Category display in Alarm Format (Active Alarms)

Hi,

i wonder if anyone has managed to figure this out. we have a client that is requiring us to display the alarm categories in plain text. we setup labels as reference to the alarm cateogories.

so in the citect ini format section we specified the following format.

[Format]

Alarm={Date,80}{Time,80}{Tag,120}{Name,120}{Desc,120}{Category,50}{Area,10}{State,10}{UserLocation,50}{Equipment,80}

However the category is displayed as the number. how can we convert that to show the labels instead? is there some form of lookup we can do?

Would using the custom fields be the solution?

Anton over 5 years ago

Как он отличает категорию плоским текстом от неплоского (объемный что ли) ?
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Patrick over 5 years ago

Really helpful to reply this way on a English speaking forum...
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Patrick over 5 years ago

A trick used in many complex projects is to place the standard alarm list objects (the range of ANs that are used for the list) off screen and create a more graphically pleasing alarm list or banner that requests information of those ANs using an AlarmGetDsp() statement.
You can then create your own function to convert the category number back into a text.
For example: MyCatText(AlarmGetDsp(1000, "Category"))
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Patrick over 5 years ago

But custom fields would work fine too
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Ignatius over 5 years ago

that's very helpful. but is there a function that can perform a look up of the label dbf so that the conversion can occur?
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Patrick over 5 years ago

No unfortunately there is no such function. You would have to make it yourself. Easiest is to put a SELECT CASE statement in your function and define the category numbers and strings there as well.
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Anton over 5 years ago

We use personal color blinked font for each alarm category:

1 - emergency- red

2 - warning - yellow

3 - technology - green (for logging only, don't show on main alarm page)

Maybe it will useful for you

технология
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Anton over 5 years ago

Citect help says:

You can also create a label to refer to an alarm category. This allows you use a meaningful name to identify the category instead of a numeric value. When you define a label for an alarm category, the label's Expression field should include the numeric value associated with the category you would like the label to represent. For more information, see Defining Labels.

How we can use LABELS in alarm categories format ?
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Anton over 5 years ago

Custom fields:

Custom 1 to Custom 8

A user-defined string for filtering active alarms (maximum 64 characters).

Used in a custom Cicode query function as search criteria, the custom alarm filter Custom alarm filters provide a way to filter and display active alarms. Up to eight custom filter strings can be assigned to a configured alarm. In conjunction with a user-defined query function, the custom filters enable operators to identify and display active alarms of interest. enables operators to identify and display a subset of active alarms.

Notes:

Custom filters are visible only when the Advanced Alarms form is open in Extended mode.
The fields are not case-sensitive and can contain 'A'..'Z', 'a'..'z', '0'..'9', and the underscore '_'.
A custom filter cannot start with a digit.

Patrick over 5 years ago

Hi Anton,

I'm not sure if you are trying to answer Ignatius' problem, or if you have a question yourself.
If so, it might be less confusing if you start your own topic.
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