Alarm displays – MoTeC Display Creator User Manual
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Display Creator User Manual – MoTeC Ⓒ 2014 Published 1 July 2014
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Alarm Displays
An Alarm Display element is a parent or group element. Its child elements are used to display the alarm
information (alarms are defined on the Alarm tab) when they become active. See
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More than one Alarm Display element can be included on the Overlay Page and on any other page, see
. This allows flexibility in the presentation of different alarms.
An Alarm Display element can have any number of the alarms from the Alarm tab associated with it. This
allows the same area on the display to be used for multiple alarms.
To setup:
1.
Place an Alarm Display element on the page.
2.
Select the Alarm Display and use the right-click menu to insert the alarm (child) elements.
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Only alarm elements from the Alarm Display right-click menu will be associated with the Alarm
Display.
The following applies for each Alarm Display element:
• At least one alarm should be assigned
• Inserting elements into the Alarm Display element can only be done by selecting it and using the right-click
menu. Consider the following:
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At least one of either Alarm Icon, Alarm Message or Alarm Channel Value elements should be
inserted. See
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For graphical and informational purposes; Rectangle, Ellipse and static Text elements can also be
inserted as, or if required.
• Can contain as many Alarm icon, Alarm Message and Alarm Channel Value elements as wanted.
However, the same alarm information is displayed in each.
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To display information from two or more different alarms at the same time, create a separate Alarm
Display element for each alarm and assign the appropriate alarm to each.
• Any elements inserted into an Alarm Display element can be placed anywhere on the page, not necessarily
just within the bounds of the Alarm Display element. Regardless of their location, all included elements
move in relation to the Alarm Display element as it is moved.
• The appearance (background) is essentially a rectangle that cannot be deleted. It can however have its fill
hidden (making it transparent), or the fill colour opacity adjusted to suit.