Method for the application-specific setting of a field device

A method for the application-specific setting of a field device which is installed in a defined application in a process in automation engineering and determines or monitors at least one process variable of a medium, comprising:

• recording a diagnostic message, error message, or notice about an error message which occurs or has occurred at least temporarily on the field device during a defined interval;
• analyzing if the diagnostic message, error message, and/or notice about an error message is tolerable and/or plausible in the defined application;
• assigning an application-specific notice with regard to tolerability and/or the plausibility to the diagnostic message, error message, and/or notice about an error message that has arisen in the defined application;
• clearing the diagnostic message, error message, and/or notice about an error message if the diagnostic message, error message, and/or notice about an error message is classified as tolerable and/or plausible in the defined application;
• and
• using an application-specific setting of the field device, which clears the diagnostic message, error message, and/or notice about an error message classified as tolerable and/or plausible.