Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk View Site Edition Users Guide - Manual (Page 232)

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Setting up alarm conditions for HMI tags
In the Tags editor, for each analog and digital tag you want to monitor for alarms, use the
Analog Alarm and Digital Alarm editors to specify conditions that will trigger an alarm.
To open the Tags editor
 In FactoryTalk View Studio, in the Explorer window, open the HMI Tags folder, right-
click the Tags icon, and then click Open.
You can set up alarms for a tag when you create the tag, or you can set up alarms later.
To add alarm conditions to an analog or digital tag
1. In the spreadsheet section of the Tags editor, select the analog or digital tag you want
to set up alarm conditions for.
2. In the form section of the Tags editor, select the check box beside the Alarm button.
To modify alarm conditions already set up for a tag
1. In the spreadsheet section of the Tags editor, select the analog or digital tag with alarm
conditions, that you want to modify.
2. In the form section of the Tags editor, click Alarm.
When a tag has an
alarm defined for it,
an X is shown in the
Alm column.
To add an alarm to
the selected tag, click
the Alarm check box
or button.