Change alarm group: Press this button to get the selection tree of the alarm configuration, which offers all alarm groups currently defined. Choose the desired group (which even may contain just one alarm).

Note: The name of the alarm group, as it is displayed here (e.g. "System/Alarmgroup1") can be used as PREFIX in a XML file for dynamic texts in order to get dynamic language switching for the message texts in the alarm table; the associated ID in this must be the number of that line in the Alarm group configuration table, that defines the respective message text.

Priority: Define the priority for which you want to get displayed all alarms. Permissible range: 0 to 255.

Alarm classes: Mark a class which you want to get displayed and press button Add to add the class to the list in the window 'Alarm classes'. Do this for all required classes. In order to remove a marked entry from the alarm classes window press button Delete.

Activate options Column heading resp. Row heading, if the headings should be displayed in the alarm table.

Sort column: Sorting according to Priority, Alarm class, Date/Time or Alarm state

Sort order: Ascending or Descending;

Example: Ascending  according to priority means that the table will start with alarms of priority 0 (if available), followed by higher numbered priorities.

Selection color: This button opens the standard dialog or a target-specific selection list for choosing a color. Define the color in which selected fields should be displayed.

Row height: Height of the table rows in Pixel.

Slider size: Height of the slider (Pixel) at the bottom of the table.

Frame around selected rows: If this option is activated, selected table rows will get a frame.

Show statusline: If this option is activated, below the alarm table a status bar will be displayed providing the following buttons for the operation in online mode:

• Acknowledge: All alarm entries marked in the alarm table get acknowledged.

• Acknowledge all: All alarm entries listed in the alarm table get acknowledged.

• History: If this button is pressed, instead of the current status of the alarms the table will show a complete list of all events which have occurred up to now (all transitions between any alarm stati). In this list no acknowledgement is possible ! Any new events will be added currently.

  If you have defined a record file, also there you will find this history for all alarm classes, for which the action 'Save' has been activated.

• Start: cancels Stop (see below)

• Stop: the current update of the list with newly occurring events will be stopped until it is restarted by pressing button 'Start'.

Acknowledge variables: This option is only available as long as you have not chosen option 'Show statusline' (see above). If it is activated, the functions described above for the status string buttons can get controlled by variables. In order to define these variables, choose a function from the selection list and enter a project variable in the assigned edit field. Thus for example the acknowledgement of all alarms in online mode can be done by a rising edge of the assigned variable.