Define a new filter

The Customize menu provides THREE functions that help you to define and edit filter criteria for for filters in the Alarm List or Event List: New Filter Edit Filter and Delete Filter.

To set a new filter, you must have selected Active Alarms/Alarm Log or Active Events/Event Log in the Tree View in the left-hand section of the screen.
You wish to see all acknowledged messages that have occurred in the period from April 10 to April 15, 1997. We will define and save three filter conditions and logically link them by an AND operator. This filter criterion is then saved under the name of “Filter1”.

Procedure

Press Customize ® New Filter.
The dialogue Defining Filters for Alarm List is opened.
Under Edit Conditions, define the Begin Date.

Click Add to List to save the first condition in the Existing Filter Conditions table.
Select the logical operator AND.
Now define the End Date and again save it with Add to List.
Again, select AND as the logical operator.
Finally, define the third condition:
Property: Acknowledge Date
Condition: between
Value: set date and time of the interval
Save the third condition with Add to List.
Now name the new filter $images\DEF_NEW_FIL_NAM.gif$
Confirm / Save with $images\ebd_Ebd32.gif$ .

To display a list containing only those messages that meet the new filter criteria, close the Defining Filters for Alarm List dialogue and navigate to the Tree View, on the left-hand section of the screen. Click Active Alarms and select Filter1.

The Alarm Log has the default filter Past 1day Log which may have been enabled or disabled for your application by the system design engineer. This standard filter can neither be changed nor deleted.

Format as 'Alarm Print'

If this option is selected, up to three extra lines will be shown for each alarm. These will show the historic object value, as it was, when the alarm was started, acknowledged or ended. This format is equal to the format used for alarm list printouts.