digits to the right of the decimal 1 or greater, the system displays a whole number The Display resolution value determines the increment by which the displayed value is updated. For example, if you enter: .2, the system displays 8.4, 8.6, 8.8, ... .03, the system displays 5.09, 5.12, 5.15, ... 10, the system displays 30, 40, 50, ...
Enable | Check to output the locked value from the microblock instead of the microblock's calculated value.
Locked Value | Set the value of the microblock's output.
Dated | The lock is effective only for the time indicated by the Begin and End fields.
Begin | Set the beginning date and time of the lock.
End | Set the ending date and time of the lock.
Property Page Text
Show Property Page Text | Check to show this microblock's value on the equipment's Properties page.
Property Page Text | You can edit the microblock description that appears on the Properties page. See "Editing Properties page text using special characters" and "Formatting a microblock property" in EIKON® Help.