# Adding more Alarm Priorities

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/adding-more-alarm-priorities/99572>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** vision\
**Created:** [December 9, 2024, 8:20am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/adding-more-alarm-priorities/99572 "2024-12-09T08:20:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![jlandwerlen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@jlandwerlen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jlandwerlen)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 11:51am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/adding-more-alarm-priorities/99572/2 "2024-12-09T11:51:00Z")

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This question has come up before, perhaps search the forum, but priorities are hard coded so you can't add or remove or even change the name.

Edit, also this isn't a vision thing, it's a tag/platform thing.

Perhaps refer to ISA 18.2, it's quite clear on the number of priorities to use, it's not 7.

> [@Create New Alarm Priority/Class](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/create-new-alarm-priority-class/38736):
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> Hi all, I’ve been looking into Ignition as a potential SCADA solution for our future projects and came across smth that I can not figure out. In process industries it is very common to follow IEC 62682 (Alarm Management) standard. Long story short, it means that every project can and should define what alarms classes it want to use. Hence my question: is it possible to add new alarm priorities to the ones already defined in Ignition (Diagnostic/Low/Medium/High/Critical)? Or is it possible to …

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