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?

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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.

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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).

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.

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