Use Alarm Indicators

Alarm indicators consist of a border and flag that appear around the extent of an object group or Genie. You can use them to provide a prominent visual indication of alarm occurrences at runtime.

Alarm border

An alarm border will appear around an object group or Genie when an associated alarm state occurs.

Alarm flag

An alarm flag provides additional information about an alarm by presenting:

• a flag color

• a flag shape

• a flag code that can indicate the alarm priority or the alarm type.

The example below shows the shape, color and flag codes that are used to indicate emergency alarms, high priority alarms and low priority alarms in a project created from the Situational Awareness Starter Project.

If you need to configure your own alarm flags, see Create a Custom Flag for an Alarm Indicator.

As well as using color to indicate the priority of an alarm, the appearance of an alarm indicator can be used to determine the current state of an alarm. For example, if an alarm is unacknowledged, the indicator will flash. For more information, see Alarm States.

You can position an alarm flag at a number of locations around the outside of an object's alarm border. To indicate a specific alarm state, an alarm indicator may flash or display a lighter version of a color.

To configure an alarm indicator for an object group or Genie, you need to perform the following tasks:

1. Confirm that the required alarm priorities are assigned to an alarm category. See Categorize Alarms.

2. Define the display properties for the alarm priorities that an indicator will represent. See Configure Display Properties for an Alarm Priority.

3. For each object group or Genie, define the Alarm Indicator properties in Graphics Builder. See Alarm Indicator.

See Also

Prioritize Alarms