Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk View Site Edition Users Guide - Manual (Page 230)

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In the User Msgs tab of the Alarm Setup editor, you can define the content of:
 In Alarm messages, which are logged when an analog tag’s alarm threshold has been
crossed, or when a digital tag has changed state.
 Out of Alarm messages, which are logged when a tag is no longer in alarm.
 Acknowledged messages, which are logged when an alarm has been acknowledged.
For details about options in the User Msgs tab, click Help.
Defining the content of the message
To define the content of a message, use any combination of system default messages, user
default messages, and custom messages.
System default messages are a series of placeholders. At run time, these placeholders
are replaced with information about the alarm that has been triggered.
Alarm messages appear in HMI tag alarm log files, not in HMI tag alarm summaries.
This placeholder Is replaced with
\C Current value of the tag.
\D Date when the message is sent.
To create a user-
default message,
type the message in
the appropriate box.
You can create user
messages for logging
to a file or a printer.