Technical Reference Manual - InduSoft

Alarms, Events, and Trends
Advanced
Click the Advanced button to open the Advanced dialog where you can specify advanced properties for the
Alarm Control object.
Advanced dialog
• Use the parameters in the Date & Time Format pane to control which date and time information displays
in the alarm message. Click (enable) a checkbox to include that element in the display. Note: MS stands for
milliseconds.
Tip: Watch the Sample text to preview how the information will look in the alarm message.
• Use the parameters in the Ack pane to control how alarms are acknowledged.
• Security field: Type a numeric value to specify which security level can acknowlege an alarm message.
Only those users with the specified level can respond.
• Ack All trigger field: Type a tag to receive a value. When the tag changes value, it indicates that all
messages in the alarm object have been acknowleged.
• Ack trigger field: Type a tag to receive a value. When the tag changes value, it indicates that the message
at the top of the alarm object has been acknowleged.
• Confirm checkbox: Click (enable) this box to display a confirmation dialog when the user tries to
acknowledge a single alarm.
• Enable comment (individual ack only) checkbox: Click (enable) this box to allow the user to enter comments
about the alarm, just after acknowledging it.
• Use the parameters in the runtime dialog triggers pane to contol
• Columns field: Type a tag to receive a value. When the tag changes value, it opens a dialog allowing the
user to customize the columns visible in the object.
• Filters field: Type a tag to receive a value. When the tag changes value, it opens a dialog allowing the
user to filter the columns visible in the object.
• Use the parameters in the Delete Message pane to control who can delete alarm messages from the Alarm
History:
• Security: Use this field to specify which security level can delete alarm messages. Only those users with
the specified security level will be allowed to delete an alarm message.
• Confirm: Click (enable) this box to require the user to confirm a message deletion before IWS actually
deletes the selected alarm message.
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