Alarm tag templates

Alarm tag templates allow you to configure the event notifications you will receive.

Configuration

Index

Assigns a unique numeric identifier for the template.

Name

Specifies how the alarm tag is named.

Select the Name field to activate the Add Placeholder button. Select the button to open the Build a Placeholder window. There you can select and add a placeholder and select from the following Advanced parsing features:

• Add value: Select to add and specify placeholder values. Select Add to save your changes.

• Add substring parsing: Select and specify substring values. Select Add to save your changes.

  • Select Left bound and either LBE or LBI from the dropdown menu to define the left boundary of the substring.

  • Select Right bound and either RBE or RBI to define the right boundary of the substring.

  • Select Delimiter then provide a name and a count to narrow the resulting substring.

Value

Specifies the value to be recorded. As with the Name field, select the Value field to activate the Add Placeholder button. You can edit placeholders to include values from the data emitted by the data source.

Data type

Specifies the PI data type of the value from the following options:

• String

• Integer

• Float

• Auto

• Float or string

Translate

Select the checkbox to activate the Translate button, which you can select to open the Translate window. There you can add and remove English Text and Foreign Text.

Advanced features

Descriptor

Populates the tag's Descriptor field.

Engineering units

Unit of measurement.

Alias

Use the drop down menu to select from the following:

• Default: Defaults to alias name and file path.

• Custom alias name: Provide a custom alias using one of the following format examples:

  • Tag(#)alias = ABC\def |test[module]

  • Tag(#)alias = $[Area] |[module] ALARM alias

• Disable alias creation: No alias is created.

Annotation

Use the field provided to annotate the alarm tag.

You have the option of selecting the Use a NameValues collection for annotation or Remove annotation from tag value.