Right-click the alarm bar to open the context menu. These options control which types of events to show in the alarm bar and how to color trend lines when limit violations and alarms occur.
The options in this menu change based on whether limits are enabled for the tag and whether the tag has any alarms defined against it. The menu is broken into four possible sections:
•Manual Events
•Limit-Based Events
•Alarm Server Events
•Trend Line Coloring
Manual Events
Show Manually Created Alarm Events: Whether or not to show manually created alarm events, including those created by users or saved from calculated events.
Limit-Based Events
Calculate {Limit Type} Alarm Events: Whether to calculate for events for the selected limit type.
Show State Tag {Limit Type} Alarm Events: Whether to show events from a state tag, if configured for the selected limit type.
Alarm Server Events
Show {‘Alarm Name’} Alarm Events: Whether to show events from the selected alarm.
Trend Line Coloring
These options control whether to change the trend line color when limit violations or alarms occur. The color of the trend line is configured in Tag Limits.
Color Based on Limits: Change trend line color when it crosses a limit line.
Color Based on Alarm Events: Change trend line color over the duration of an alarm event.