Alarm Page Templates

Alarm page templates are included for the following types of alarm displays:

• Active Alarm Page: Used to create a page displaying active alarms that are unacknowledged or acknowledged and still in alarm state. The template has the equipment tree-view panel displayed on the left hand side of the page for filtering of the display list. The tree-view will display a hierarchy of equipment available to the currently logged on user. The template also includes vertical and horizontal scroll bars to allow users to view columns and rows off screen. To create a default active alarm page for your project, create a new page based on the alarm template. By default, the name of the page is expected to be "Alarm". However, you can change the name of the page by adjusting the setting for the INI parameter [Page]AlarmPage.
• Disabled Alarm Page : Used to create a page displaying alarms that are presently disabled in the system. The alarms will appear on this page when they have been disabled from the normal alarm system due to a maintenance shutdown, nuisance tripping etc. The template has the equipment tree-view panel displayed on the left hand side of the page for filtering of the display list. The tree-view will display a hierarchy of equipment available to the currently logged on user. To create a default disabled alarm page for your project, create a new page based on the disabled template. By default, the name of the page is expected to be "Disabled". However, you can change the name of the page by adjusting the setting for the INI parameter [Page]DisabledPage.
• Sequence of Events Page: Used to create a page displaying a snapshot of every state transition of an alarm instance that have occurred. The template has the equipment tree-view panel displayed on the left hand side of the page for filtering of the display list. When configured the tree-view will display a hierarchy of equipment available to the currently logged on user. To create a default SOE alarm page for your project, create a new page based on the soe template. By default, the name of the page is expected to be "SOE". However, you can change the name of the page by adjusting the setting for the INI parameter, [Page]SOEPage. Unlike the active, hardware, and disabled alarm pages, that are refreshed automatically at runtime to display real time data, the SOE and summary pages display a snapshot of events that have occurred, therefore is not updated automatically. To retrieve the latest events you can manually refresh the page.
• Alarm Summary Page : Used to create a page displaying a historical log of alarms that have occurred. This page can be used for troubleshooting purposes.The template has the equipment tree-view panel displayed on the left hand side of the page for filtering of the display list. When configured the tree-view will display a hierarchy of equipment available to the currently logged on user. To create a default summary alarm page for your project, create a new page based on the summary template. By default, the name of the page is expected to be "Summary". However, you can change the name of the page by adjusting the setting for the INI parameter [Page]SummaryPage.

The alarm templates display alarm lists using a "no draw" mode. The display of alarm fields is handled by a new set of template specific Cicode functions and genies to control each of the alarm fields' position and size. The alarm list is installed with a callback event function to redraw the alarm list upon data change. The "no draw" mode and data change callback event are supported by a modified form of the existing Cicode function AlarmDsp().

Published June 2018