Options on the Message tab of the Alarm Setup editor

Select a filter option from the list to show alarm messages in the

Alarm messages

area:

Select an option from the list to sort the alarm messages by trigger names or messages.

Select this check box to show the

Alarm Identifier

column in the

Alarm messages

area.

Click this button to clear all the alarm identifiers assigned to the alarm messages.

Specify alarm messages for triggers in this area.

Select the trigger for which to define messages.

If you are creating a message before setting up the trigger, select

<Unassigned>

from the

Trigger

list.

Enter a non-zero integer value or bit position. Bit positions start 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, or right-click and select

Edit String

to include embedded variables in the message.

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

check box is selected.

Enter a value (1-32767) in this column to identify the alarm message.

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

Select this check box 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 check box 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

check box 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

check boxes 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.

Select this check box to sound the

Windows

default beeper when the alarm is triggered. The beeper beeps continuously, 0.5 seconds on and 0.5 seconds off, until the alarm is silenced.

Select this check box to print the alarm message when this alarm is triggered. Be sure a printer is set up on the runtime 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 check box 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.