Vaisala viewLinc 4.3 - Manual (Page 57)

Templates
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Templates
Templates
are used to quickly define the information required for
distribution in standard Email and SMS messages, alarm notification
requirements, and Location threshold values:
• Email
& SMS Templates: Defines standard Email or SMS
notification content for a viewLinc alarms.
• Alarm Templates: Defines how alarm notifications display on a
User’s PC, when an alarm should activate, whether acknow-
ledgement is required for a specific type of alarm.
• Threshold Templates: Defines units of measure (temperature
only), Threshold values for single or multi-threshold alarms, display
parameters for specific types of Thresholds. Threshold templates are
applied to Locations.
Email & SMS Templates
Alarm notifications are issued by Email and/or SMS, and contain
information about alarm conditions in your network (see “Types of
Alarms” on page 114). viewLinc provides you with more than 40 Email
and SMS templates to use as is, or you can create custom message
content.
When creating custom Email and SMS templates, you can choose to
include or not include specific content items, for example:
• Device description
• Event Type
• Details of Alarm
• Date
• Time
• Channel
• Comments (custom or preconfigured comments)
Note: Message content options differ between templates.