Alarm and Event Summary
The
FactoryTalk®
Alarm and Event Summary object subscribes to and displays alarms and events from one or more areas in the FactoryTalk
system. With the Alarm and Event Summary, you can acknowledge, disable, suppress, shelve, unshelve, filter, and sort alarms during runtime.The Alarm and Event Summary consists of four parts. These components can be configured at design time in the
Alarm and Event Summary Properties
dialog box: - Toolbar. The toolbar is displayed at the top of the Alarm and Event Summary and is used to perform operations such as acknowledge alarms, filter the events displayed, or show alarm faults. Configurable properties include the toolbar controls that are displayed at the top of the Alarm and Event Summary, the caption text or tooltip text of toolbar buttons, and the position of the toolbar or the size of the toolbar buttons.
- Event list. The top part of the Alarm and Event Summary displays a list of events-divided into columns. The columns across the top of the event list represent data fields in the Alarm and Event Summary display and allow the operator to sort the data displayed. Configurable properties include the sorting and resize runtime behavior, order, width, heading text, or alignment of columns, and the appearance of the text in the display.
- Details pane. The bottom part of the Alarm and Event Summary displays information about the event that is selected in the event list. Configurable properties include display of the details pane, the height of the pane, and runtime adjustment behavior.
- Status bar. The status bar at the bottom of the Alarm and Event Summary shows the status of the connections to alarm and event servers, the number of alarms in various states and what filter and sort order if any is applied to the event list. Configurable properties include which items are shown on the status bar, whether the status bar is displayed, and the fonts and icon size used for the items.
When you start the Alarm and Event Summary messages about the start up process are displayed in the event list. For example, if you run the Alarm and Event Summary before any of the alarm servers in the application have started, the following message is displayed in the event list: "Waiting for active server notification. Retrying initialization."
To configure the Alarm and Event Summary for use with touch screens, change the size of the toolbar buttons and fonts. Consider implementing a custom toolbar with button objects that call methods in the Alarm and Event Summary object model to perform alarm operations such as acknowledge.
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