Changing Alarm Border Indicator Icons

Alarm border animation shows an indicator icon at the top left corner of the border with alarm severity as a number from 1 to 4 if your HMI/SCADA software supports it. Other indicator images represent alarm suppressed, silenced and shelved modes.

A default Alarm Border indicator image is assigned to each alarm mode and severity level. The default images appear in the Image fields of the Alarm and Event Priority Mapping and Historization dialog box. The images are saved in an XML file. For details about the location of the file, refer to your HMI/SCADA software documentation.

The default Alarm Border indicator images can be replaced by custom images. Supported image file types include .bmp, .gif, .jpg, .jpeg, .tif, .tiff, .png, .ico and .emf.

To replace Alarm Border indicator images

1. Create Alarm Border indicator images that will replace the default indicator images.

2. Navigate to the Alarm Priority Mapping configuration dialog. The Alarm and Event Priority Mapping and Historization dialog box appears.

   The navigation path will differ according to your HMI/SCADA software. Typically, the path will be through menu items to configure your project or application components.

3. Click the Search button next to the Alarm Border indicator or mode image to be replaced. The Open dialog box appears to locate the replacement Alarm Border indicator images.

4. Go to the folder containing the replacement images.

5. Select an image file and click Open.

6. Verify the new Alarm Border indicator image replaced the original image in the Alarm and Event Priority Mapping and Historization dialog box.

At run time, Alarm Border animation reads the XML file from the location where it is stored. If images are not available from the XML file, an Alarm Indicator does not appear during Alarm Border animation.

Related Topics

Configuring Optional Alarm Border Animation Characteristics