The Alarm Summary object appears as a small spreadsheet. You can change the spreadsheet's appearance by enabling or disabling its display and column properties. The display properties show or hide the object's column headings, status bar, row numbers, scroll bars, and border. Display properties also let you configure a row to flash when displaying unacknowledged alarms.
The column properties determine which columns to display and in what order. By default, the Alarm Summary object displays the following columns:
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The column... |
Displays... |
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Ack |
A check mark to indicate that the alarm is acknowledged. |
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Time In |
The time that the block first generated the alarm. The Alarm Summary object formats the time according to the computer's Regional Settings control panel. |
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Time Lst |
The time that the alarm condition or status last changed. If the block generating the alarm re-issues it, this time will differ from the Time In value. The Alarm Summary object formats the time according to the computer's Regional Settings control panel. |
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Node |
The name of the SCADA server that generated the alarm. |
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Tagname |
The name of the tag that is in alarm. |
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Status |
The block's latched alarm. |
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Value |
The block's current value. |
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Description |
The block's description field. |
To these columns, you can add the following:
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The column... |
Displays... |
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Area |
The block's alarm areas. |
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Date In |
The date when the block first generated the alarm. By default, date format is month/day/year (mm/dd/yyyy) and is determined by the Regional Settings control. |
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Date Last |
The date when the block last generated the alarm. By default, date format is month/day/year (mm/dd/yyyy) and is determined by the Regional Settings control. |
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Priority |
The block's alarm priority. |
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Alarm Extension |
The block's alarm extension fields. Typically, the first extension field contains the name of the picture that displays information about the block. By adding the following script, you can let operators display this picture when they double-click the Alarm Extension column at run-time: Private Sub AlarmSummaryOCX1_LMouseClick(ByVal Col_As Long, ByVal Row as Long) Dim strSelectedAlarmExt1$ Dim strSelectedAlarmExt2$ AlarmSummaryOCX1.GetSelectedAlmExt strSelectedAlarmExt1$, strSelectedAlarmExt2$ If strSelectedAlarmExt2$ <> "" Then OpenPicture strSelectedAlarmExt2$ End If End Sub |
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User Defined Fields |
The value of any A_ field you specify. The maximum length of the name for this field is 50 characters. |
