Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk View Machine Edition Users Guide - Manual (Page 150)

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You can use the [HISTORY] display as is, or modify the display. For example, you can
select which alarm triggers’ alarms to show in the list, or remove buttons that you don’t
want to use.
The alarm list graphic object
The [HISTORY] display contains an alarm list graphic object, which lists the time the
alarms occurred and were acknowledged, as well as the alarm messages.
You can set up the alarm list to show any combination of active, inactive, acknowledged,
and unacknowledged alarms. The alarm list in the [HISTORY] display is set up to show
all alarms (but you can edit it, if desired).
For more information about the alarm list, see page 9-32.
Buttons in the [HISTORY] display
The [HISTORY] display contains alarm buttons for acknowledging, silencing, and
clearing alarms, sorting the list of alarms, printing the alarm history list, and opening the
[STATUS] display, as well as buttons for scrolling the list and closing the display. For
information about how the buttons work, see page 9-36.
Use displays from the library in your application
The previous four sections described the [ALARM BANNER], [ALARM MULTI-LINE],
[STATUS], and [HISTORY] displays that are included in the Libraries folder. You can
copy objects from the displays to your own display, or you can copy the entire displays
into your application.
For information about copying objects from a library into your graphic display, see
page 20-43.
The graphic libraries are available on the development computer, but do not appear at run
time. To use a display in the library as a graphic display at run time, you must add the
library display into your application’s folder of graphic displays. For details, see
page 19-17.
Example: Use the [ALARM] and [STATUS] displays together
To use the [ALARM] display to alert the operator about alarms as they occur, and the
[STATUS] display to show how many times and for how long alarms have been active:
1. In the Alarm Setup editor, in the Advanced tab, select the [ALARM] display as the
display to open when alarms are triggered, if it is not already selected. (It is selected
by default.)
2. Add the [STATUS] display from the library.