Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk View Machine Edition Users Guide - Manual (Page 157)

9 • Set up alarms
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You can assign any caption you choose to the labels on the alarm buttons.
Link buttons to objects
You can link the acknowledge alarm button to a specific alarm list or alarm banner, or set
up the button to work with whichever alarm list or alarm banner is selected in the graphic
display.
Similarly, you can link the clear alarm banner button to a specific alarm banner. This
option is useful if you have multiple alarm banners in the same graphic display. And you
can link the alarm status mode button to a specific alarm status list.
For more information about linking buttons to objects, see page 21-9.
Print alarm history Print a report of the alarm messages in the
alarm log file. You can include all alarms,
or just the alarms for a specific alarm
trigger. The report can include the time
alarms occurred and were acknowledged.
Print alarm status Print a report of the status of alarms. You
can include all alarms, or just the alarms
for a specific alarm trigger. The report can
include how many times each alarm was
triggered, and the accumulated time in
alarm.
Reset alarm status Reset the number of times an alarm has
been triggered to 0, and the accumulated
time in alarm to 0, for all alarms. If the
alarm is still active, the number changes
to 1.
Silence alarms Silence the audio indictor for all alarms
(for applications that will run on a personal
computer only).
Sort alarms Toggle between sorting alarms in alarm
lists and the alarm log file by time and by
trigger value.
Use this button
With this graphic
object
To do this