Alarm Indicator Widgets

The Alarm Priority Icon (Alarm Priority Icon) and Alarm Priority Box (Alarm Priority Box) provide visible indications when the linked tag is in an active or unacknowledged alarm state, and when it is either shelved or disabled.

The icon will not be visible for alarms that are unacknowledged but no longer active unless the property AlarmPriorityIndicatorShowNormalUnacked is set to 1. The icon will always be displayed when the alarm is shelved or disabled.

Trip alarms are never in an active state; therefore this widget cannot be used to show those.

You can link this widget to a parent tag rather than a specific status or alarm tag. When linked to a parent, it will become activated when any child tag in the hierarchy is in an active alarm state. The icon will display the highest priority of the set of active alarms.

If the alarm (or set of alarms in child tags) includes a shelved alarm, then the widget will be activated and display an S. If the linked tag (or child tags) includes a disabled alarm, the widget will display an X.

If linked to a parent tag, and within the set of child tags there are unacknowledged alarms, active (but acknowledged) alarms, shelved alarms and disabled alarms, then the order of precedence for the display is as follows:

  1. Unacknowledged (icon blinks with the highest priority alarm of the set)
  2. Active (icon shows the highest priority alarm of the set)
  3. Disabled (icon shows an X)
  4. Shelved (icon shows an S)

Place the Alarm Priority Icon on a page, near to whatever image or shape represents the equipment that will trigger the alarm. The Alarm Priority Box can be used the same way, except that it adds a box for you to place around the equipment that is in an alarm state. The box is visible only when the icon is visible.