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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Ignatius over 5 years ago

thanks everyone. yes custom fields was probably a way to go except that the alarms list was generated from the equipment types. so we prob have to go through each xml to add the custom field in the alarm dbfs.
Only question is why would the system enable labels for categories and priorities but when displaying the information or performing filtering, the reference number is used instead. I would have thought the labels were meant to provide context in the alarming.
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Ignatius over 5 years ago

thanks everyone. yes custom fields was probably a way to go except that the alarms list was generated from the equipment types. so we prob have to go through each xml to add the custom field in the alarm dbfs.
Only question is why would the system enable labels for categories and priorities but when displaying the information or performing filtering, the reference number is used instead. I would have thought the labels were meant to provide context in the alarming.
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