Movicon Help on Line - Rel. 11.7.1301
The Alarm Threshold Style Properties allow you to define the graphic and operating styles.
To modify the Alarm Threshold Style settings, select the threshold the mouse and use the Movicon 'Properties Window'.
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By means of the 'Support ACK' and 'Support RESET' properties you can define whether the operator is needed to acknowledge and reset the alarms. When these two properties are disabled the alarms will be displayed according to the associated variable status only, and therefore a simple display Message. |
This selection box permits you to determine whether you want the alarm acknowledgement (ACK) activated or not.
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When the "Support ACK" property is enabled with the "Support RESET" property disabled, once the alarm has been acknowledged it will disappear from the Alarm Window even though its status is still active. |
When this option is active while the alarm is acknowledged, a window will appear showing information relating to that alarm with editable space at the bottom for the user to enter a comment. (for further information please refer to "Comments on Alarm Acknowledged").
This selection box permits you to determine whether you want the alarm reset (RESET) activated or not.
If you disable an Alarm threshold's "Support Reset" option, the alarm will remain on screen active until conditions from the field satisfy the threshold Execution properties (Activation Value and Activation Condition) even when Acknowledged. As soon as the threshold's activation conditions are no longer true, the "Alarm Off" event will be historically logged and the Alarm will disappear from screen once acknowledged or straight away if already acknowledged.
This function is determined by the "NoAlarmStatusOnACK" DWord value in the system registry's "General" key (or Movicon.ini file) which is set the False value (0) for default . When this value is set to the True Value (1), the Alarm will disappear from the Alarm window once Acknowledged even though the conditions from the field are still keeping the threshold active.
When this property is enabled the alarm ON and OFF times will include a TimeStamp (date and time of last modification executed) of the variable that generated it. The Variable's TimStamp is set from the communication driver and the OPC management.
In additon to this and as usual the event in question will be recorded in the Historical Log with the TimeStamp of the variable that generated it.
This function could be handy in situations where the variable's value is notified to Movicon with a delay time in respect to its effective variation. For instance, in a OPC communication, the Server may happen to be in Client refresh mode for a few seconds. In this case the variable TimeStamp will nevertheless be received by the Server indicating the actual time in which the variable effectively changed in the Server.
The "Use Variable TimeStamp" can be also read and modified in runtime using the "DateTimeFromTimeStamp" property from the "AlarmThresholdCmdTarget".
This property can be disabled to prevent alarms from being reset when their status is still ON.
This selection box permits you to determine whether or not to active the alarm blinking function the moment the alarm activates.
This property is not currently in use. To print alarms you need to use the report functions which can be activated with the "Alarm Commands" from the "Command List".
This selection box permits you to determine whether or not to activate the recording in the Historical Log of alarms or messages upon the relative ON, OFF, ACK, RESET events. These recordings will be contained in the "Alarms" table of the Historical Log Database created by Movicon in the defined format or in the Alarms.dat file,depending on the data source you are using (ODBC or IMDB)
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If you are using the ODBC connection, the Historical Log is created with the Movicon default settings, but the Historical Log file can be customized when put into use, where you can create a personalized ODBC link and define a different table name. These functionalities can be carried out from the Project's "Historical Log Settings". |
This property allows you to decide whether the alarm threshold should make a beep sound when the alarm is activated.
This property allows you to set an alarm image. The image will be displayed as an icon in one of the alarm window's columns. The image set in the alarm threshold has priority over the one set in the variable. This property cannot be modified using VBA language.
This property allows you to set a alarm sound wav. file which will activate when the alarm activates. The sound set in the alarm threshold has priority over any one set in the variable. This property cannot be modified using VBA language.
When more than one alarm have been associated an audio file to be executed when the alarm turns ON, this file is executed according to the alarm priorities. For example, when an alarm turns ON, when other alarms associated with audio files, are already ON, the new alarm will executed the audio file only when its priority is greater than those already present. Note that the "1" priority is the lowest.
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When the Alarm Window's "Abilita Suono" button is active, the threshold's Beep property will behave differently in the following cases:
When the Alarm Window's "Abilita Suono" button in both Windows 32 bit and 64 bits systems, is not active, the alarm sound is only executed for those alarms which have been set with a customized audio file (independently from the relating Threshold's Beep property). |
This check box permits you to define the behaviour of the sound files associated to the alarms. By activating the property the file will be executed continuously until it is acknowledged. Otherwise the file will only be executed once when the alarm appears.
This property allows you to enable the speeching functions for vocal synthesis of the text string which builds the alarm. The alarm's text will then be pronounced by Movicon when it occurs if the PC being used has been equipped with an audio card and speakers. You will also need to ensure that the phonemes, to be used in pronouncing the text, have been installed with language desired. The phonemes are used to pronounce the text by interpreting the pronunciation of the language selected. The phonemes are normally supplied separately and therefore it is the user's responsibility to get and install the ones desired. However, by using Movicon's customized installation you can select some of the most commonly used phonemes.
This property allows you to set the repeat time of the alarm's Speech. When setting this property with a '0' value the alarm's speech will be repeated once only. This time must also be set allowing enough time for the alarm's speech to be executed.
This selection box is used for selecting a variable which will determine the activation of the alarm's speech. When the selected variable obtains a value different from (><0), the alarm's text will be spoken when the alarm is activated. When the variable obtains a '0' value the Speech will result disabled.
This property is dedicated to selecting the colour to be associated to background relating to the alarms or messaged display in the appropriated window.
Selecting colours is done according to the standard selection modes using the colour palette.
You can reset the set colours (restoring those of default) by selecting the 'Automatic' option found on the colour palette.
This property is dedicated to selecting the colours to be associated to the texts relating to the alarms or messages displayed in the appropriated window.
Selecting colours is done according to the standard selection modes using the colour palette.
You can reset the set colours (restoring those of default) by selecting the 'Automatic' option found on the colour palette.
This property is dedicated to selecting the colour to be associated to the background relating to the alarms or messages displayed in the appropriated window during the blinking phase.
Selecting colours is done according to the standard selection modes using the colour palette.
You can reset the set colours (restoring those of default) by selecting the 'Automatic' option found on the colour palette.
This property is dedicated to selecting the colour to be associated to the text relating to the alarms or messages displayed in the appropriated window during the blinking phase.
Selecting colours is done according to the standard selection modes using the colour palette.
You can reset the set colours (restoring those of default) by selecting the 'Automatic' option found on the colour palette.
