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Setting up FactoryTalk alarms Chapter 12
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For level alarms, you can create different messages for each alarm
level (High High, High, Low, Low, Low). The alarm limit must be
selected in the Level tab, for the message box to be available.
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.
Tip: 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.
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 Creating embedded variables on page 573.