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Writing to alarm properties

If you have the necessary access rights, you can write to the following alarm properties. (Remember, the value you write to the property relates to the description. For example, if you set a digital alarm property to 1, you are making the description TRUE. If you set it to 0 (zero), you are making it FALSE.)

Property

Description

Input Type

.Ack

Alarm acknowledged (once acknowledged cannot be "unacknowledged")

Digital

.Deadband

Alarm Deadband

Real

.Deviation

Deviation from setpoint

Real

.Disabled

Alarm disabled

Digital

.HighHigh

High High

Real

.High

High

Real

.LowLow

Low Low

Real

.Low

Low

Real

.HHDelay

High High delay

Long

.HDelay

High delay

Long

.LDelay

Low delay

Long

.LLDelay

Low Low delay

Long

.DevDelay

Deviation delay

Long

.Custom1

.Custom2

.Custom3

.Custom4

.Custom5

.Custom6

.Custom7

.Custom8

Custom field

String

.Paging

Alarm paged

Boolean

.PagingGroup

Paging group alarm belongs to.

String

Analog alarm thresholds can also be changed using the AlarmSetThreshold() function.

Note the following:

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