Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk View Machine Edition Users Guide - Manual (Page 343)

20 • Use graphic objects
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Unlike the buttons in the previous table, the following buttons do not work with specific
graphic objects. You can use them to work directly with alarms in the alarm history and
with the application’s diagnostics messages.
Enter and show numeric and string values
Use this button To do this
Acknowledge all alarms
button Acknowledge and silence all currently unacknowledged alarms, or the
alarms for a specific alarm trigger.
Clear alarm history
button Remove alarms from the alarm log file and all alarm lists. You can remove
all alarms, or just the alarms for a specific alarm trigger. You can also reset
the cleared alarms. This resets the number of times an alarm has been
triggered to 0, and the accumulated time in alarm to 0.
Reset alarm status
button Reset the number of times an alarm has been triggered to 0, and the
accumulated time in alarm to 0, for all alarms.
Silence alarms button Silence the audio indicator for all current alarms (on personal computers
only).
Sort alarms button Toggle between sorting alarms in alarm lists and the alarm log file by time
and by trigger value.
Diagnostics clear all
button Remove all diagnostics messages from all diagnostic lists.
Use this graphic object To do this
Numeric input enable button Enter a numeric value and then write the value to a tag or an expression, or
ramp a value at the data source. For details, see page 17-14.
Numeric input cursor point Enter a numeric value and then write the value to a tag or an expression, or
ramp a value at the data source. For details, see page 17-14.
String Input Enable button Enter a string value and then write the value to a tag. For details, see
page 17-28.
Numeric display Display numeric tag values. For example, show the current temperature of
an oven. For details, see page 21-28.
String display Display string tag values. For example, set up the data source to generate
strings that report on the state of a process of operation, or that provide the
operator with instructions about what to do next. For details, see page 21-33.