# Additional levels of alarm priority/severity

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/additional-levels-of-alarm-priority-severity/21312>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition79\
**Created:** [December 10, 2018, 4:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/additional-levels-of-alarm-priority-severity/21312 "2018-12-10T16:28:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![jkirchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/278dde/32.png) [@jkirchman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jkirchman)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2018, 4:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/additional-levels-of-alarm-priority-severity/21312/1 "2018-12-10T16:28:43Z")

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Hi everyone,

We are currently trying to meet a spec requirement on alarm severity where we are required to give each alarm a severity level with int values 1-9. From what I can tell, Ignition only allows 0-4 (diagnostic, low, etc.). Is there any way to expand these options or a work around?

My first plan was to just use Associated Data, but I don’t believe there is a way to make this work well the the Alarm Status Component. (e.g. display as a column and sorting).

I also tried just binding the Priority level to an int value higher than 4. The binding worked without error, but I believe is overridden to 4 when the alarm is generated because alarms still show as “Very High” priority on the Alarm Status Component.

The only other thing I can think of is using the Notes property. This would allow showing the severity on the Alarm Status Component as a column, but not allow sortation based on priority. I’d rather not have to do this because I don’t think there is anyway to override the “Notes” column header.

Thanks!