Set colors for unacknowledged alarms

You can set the text and background colors for records of unacknowledged alarms. For each of the priority ranges, you can set a text color and a background color. Use the AlarmColor.UnAck.ForeGround Property and AlarmColor.UnAck.BackGround Property property groups in scripting to set the text color and background color for unacknowledged alarms in each priority range at run time.

To set colors for unacknowledged alarm records

1. Double-click the Alarm Control on the canvas. The Edit Animations dialog box appears.

2. Click Colors. The Colors page appears.

3. In the list at the right, locate the Unack record and priority range for which you want to change the text or background color.

4. Click the color box in the Text or Background column of the line. The color picker appears.

5. Select a color and click OK.

6. In the ApplyTo column of the line, click the dropdown arrow to select one of the following options:

   • Entire row - highlights the entire row.

   • Severity - highlights only the Severity column.

   • Priority - highlights only the Priority column.

     

     By default Entire row is selected. Note that Severity column is available only in Historical Mode with History Blocks.

7. Click OK.