AlarmPriorityCategories

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AlarmPriorityCategories

The AlarmPriorityCategories element is the parent node that defines the Alarm Priority Categories available for the specified point scheme. There can be a total of seven Alarm Priority Categories (1-7).

Note: See Alarm Priority, Alarm Priority Category, and Alarm Category for an overview of Alarm Priority Category uses in CygNet.

Properties

The following table lists and describes the properties of the AlarmPriorityCategories element.

Property	Description
Case Sensitive	Yes
Required	Yes
Number of Instances Allowed	1
Requires End Tag	Yes
Parent Element	CvsMetadataDefinition
Child Element	AlarmPriorityCategory

AlarmPriorityCategory

The AlarmPriorityCategory element contains the attributes used to configure the alarm priority category.

Properties

The following table lists and describes the properties of the AlarmPriorityCategory element.

Property	Description
Case Sensitive	Yes
Required	Yes
Number of Instances Allowed	7
Requires End Tag	No
Parent Element	AlarmPriorityCategories
Attributes	id name desc lower upper facinfovalue soundvalue

Attributes

The following table lists and describes attributes generally applicable to the AlarmPriorityCategory element.

Attribute	Description
id	The numerical id of the alarm priority category. Note: Range of 1 - 7. Value must be unique.
name	The name of the alarm priority category. This attribute is user-defined. Some options are None, Low, Medium, High, and Critical.
desc	The description of the alarm priority category.
lower	The lower bound number assigned to the alarm priority category.
upper	The upper bound number assigned to the alarm priority category.
facinfovalue	The facility info value works in conjunction with the SYFACINFO system UDC. The value of this attribute corresponds to the FACINFO enumeration table and is used to populate points with the SYFACINFO UDC. Options are: 0 — Normal 1 — Warnings Exist 2 — Alarms Exist
soundvalue	This attribute is used for transitioning sound settings from an older version of the CAS View Control to the current version and has been retained for backwards compatibility.

Example

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