In the Alarm Settings tab of Edit Alarm, users can change the Alarm Name, Trigger, Comparison, and Value fields. Action options for ON, OFF, and Acknowledge are also changeable on this page.

Each new alarm must have a trigger and value set before being able to be created. This is the condition the alarm will check to become active. An alarm can be triggered by different situations, like a tag reaching a value between or outside set limits, two tags being compared, or the value of a Boolean tag changing. By double-clicking the Trigger field or left-clicking the chain-link icon next to the field, the Binding Properties pop-up window will open where a tag can be selected. This tag may be formatted to be compared and used as a trigger, as shown by the second image on the right.

Another way to set conditions is by using expressions. The available expressions consist of scaling a tag value, using a Boolean value, or a condition map, and users are also allowed to create custom expressions. These conditions can be set by clicking on the Expression tab inside the Binding Properties window.

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The Labels tab allows users to change groups and levels for alarm organization. There are two default scopes to select from: group and level. Additional labels and scopes can be created by clicking the Edit Labels button. One alarm may have multiple group and level labels, and various alarms can have the same label. Groups or Levels can be selected by left-clicking the already created label and de-selected by clicking the x icon next to a selected label. An example of selected labels and the icon to de-select them is shown in the first picture on the right:

After clicking the Edit Labels button, new scopes and labels can be added with the + icon. To edit an already created label, double-click the desired one or right-click it and click Edit Label. The user can delete unwanted labels by right-clicking the label and clicking Delete. The second image on the right shows the Edit Labels window and the pop-up shown when creating or editing a label:

The user can set up notifications via labels. While creating or editing a label, there will be a checkbox named Notify, as shown by the first picture on the right:

When selected, any alarm with that label attached will send a notification to the bottom of the current page when activated, as shown by the second picture on the right.

Another way to achieve this is to insert a command on an alarm 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.

The user can export past alarm data to a CSV for record keeping. The user can transfer data to a separate device via USB, SD card, or File Transfer Protocol (FTP), or to local memory* on Linux Xpanel.

A CSV file can be created in two ways: creating a command set to Save Alarm CSV or creating a script that calls either of two functions: alarm.createCsv(String label, enum storageType) or alarm.createAllCsv(enum storageType). The user can specify the storage location and labels to be saved.

An example of what the CSV file would look like after generation is shown on the far right: