Using Alarm Summary objects in your pictures gives you an effective way to monitor, acknowledge, sort, and filter alarms using an OCX. You can color-code alarms by alarm status and priority in order to provide operators with visual cues. You can also view how many alarm occurrences have taken place between alarm acknowledgements (using the A_ALMOCCUR block field).
To add an Alarm Summary object to your picture, click the Alarm Summary button on the Shapes toolbar (Classic view) or on the Insert tab, in the Objects/Links group, in the Objects/Links list, click Alarm Summary (Ribbon View). If the Toolbox is enabled, click the button on the Toolbox.
The Alarm Summary object appears as a spreadsheet that you can modify in both the configuration and run-time environments. For example, you can resize the object using the object's handles, resize the columns in the spreadsheet, or select rows in the spreadsheet in both environments. Additionally, you can perform many functions using the object's pop-up menu.
Before you add an Alarm Summary object to a picture, verify that specific alarming services and networking options are enabled. Refer to the Understanding the Alarm Summary Object section in the Implementing Alarms and Messages manual for more information on using the Alarm Summary object.
NOTE: Inserting an alarm summary into a VBA form may cause unpredictable results when opening the picture or switching environments from run-time to configuration or vice versa.
