Configuring Alarm Border Animation

Alarm Border animation can be configured by selecting Alarm Border from the list of Visualization animations. For Situational Awareness Library symbols, Alarm Border animation can be selected as a Wizard Option of the graphic.

The Alarm Border animation dialog box contains mutually exclusive fields to set the referenced equipment.items for aggregate or individual alarms.

If your HMI/SCADA software supports aggregating alarms from different plant or functional areas, you can specify Alarm Border animation by entering an equipment.item, object, or tag name in the Use Standard Alarm-Urgency References field of the Alarm Border dialog box.

The selected object equipment.items or tags typically map to the following aggregation alarm equipment.items:

• AlarmMostUrgentAcked

• AlarmMostUrgentInAlarm

• AlarmMostUrgentMode

• AlarmMostUrgentSeverity

• AlarmMostUrgenShelved

For individual alarms, you can specify Alarm Border animation by entering equipment.item or object names in the Use Custom Alarm-Urgency References fields of the Alarm Border dialog box.

• InAlarm Source

  Indicates the InAlarm status (True/False) of the most urgent alarm that is in the InAlarm state or waiting to be Acked. If no alarms are in the InAlarm state or waiting to be Acked, the value is False.

• Acked Source

  Indicates the acknowledgement status (True/False) of the most urgent alarm that is in the InAlarm state or waiting to be Acked. If no alarms are in an InAlarm state or waiting to be Acked, the value is True, which means no acknowledgement is needed.

• Mode Source

  Indicates the alarm mode (Enable/Silence/Disable/Shelved) of the most urgent alarm that is in the InAlarm state or waiting to be Acked. If alarms are configured for an equipment.item, but no alarms are in the InAlarm state or waiting to be Acked, the value is the same

  as the AlarmMode of the object.

• Severity Source

  Indicates the severity as an integer (1-4) of the most urgent alarm current in an InAlarm state. If no alarms are in an InAlarm state or waiting to be acknowledged, the value is 0.

• Shelved Source

  Indicates the current Shelved status (True/False) of the most urgent alarm that is in the InAlarm state or waiting to be Acked. If no alarms are in the InAlarm state or waiting to be Acked, the value is False.

To set Alarm Border animation for individual alarms, specify references to the following alarm equipment.items or tags:

• InAlarm equipment.item

• Acked equipment.item

• Mode equipment.item

• Severity equipment.item

• Shelved equipment.item

Alarm Border animation subscribes to these equipment.items or tags. Based on the alarm state of these equipment.items or tags, Alarm Border animation is applied to the graphic element in run time.

To configure Alarm Border animation

1. Open a graphic in the Industrial Graphic Editor.

2. Select the graphic to show the graphic elements listed in the Elements pane of the Industrial Graphic Editor.

3. Select a graphic element from the Elements list to apply Alarm Border animation.

4. Click Add Animation to show the list of animation types.

5. Select Alarm Border from the list of Visualization animations.

   The Alarm Border dialog box appears with a set of configuration options.

6. Select either Use Standard Alarm-Urgency References or Use Customized Alarm-Urgency References.

   • To use Standard Alarm-Urgency References

     Click Browse and select an equipment.item, tag, or object name, then Click OK.

     Both direct and relative references to an object or tag are supported. An expression cannot be used to reference the object.

   • To use Customized Alarm-Urgency References

     Click Browse and select an equipment.item, a graphic element, or a tag name for all Source fields shown beneath Use Customized Alarm Urgency References, then click OK.

     All fields must contain values and cannot be left blank. Expressions, external references, and custom properties can be entered in all fields.

7. Enter a custom property, a constant (True/False), an external reference, or an expression in the Show Alarm Indicator field to set the condition when an alarm indicator icon is shown or hidden.

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Configuring an Alarm Border Animation