The Canvas Simulator can operate a project with an Alarm Summary object that displays up to 175 150 alarms reliably. Likewise, a physical Xpanel can reliably do the same with up to 1,000 alarms. The operating speeds of both the Simulator and a physical Xpanel will depreciate with the creation of more alarms. Click Insert > Alarm Summary,or the Insert Alarm Summary icon in the toolbar, and click and drag on the page to bring up the Alarm Summary object as shown to the right:

The Basic Properties window allows changing the displayed content and formatting within the object. The object’s name will show up in place of Basic Properties, as displayed pictured to the right:

This window allows changing the displayed content and formatting within the object.

The Appearance pane enables the use of colors and selections to alter visible characteristics.

The Transform tab provides adjustable properties that reshape or move the object.

There are currently no applicable actions for the Alarm Summary object. This is intended, and there are no plans to add this capability.

When running the program, the user can select the Label Filter option in the Alarm Summary to display the alarms with a specific label. Multiple One or multiple labels may be applied simultaneouslyat once. All active, cleared, and all active acknowledged alarms with the selected labels will be displayed in the active Active Alarm tab of the Alarm Summary. If an active alarm has more than one label, it will be displayed when any of its labels are selected. The same can be done in the historical tab for the historical with active, cleared, acknowledged, and shelved alarms.

The user can acknowledge alarms to confirm they have been seen and trigger Acknowledge actions. If a cleared alarm is acknowledged, it will move from Active Alarm to Historical Alarm. Otherwise, any alarm will stay on the page until deleted. Users can check or uncheck the boxes for Active, Cleared, Active, Ack., and Cleared, Ack to show or hide certain statuses.