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CONFIGURING THE COLOR VIRTUAL HMI
PRIMITIVE DESCRIPTIONS
Up to eight pairs of colors may be assigned to tags with priorities 1 through 8. A priority
value greater than 8 will use the setting for priority 8.
USING THE HELP BUTTON
The Alarm Viewer includes a Help button to provide context help on alarms. For example,
when multiple alarms are active in the viewer, the operator can select one of the alarms and
push the Help button to get more information or eventual solution for this alarm.
To use this functionality, the help button has to be activated in the Alarm Viewer as shown
below.
The actions in the OnHelp field will be launched when the Help button is pressed on the
alarm viewer. Any actions can be entered in the OnHelp field, however, to use contextual
help, the following design as to be followed.
Get alarm
selected by user
Run a program
passing the
alarm number
Display proper
information
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