Alarms in UDTs

You can configure alarms inside of the UDT definitions. Every instance of the UDT will have the same alarm configurations, but they will be specific to that instance of UDT.

Configuring an Alarm on a UDT Member.

To configure an alarm on a UDT

  1. Edit the UDT definition by accessing it in the Data Types folder.

  2. Select the tag and add an alarm inside the UDT definition. Its configurations are the same as the normal alarm configuration on a tag.

  3. Click OK.

All instances of the UDT will have a similar alarm setup but each alarm will be unique to that UDT instance.


Dynamic Setpoints in UDTs

You can configure alarms with dynamic set points inside of a UDT definition. It is similar to configuring a UDT alarm, however configuring a UDT alarm with dynamic set point requires additional tags to serve as these set points in all the deployed UDTs.

To configure dynamic set points inside a UDT

  1. In the Tag Browser, go to the Data Types folder, and choose Edit tags to edit the UDT definition.

  2. Create memory tags inside the UDT definition.

  3. Select the tag and its alarm inside the UDT definition that has the alarm you want to associate the UDT with.

  4. Bind the Setpoint property to the new UDT memory tags.

  5. Click OK.
    All of the deployed UDT will have memory tags that serve as the alarm set points.