Configuring an Alarm Border Animation

Alarm Border animation shows a highly visible border around a graphic or graphic element when an alarm occurs. The color and fill pattern of the border indicates the severity and current state of the alarm, if supported by your HMI/SCADA software. Plant operators can quickly recognize alarm conditions when Alarm Border animation is used.

Alarm Border animation also shows an indicator icon at the top left corner of the border around a closed graphic element. For open pie or arc graphic elements, the indicator icon is placed at the top-left most location of the start and end points.

Alarm severity (1-4) or the current alarm mode (Shelved, Silenced, Disabled) appear as part of the indicator icon. The indicator icon can be shown or hidden as a configurable option of Alarm Border animation.

Alarm Border animation adheres to the following precedence rules with other functions that can change the appearance of a graphic:

1. Quality status

2. Alarm Border animation

3. Element Style animation

4. Style animations

5. Element Style on canvas

Related Topics

Configuring Common Types of Animations

Understanding Requirements of Alarm Border Animations

Understanding the Behavior of Alarm Border Animations

Configuring Alarm Border Animation

Configuring Optional Alarm Border Animation Characteristics