Working with alarm panel templates & widgets, Converting an alarm panel template into a widget – Grass Valley iControl V.4.43 User Manual

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Figure 12-12

13. Click OK in the Alarm properties window.

The alarm panel in the iC Creator window is updated to display the selected alarms.

Figure 12-13

At first, iC Creator assumes the value of the URI location variable to be the default (i.e. the
text string you selected and replaced in

step 7

to

step 10

). If you publish and view this page,

the alarm statuses will be based on the default URI.

Working with Alarm Panel Templates & Widgets

While an alarm panel template, once created, can simply be copied and pasted into various
Web pages, a better way to use such as template is to convert it to a widget.

Converting an Alarm Panel Template into a Widget

Alarm panel templates can be reused, any number of times, on any iControl Web page. In
iC Creator, you can convert an alarm panel template into a component, or widget, to provide
convenient access.

To turn your alarm panel template into a widget

1. Right click the alarm panel template, and click Save component to library.

Change the text that will be displayed in

the alarm panel (the Default button

applies the URI-with-variable defined in

step 10

A check mark in this column indicates

that the alarm text will appear as a

header in the alarm panel

Choose a contribution from the drop-

down menu to determine how this alarm

will pass on its status

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