Customize Alarm/SoE summary state texts

This, and many more things, can be achieved by following these steps:
1. Place the alarm list animation numbers (or cicode objects) outside of the viewable area of the page.
2. Build your custom alarm line using AlarmGetDsp() function calls.

For example if your alarm list starts at AN1000, then for showing the summary state of the first alarm line you could use AlarmGetDsp(1000, "SumState"). If you want to customize this state text, you could write a cicode wrapper function:

STRING FUNCTION MySumText(STRING sState, STRING sOn, STRING sOff)
SELECT CASE sState
CASE "ON" RETURN sOn;
CASE "OFF" RETURN sOff;
END SELECT
END

And call this function from your custom alarm line (a text object on the page):

MySumText(AlarmGetDsp(1000, "SumState"), AlarmGetDsp(1000, "CUSTOM1"), AlarmGetDsp(1000, "CUSTOM2"))

Just remember to keep this wrapper function non-blocking. It cannot contain statements that take too much time, like TagRead or FOR /WHILE loops, etc.

Thanks for the quick respponce, but is this applicable to the SA AlarmList object?

No, this only applies to classic alarm lists (actual, summary, or SOE).

In your case, you could use an unused CUSTOM field of the alarm record to store the category text (at design time).

No, this only applies to classic alarm lists (actual, summary, or SOE).

In your case, you could use an unused CUSTOM field of the alarm record to store the category text (at design time).

OK, thanks for the help.