Active Alarms exist notification binding

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I have a notification icon with a configured event that has a popup with an alarm table component. I am passing a parameter to the alarm table that filters on the displayPath. This portion works great. I want to the notification icon to turn red if any active alarms exist. I am trying to find some sort of property that will provide this data. Has anyone ever done this or have any idea what property I could use to gather enough info to perform this logic?

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I do this in a gateway script for my display paths with a query similar to:

active = system.alarm.queryStatus(state=["ActiveUnacked"])

You can then compare the number returned and set/reset a boolean tag used for your widget.

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Thanks, ill give this a shot, sounds like it would work for what I need.

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If you only plan on having 1 tag provider (or don’t care which tag provider the alarm is in) [System]Gateway/Alarming folder has tags that probably have exactly what you need.

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Unfortunately that won’t work. I need it filtered down to an individual facility.

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This worked out perfect! Wrote to a tag on each UDT and was able to bind / transform to our liking.

Thanks,

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Don’t go too crazy with that function in clients or tag scripts.

Depending on where you are calling it, how many instances, how often, etc.

It can really bog down a client or the gateway.

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Ill monitor, I have it set to run every 90 secs (running as a Gateway Event). It retrieves the count for roughly 6000 facilities and writing to the same. I noticed it took around 10 seconds to run the script.