Display Cause and Response Information

Plant SCADA allows you to associate cause and response information with an alarm tag (see Provide Cause and Response Information to Operators).

In a Situational Awareness project, cause and response information is presented on the Default Alarm Pages and the Alarms tab in the Information Zone.

If your project is based on the SxW or Tab Style templates, you can view this information at runtime via the Cause and Response dialog. If multiple alarm responses have been configured for an alarm, this dialog will allow you to step through all of them.

You can launch the Cause and Response dialog from the following locations:

• Alarm Banner

• Active Alarms page

• Disabled Alarms page.

  Note: If alarm response information has not been specified for an alarm, the menu items described in the procedure below will not be available.

To display alarm response information for an alarm:

1. Select the alarm for which you would like to view cause and response information.

2. Right-click and select Cause and Response.

   The Cause and Response dialog will appear. It includes the following information:

   • Possible Alarm Cause — a description of the cause of an alarm.

   • Response — a description of the appropriate response to an alarm.

   • Response Time — the period of time in which the specified response needs to be acted upon.

   • Consequence — a description of the likely outcome if the appropriate response is not acted upon within the specified response time.

3. If multiple alarm responses have been configured for the selected alarm, click the Next button to step through the available cause and response information. When you have reached the last alarm response, the Next button will no longer be available.

4. Close the dialog.

See Also

Add Cause and Response Information to Alarms