What is shown, What happens when the display is opened – Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk View Machine Edition Users Guide User Manual
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You can use multiple alarm status lists, in the same display or in different displays. You
can set up different lists to show different information.
For information about setting up alarm status 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 shown.
If an alarm is active, an asterisk (*) appears in the alarm state column, if shown.
If the message is too long to fit in the object, the last character that would fit is
replaced with an asterisk. Similarly, if a column heading is too long to fit in the
column, the last character that would fit is replaced with an asterisk. You can specify
how many lines to allow for each alarm message, from 1 to 10.
The number of alarm messages that fits in the display depends on the height of the
alarm status list, the list’s font size, how many lines you have specified for each alarm
message, and whether the column headings are displayed.
For value-triggered alarms, the accumulated time column shows how long the alarm
has been set to the trigger value.
For bit-triggered alarms, the accumulated time column shows how long the bit has
been set to 1.
For LSBit-triggered alarms, the accumulated time column shows how long the
corresponding alarm’s least significant bit has been set to 1.
If you set up alarm messages in multiple languages, all messages and trigger labels are
shown in the current application language, regardless of what language they were
originally logged in.
What happens when the display is opened
The first time a display containing the alarm status list is opened, the first page of
alarms is shown.
If the list is set up to show active alarms only, and alarms that were visible when the
display was closed are no longer active, the alarms are removed from the list.
If alarms have been reset since the display was last opened, the first page of alarms is
shown.