Using the Alarm Summary's property sheet, you can save and reset the Alarm Summary object's current settings. Saving the settings allows you define the defaults for all new Alarm Summary objects you subsequently add to your pictures. Likewise, if you reset and then save the object's settings, all new Alarm Summary objects will use the object's preset default values.
When you click the Save button in the Alarm Summary property sheet, your settings are saved into an AlarmSummary.ini file in the LOCAL folder. By default, this path is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Proficy\iFIX\LOCAL. If an AlarmSummary.ini file does not exist, one is created when you click the Save button. Otherwise, the AlarmSummary.ini is overwritten with the new settings.
For example, say you want you to change the fonts and the column widths of the Alarm Summary object, so that each new Alarm Summary object that you add to a picture uses these fonts and column widths. Drop an Alarm Summary object into your picture, and click and drag the dividers between the column headings so that they appear the way you want them to. Double-click the Alarm Summary object, make your changes to the fonts on the General tab, and then click Save. The next Alarm Summary object that you add to your picture will use these settings.
When you click Reset in the Alarm Summary object, only the settings in the selected Alarm Summary object get restored to the preset defaults. If you want other Alarm Summary objects that you create after this one to also use the same default settings, after you click Reset, click Save. This saves your Alarm Summary settings to the AlarmSummary.ini file in the LOCAL folder (by default: C:\Program Files\Proficy\Proficy iFIX\LOCAL), so that subsequent Alarm Summary objects will apply these default settings when you first drop the object into your picture.
