Selection Header

This is where selection criteria are made to select a view of alarms generated by Trigger Alarms.

Parts of the selection Header:

• Message - This displays details of the alarms loaded into the grid. “Showing top N alarms”, or can be “showing alarms from Date1 to Date2”
• Select Range Type - This can be set to retrieve the N most recent alarms in the text box. The default number that appears on this control is set in the widget configuration.
• Data Range - Click this radio button and use the Date and time selectors to define a period to display alarm for
• Status - Can be set to a specific status of an alarm, closed, generated, Manually Slept etc. The full range available in this select box is determined by the configured alarm workflow actions within the deployed 4D Analytics system.
• Type - The list will show alarm “types” that are configured to be displayed in the alarm list. Alarm Trigger, which this document deals with is one of these “Types”
• Reason - Any configured reason in the system can be picked here as a selection criterion
• Auto Refresh Tick Box - The widget may be configured to allow auto refresh at a defined period, 1 min, 5 min, 10 mins etc. This control shows the refresh period and also allows temporary disabling of the refresh by unticking this checkbox. Ticking/unticking takes immediate effect and no click of the action “Go” button is required.
• Go Button - Clicking this button will use the current criteria set in the selection header and fetch Alarm details from the database into the Alarm List on screen.

Alarm List

• Paging element - Paging is an option that can be configured in the widget to be on/off and define a number of records per page to be displayed. Where there are many multiple pages they will be displayed here as below.
  
• Pages beyond 10 can be accessed with the right arrow button.
• Alarm List Columns - Each column can have an in grid filter on its header, can be configured to be visible or not. Have a specific starting width, and have the column title set within the widget.
• Notification Column (no heading) - This will show a notification icon if a notification was sent to any alarm contacts. Visual representation of an email, an SMS or notification to external alarm list (or combination of those). Hover over the icon to get a text representation of what was notified. Where no notification was sent (no contact subscribed to alarm when it was generated etc.) then this column will be blank in the alarm row. Whilst notification is pending (alarm generated but email/SMS not sent yet, system is currently processing) a spinning busy icon will appear here.
  • Individual icons are:
    • Notification Pending
      
    • Email
      
    • SMS
      
    • External Alarm List
      
• Purpose column - Shows the purpose of the alarm trigger that raised the alarm.
• Reason - Shows the reason of the alarm trigger that raised this alarm.
• Entity - For Trigger Alarms this will be the name of the point that the alarm breach occurred on
• Generated Time - This is the time that the alarm breach triggered
• Data Timetag - This is the time from standarddata that the data value caused the breach.
• Breach - Shows the breach conditions of the trigger that caused the alarm to be generated.
• Breach Value - The actual data value from standarddata that is in breach of the alarm trigger condition
• Status - The last status (workflow) message attached to the alarm.
• Manual Sleep column (untitled) - If an alarm has an autosleep defined as it then this column will be blank for that alarm row. Alarms that are autoslept cannot be manually slept. Otherwise a grey clock icon will show here allowing the user to manually sleep the alarm for a (System defined) amount of minutes. Clicking on the clock icon will set the alarm trigger to sleep and will be indicated on screen by any alarm icon for an alarm generated by that trigger going red. A message of the ‘sleep until’ time will be displayed on clicking this and then on hover over of the red clock icon a message tooltip will show the sleep until time. This icon can be clicked again and the sleep time countdown will restart from when it is clicked.