Using the Focus Feature

The Focus feature allows you to focus in on one specific alarm to view the history for that alarm. For example, if you want to see just all Machine C alarms, select any Machine C alarm event in the table, and click on the Focus icon . This allows you to focus on the Target Alarm Source or the Event Id. The Alarm Source is simply the name, Machine C. Click on the Target Alarm Source option.

Once you click on the Target Alarm Source you will see all the Machine C alarms. You can see all the alarm event activity that occurred for Machine C, including the changes to the Active and Cleared states. You can then remove the Focus from Machine C and go back to see the complete list of all alarms by clicking on the Focus icon again.

You can also focus on a specific alarm; one specific event that already happened. In this example, Ramp 3/9/16 at 10:36 AM with an Active state was selected, and the Target Event Id was clicked.

Focusing on the Target Event Id will show you all the alarms occurring for that specific alarm event. You can see when the alarm went Active, when it was Cleared, and when it was Acknowledged. Click the Focus icon to remove the Focus and return to the complete list of all alarms.

When you have a big list of all alarm events, the Active, the Cleared and the Acknowledged states are not going to be in sequential order depending on when the event times actually happened so it helps to use the Focus feature to filter on alarms. Using the Focus feature, you can actually focus on one Target Alarm Source or the Target Event Id to look at when alarms occurred. It’s a nice way of filtering through the Alarm Journal Table without having to scroll through the entire list of alarms to match up the Alarm Events, Times and States.

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