20.3.1 Procedure - Viewing Active Alarms in a List

  1. From the [Common Settings (R)] menu, select [Alarm (A)], or click . The following screen appears. In [Language], select the alarm message display language.

  2. Select the [Enable Summary] check box.

  3. When the following notice message appears, click [Yes]. The [Summary] tab is displayed.

  4. In [Bit Address], set the bit address to monitor the alarm trigger.

    • Do not use the same address for multiple monitoring bits. When the same address is used for multiple monitoring bits, only the alarm message having the smallest registration number (Row Number) is displayed.

    • Use consecutive Bit Addresses to set up the monitor bit for the message you want to display on 1 screen. If you set up monitor bits on different devices, or within the same device but in nonconsecutive Bit Addresses, you cannot display the message on the same screen.

  5. In the [Message] column, enter a message to display when an alarm is triggered, and specify [Text Color], [Background Color], and [Blink].

    • Up to 160 single-byte characters can be registered in a single Alarm Message.

    • When the [Enable Text Table] check box is selected, the message language can be switched and displayed even while the system is running.
      18.3 Changing Text to Other Languages

  6. Open the screen editor and set up the Alarm part. In the [Parts (P)] menu, select [Alarm (A)], or click and place the Part on the screen.

  1. Double-click the placed Alarm. The Alarm dialog box appears. Select [Summary].

  1. In [Start Address of Words to Monitor], set the start address of the Bit Address registered in [Alarm] by using the value converted into a 16-bit Word. For example, to display the message of the registered monitoring bit "M1000" in a Summary, specify "M992" in [Start Address of Words to Monitor], because addresses from M992 to M1008 are included in one Word.

  1. In [Words to Monitor], allocate monitoring bit addresses by defining the number of Words from the [Monitoring Word Address].

  2. Set the [Display Characters], [Display Start Row], and [Display Alarms] of the message to be displayed on the screen.

  3. Set the color to be used when Alarm Message is recovered and cleared in the [Color] tab, then set the font and size of the message in the [Display] tab, and click [OK].