Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk View Machine Edition Users Guide - Manual (Page 152)

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 When the newest alarm is acknowledged.
If you don’t want the display to close when the newest alarm is acknowledged, you can
turn off this option in FactoryTalk View ME Station.
To change how the display closes
1. In FactoryTalk View ME Station, click Terminal Settings.
2. Double-click Alarms.
3. Specify how you want the display to close.
How the alarm list graphic object works
The alarm list graphic object displays the time an alarm was triggered, and the time it was
acknowledged (if you set up the object to show acknowledged alarms).
At run time, when a trigger connection at the data source matches a message’s trigger
value, an alarm appears in the alarm list. The alarm list can be in the [ALARM MULTI-
LINE] or [HISTORY] display, in an alarm display you have created, or can be placed on
any display in your application.
You can use multiple alarm lists, in the same display or in different displays. Each alarm
list displays information from the same alarm log file, although you can set up different
lists to display different information.
For information about setting up alarm lists, see Help.
What is shown
 If you set up the list to show the alarms for specific alarm triggers, only alarms for
those triggers are displayed.
 If the list is set up to show unacknowledged alarms only, the alarms shown in the list
are unacknowledged and the acknowledge time column, if any, is always blank.
 If the list is set up to show both acknowledged and unacknowledged alarms,
acknowledged alarms can show a symbol (which you can specify) at the left end of the
row, and the acknowledge time appears in the acknowledge time column, if shown.
 If the list is set up to show both active and inactive alarms, active alarms can show a
symbol (which you can specify) at the left end of the row. If both the acknowledge
symbol and active symbol are shown, the active symbol column is to the right of the
acknowledge symbol column.
 If the message is too long to fit in the object, the last shown character is replaced with
an asterisk. Similarly, if a column heading is too long to fit in the column, the last