Alarm Page Templates

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Templates are included for the following types of alarm displays:

Active Alarm Page (Alarm): Used to create a page displaying active alarms that are unacknowledged or acknowledged and still in alarm state.To create a default active alarm page for your project, create a new page based on this 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.
Hardware Alarm Page (Hardware): Used to create a page displaying details of any system errors that are unacknowledged or acknowledged and still in alarm state, for example, if communications are lost, if Cicode can't execute, if a graphics page is not updating correctly, or if a server becomes inoperative, this page will alert you. To create a default hardware alarm page for your project, create a new page based on this template. By default, the name of the page is expected to be "Hardware". However, you can change the name of the page by adjusting the setting for the INI parameter [Page]HardwarePage.
Disabled Alarm Page (Disabled): 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. To create a default disabled alarm page for your project, create a new page based on this 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 (SOE): Used to create a page displaying a snapshot of all state transitions of an alarm instance that have occurred. To create a default SOE page for your project, create a new page based on this 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, disabled 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 (Summary): Used to create a page displaying a historical log of alarms that have occurred. This page can be used for troubleshooting purposes. To create a default alarm summary page for your project, create a new page based on this 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.

CAUTION Summary data is not automatically refreshed at runtime. Manually refresh the Summary page before using its data for analysis of plant state.

The alarm templates (except the hardware alarm template) 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