Configure the runtime shortcut menu

You can configure the Alarm Control’s shortcut menu to show only selected options at run time. The shortcut menus showing historical alarms (or events) and current alarms (or recent alarms and events) are different.

For the current alarms Context menu, you can also show or hide entire shortcut submenus. Use the ContextMenu and the ShowContextMenu Property in scripting to control if shortcut menu items appear or not at run time.

To hide the Context menu

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

2. Click Run-Time Behavior. The Run-Time Behavior page appears.

3. Clear the Show Context Menu check box.

4. Click OK.

To show or hide Context menu options

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

6. Click Run-Time Behavior. The Run-Time Behavior page appears.

7. Make sure the Show Context Menu check box is selected.In the shortcut menu lists, do the following:

   1. Select the options you want to appear on the run-time Context menu (if applicable for the selected client mode).

   2. Clear the options you want to hide from the operator on the run-time Context menu.

8. Click OK.