Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk View Site Edition Users Guide - Manual (Page 285)

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For details about options in the Alarm Message Editor, click Help.
Modifying an existing alarm message
To modify an existing alarm message, use one of these methods:
 In the Alarm and Event Setup editor, click the Messages tab, and then double-click the
message you want to modify.
 In the Digital, Level, or Deviation Alarm Properties dialog box, under the Message
box, click Edit.
Adding variables to alarm messages
In the Alarm Message Editor, you can embed one or more variables into alarm messages.
For example, you might embed variables for the input tag value and the alarm’s severity.
At run time, the message will show the value of the tag and the alarm severity, at the times
the message is logged.
For details about embedding variables in an alarm message, and the syntax that variables
use, click Help in the Alarm Message Editor.
For information about using variables in other parts of a FactoryTalk View SE application,
see Chapter 21, Creating embedded variables.
When you modify an message, changes are copied wherever the message is used. To check the
number of alarms a message is assigned to, in the Alarm and Event Setup editor, click the
Messages tab. The number is shown beside the message, in the Usage column.
Type the message
text in this box.
Select a variable
to insert in the
alarm message.
Click to insert the
selected variable,
where the cursor is
positioned.
Message identifier