Implementing Audible Alarms

The tab style templates project offers support for audible alarms. You can configure a project so that a selected wav file is sounded whenever an alarm of a particular priority is triggered. You can even assign different sounds to different alarm priorities, allowing the urgency of an alarm to be determined from its sound.

1. Verify that the alarms you want to trigger an audible alert are assigned to a category and given a particular priority.
2. Adjust the parameter [Alarm]Soundn. This parameter determines the wav file used when an alarm sounds, based on the priority of the alarm (n). For example, [Alarm]Sound1 identifies the .wav file that will be sounded whenever a priority 1 alarm is triggered.
3. If necessary, adjust the parameter [Alarm]SoundnInterval. This parameter determines how long the selected wav file sounds, based on the priority of the alarm (n). For example, [Alarm]Sound1Interval sets the length of time a priority 1 alarm is sounded for.
4. Verify that your users have appropriate privileges associated with their login to silence alarms, otherwise they will not be able to silence an alarm. See Creating a Privileged User and the parameter [Privilege]SilenceAlarms.

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