Message properties

Add a message.

Edit details of the selected message.

Delete one or multiple messages.

Filter the messages.

Clear all the alarm identifiers assigned to the alarm messages.

Select the trigger for which to define messages.

Enter a nonzero integer value or bit position. Bit position starts at 1.

When the trigger's value changes to this value, or when the bit in this position changes from zero to 1, the associated message is generated.

This column cannot be blank.

Enter the message, up to 256 characters.

To create a line break in the message, type

\n

.

To show the character sequence in the message, type

\\n

.

You cannot use tag placeholders (#

n

) in the variables that are embedded in an alarm message.

PanelView™

Plus 7 Standard applications are limited to 500 alarm messages, and

PanelView Plus 6 Compact

applications are limited to 200 alarm messages.

If a message uses an embedded variable to show the value of an alarm, and if that alarm is in alarm when the application starts up, the alarm banner will show question marks in place of the embedded variable. This is because the alarm system cannot determine when the alarm was triggered, and therefore cannot determine what the value of the variable was at that time. After the value has been reset to 0, the embedded variable value will show accurately the next time when the alarm is triggered.

This column only shows when the Use Alarm Identifier checkbox is selected.

Enter a value (1-32,767) in this column to identify the alarm message.

If this column is blank, the alarm identifier value is zero.

Select this checkbox to open the alarm graphic display that is selected on the

Advanced

tab of the

Alarm Setup

editor when this alarm is triggered. The message is added to the alarm history and can be shown in any alarm list, alarm banner, and alarm status list objects even if this checkbox is clear and the graphic display is not opened.

When the

Bit

trigger type is used, and multiple bits are triggered at the same time, the highest bit triggered message will be shown on the alarm banner display even if the

Display

checkbox of particular bits message is clear.

Filtering alarms on the display object that opens automatically when alarms occur (specified on the

Triggers

tab) is not recommended. It is assumed that the user will want this display to register all alarms. If you filter alarms on this display for some reason, be sure to clear the

Display

checkboxes for all the alarms that have been filtered out. Otherwise the display will open automatically when the alarm occurs because the

Display

option for the alarm is selected, but the alarm object (banner or list) will be blank, because the alarm that was triggered has been filtered out for that object.

For applications running on

Windows

7 SP1,

Windows

10,

Windows Server

2012 and

Windows Server

2016 operating systems, select this checkbox to sound the run-time computer's internal beeper when the alarm is triggered. The beeper beeps continuously, five seconds on and five seconds off, until the alarm is silenced.

Select this checkbox to print the alarm message when this alarm is triggered. Be sure that a printer is set up on the run-time terminal.

You can print alarms in landscape mode with a line printer, but only one alarm is printed per page.

If you set up alarm messages in multiple languages, all messages, trigger labels, and times are printed in the current application language.

Select this checkbox to send the text of the message to the message connection specified on the

Triggers

tab when the alarm is triggered.

If you set up alarm messages in multiple languages, make sure that the data source can receive the message in Unicode format or convert it into ASCII characters for all the languages you will use.

Click this button to select a color for the background of the message text.

Click this button to select a color for the message text.