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Designer Functionalities
The Canvas Simulator can operate a project with an Alarm Summary object that displays up to 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:
Properties
Basic Properties
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:
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Appearance
The Appearance pane enables the use of colors and selections to alter visible characteristics.
Transform
The Transform tab provides adjustable properties that reshape or move the object.
Actions
There are currently no applicable actions for the Alarm Summary object. This is intended, and there are no plans to add this capability.
Runtime
Notifications
The user can set up notifications via labels in the alarm. On the alarm editor page, navigate to the labels page. Within the labels page, click the “Edit Labels” button, and double-click any label on the page. On this page, there will be a checkmark named “notify” when clicked; any alarm with that label attached will send a notification. This notification will appear at the bottom of the screen.
Another way to achieve this is to insert a command on an alarm ON/OFF action. When the command “Send Screen Notification” is selected, the user may specify the message sent via the notification at the bottom of the screen.
Functionalities
Filtering
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.
Acknowledging
The user can acknowledge alarms to confirm that they have been seen and to 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” Active, “Cleared” Cleared, “ActiveActive, Ack.”, and “ClearedCleared, Ack” Ack to show or hide certain statuses.
Shelving
The user has the option to can shelve alarms to temporarily hide them from the Active Alarm tab. Shelve acts like a snooze button for a specified time interval that is set by the user sets. After the interval, the alarm will unshelve and reappear in the Active Alarm tab. The user can also bypass the set timer by clicking the unshelve Unshelve button located in the Shelved Alarm tab.
Historical
The Historical Alarms Alarm tab creates a new record whenever an alarm status changes. The user can check a past alarm along with the status it was changed to, the time it was changed, and the value it had when it was changed. The logged alarms are filterable and deletable for better organization.
