Configure the appearance and colors of the Alarm Pareto control

You can configure the visual appearance of the Alarm Pareto control. You can:

• Include a status bar.

• Set the orientation of the Pareto chart bars.

• Include descriptions of chart bars.

• Select the colors of the Alarm Pareto chart.

Set the appearance of the Alarm Pareto control

1. Right-click the Alarm Pareto control and then select Properties. The AlarmPareto Properties dialog box appears.

2. Select the General tab.

   

3. Configure the general options. Do the following:

   Property	Description
   Bar Count	Sets the number of bars to view in the Alarm Pareto control.
   Display Mode	This list shows the available view options. The options are Alarm & Event History, Alarm History, and Event History.
   No-Match Message	Sets the message to show when no data is processed from the Alarm Pareto control.
   Vertical	Shows the bars on a vertical scale.
   Horizontal	Shows the bars on a horizontal scale.
   Show Status Bar	Enables the status bar.
   Silent Mode	The Alarm Pareto control does not show run-time error messages. If it is not selected, the alarm display shows error messages. Error messages are always sent to the Logger.
   Auto Font	When the space available is not enough to show the text on the selected bar correctly, Auto Font hides the text and only shows the text when the bar is selected.
   Show Node Name	Shows the node name on the bar graph.
   Show Selected in Status Bar	Shows the description of a selected bar on the status bar.
   Consolidated Alarms	Consolidate the alarm states into two states. For example, if an analog tag has a three- state alarm: Hi, HiHi and Normal, the Hi and HiHi alarm states are classified as one state.
   Show Count in Percentages	Shows the bars based on the percentage of count to the total count.
   Show Time in State	Shows the Alarm Pareto control based on the time each tag is in an alarm state. This option is only enabled when the display mode is set to Alarm History.

4. Select Apply.

5. Select the Colors tab.

   

6. Select each color box to open a color palette.

7. Select the color that you want to assign for each of the following chart properties:

   Property	Description
   Background Color	Sets the background color of the Alarm Pareto chart
   Bar Color	Sets the bar color of the chart
   Font Color	Sets the color of text that appears in the chart
   Select Color	Sets the color of a selected bar

8. Select Apply.