Rockwell Automation 2711 PANELBUILDER SOFTWARE USER MANUAL - Manual (Page 250)

Information and Alarm Windows
Chapter 7
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Figure 7.34
Selecting Display Modes
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All
Msgs
Active
Alarms
Past
Alarms
Active Alarms (Display Active Alarms Mode)
The Alarm Status screen first opens in Display Active mode (see
Figure 7.30 ). This mode shows, in numerical order, all alarm bits that are
ON, along with the alarm’s Quantity, Accumulated Time, and Message
information.
If you enter Display Active Alarms mode from Display All Alarms or
Display Past Alarms mode, the display starts with the first active alarm
from the current screen, and displays the next 15 active alarms. If there are
no active alarms from the current screen to the end, the search will go
backward until 16 active alarms are found, or until the beginning of the list
is reached.
The first alarm in the Display Active screen acts as an anchor to the screen
of alarm messages. If this alarm changes to Off or is deleted, all the alarms
on the screen shift upwards. If this same alarm becomes active again, it
will reappear at the top of the list, and the other alarms will shift down.
As new alarms are entered on the screen, the alarms below the new entry
shift downwards. If an alarm becomes active which is before the first alarm
on the screen, or after the last alarm on the screen, the list of alarms will
not change. Instead a message “Additional Alarms: Use Page-Up to View”
or “Additional Alarms: Use Page-Down to View” appears to show that
there is information above or below the alarms which are displayed.
If all the alarms displayed on a screen turn Off, and there are no higher
alarm numbers On, the display will scroll to the previous screen of alarms.