Omron CX-Supervisor, User Manual

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Creating a New Alarm SECTION 8 Alarms
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When all the information has been provided for the new alarm, selecting the
OK button commits the new alarm to the alarms database, while the Cancel
button aborts this add operation.
8-4-1 Alarm Header Information
The name of the alarm is entered in the Name: field. The alarm name can be
constructed of up to 20 alphanumeric characters. Any other characters,
including spaces, generate an audible error, or an Invalid Alarm Name entered
message. This field is visible from the Alarm Editor dialog box.
The group to which this alarm is added is selected from the Group: field. To
create a new group name, simply type the name of the new group in the
Group: field. The use of alarm groups allows filtering of alarm messages by
group name.
The priority assigned to the alarm is selected from the Priority: field.
The Display Alarm Acknowledge dialog box setting determines whether the
Acknowledge Alarm dialog box opens in runtime when the alarm occurs. The
dialog box notifies the operator of the alarm condition and allows the operator
to acknowledge the alarm. The default value is True.
Activating the Auto Acknowledge Alarm setting causes these messages to be
acknowledged without any operator action. Refer to chapter 8, Alarm
Acknowledge.
Note: The short-cut keyboard combinations for Cut, Copy and Paste operations are
valid within the Add Alarm dialog box. Highlight part or all of a field and type
<Ctrl>+X to cut the text or <Ctrl>+C to copy the text. Insert the cursor at the
desired field and type <Ctrl>+V to paste the text. Since the cut and copy
operations store the information in the Windows Clipboard, it may be pasted to
another dialog box or application.