# Alarm Count filter **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [March 25, 2020, 11:48pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-count-filter/33419 "2020-03-25T23:48:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lachguerabdallah](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/lachguerabdallah/32/25558_2.png) [@lachguerabdallah](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/lachguerabdallah)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2020, 11:48pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-count-filter/33419/1 "2020-03-25T23:48:47Z")
I want to filter the alarm count according to the path i used: if({Alarm Count Label.states} = “”, 0, toInt(runScript(“len(system.alarm.queryStatus(state=[” + left({Alarm Count Label.states}, len({Alarm Count Label.states}) - 1) + “], source=[“_ABB_”,“_ADP_”]))”, {Alarm Count Label.UpdateRate})) ) it works but I want ‘source’ to be changed according to user roles like user roles=[ABB, ADP, other…] any ideas please? ---
**Author:** ![PEM.Kaleo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e56c9b/32.png) [@PEM.Kaleo](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/PEM.Kaleo)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 9:46am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-count-filter/33419/2 "2021-02-19T09:46:30Z")
Have you figured the user roles out yet? ---
**Author:** ![lachguerabdallah](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/lachguerabdallah/32/25558_2.png) [@lachguerabdallah](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/lachguerabdallah)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 9:56am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-count-filter/33419/3 "2021-02-19T09:56:12Z")
Yes, what do you want to do? ---
**Author:** ![PEM.Kaleo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e56c9b/32.png) [@PEM.Kaleo](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/PEM.Kaleo)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 10:00am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-count-filter/33419/4 "2021-02-19T10:00:35Z")
Actually what you used for filtering is exactly what I’m looking for. I just had an idea about using a client tag for your request though I assumed you might have figure it out already since this was posted in March. ---
**Author:** ![lachguerabdallah](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/lachguerabdallah/32/25558_2.png) [@lachguerabdallah](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/lachguerabdallah)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 3:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-count-filter/33419/5 "2021-02-19T15:45:40Z")
In the alarm count template, add an internal property ‘source’. put something like that: ```auto if(hasRole('operator'),'["prov:default:/tag:O*"]', if(hasRole('admin'),'["prov:default:/tag:A*"]', '["prov:default:/tag:*"]')) ``` then, you have to include the previous property ‘source’ in the property ‘count’ (the one that returns the number of alarms) something like this: ```auto if({Alarm Count Label v2.states} = "", 0, toInt(runScript("len(system.alarm.queryStatus(priority="+{Alarm Count Label v2.priority}+",state="+{Alarm Count Label v2.states}+",source="+{Alarm Count Label v2.source}+"))", {Alarm Count Label v2.UpdateRate})) ) ``` ---
**Author:** ![PEM.Kaleo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e56c9b/32.png) [@PEM.Kaleo](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/PEM.Kaleo)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 8:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-count-filter/33419/6 "2021-02-23T20:59:18Z")
thanks for sharing ---
**Author:** ![nminchin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nminchin/32/6911_2.png) [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 9:12pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-count-filter/33419/7 "2021-02-23T21:12:22Z")
Just note, if you’re using calls to queryStatus from the Vision gui, you’re going to be decreasing its performance as these calls take a long time relatively and will lock up the gui thread while they run. I’ve had clients perform extremely poorly with these calls. ---
**Author:** ![lachguerabdallah](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/lachguerabdallah/32/25558_2.png) [@lachguerabdallah](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/lachguerabdallah)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2021, 3:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-count-filter/33419/8 "2021-03-02T15:52:26Z")
Do you recommend using a gateway script instead of using an execution script in the expression? for the alarm counter it would be a gateway script that runs every 5 seconds or so ---
**Author:** ![nminchin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nminchin/32/6911_2.png) [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2021, 3:53pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-count-filter/33419/9 "2021-03-02T15:53:04Z")
I use a UDT. Note: you’ll need to create a new Tag Group called ‘Area Alarms’. I set mine to direct 3000ms. You can ignore the Area PLCs for Alarm Reset tag. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/f/e/fefadfc8869d1da04974dc2b319a1642e5f7f0fc.png) ```auto { "typeColor": -65536, "readOnly": false, "dataType": "Int4", "writePermissions": { "type": "AllOf", "securityLevels": [] }, "name": "Area Alarms", "readPermissions": { "type": "AllOf", "securityLevels": [] }, "tagGroup": "Default", "tagType": "UdtType", "enabled": true, "tags": [ { "valueSource": "expr", "expression": "jsonGet({[.]Alarm Summary}, \u0027ActiveUnacked\u0027)", "readOnly": false, "dataType": "Int4", "writePermissions": { "type": "AllOf", "securityLevels": [] }, "name": "Active Unack", "executionMode": "TagGroupRate", "readPermissions": { "type": "AllOf", "securityLevels": [] }, "tagGroup": "Area Alarms", "tagType": "AtomicTag", "enabled": true }, { "valueSource": "memory", "readOnly": false, "dataType": "DataSet", "writePermissions": { "type": "AllOf", "securityLevels": [] }, "name": "Area PLCs for Alarm Reset", "readPermissions": { "type": "AllOf", "securityLevels": [] }, "tagGroup": "Default", "value": "{\"columns\":[{\"name\":\"PLCName\",\"type\":\"java.lang.String\"},{\"name\":\"PLCParentPathOverride\",\"type\":\"java.lang.String\"},{\"name\":\"DisableAlarmReset\",\"type\":\"java.lang.Boolean\"}],\"rows\":[]}", "enabled": true, "tagType": "AtomicTag" }, { "valueSource": "expr", "expression": "runScript(\r\n\"shared.alarms.getAlarmSummary(\u0027\" + replace({PathToParentFolder}, \u0027Area Alarms\u0027, \u0027\u0027) + \"*\u0027)\"\r\n,2000\r\n)", "dataType": "Document", "name": "Alarm Summary", "tagType": "AtomicTag" }, { "valueSource": "expr", "expression": "jsonGet({[.]Alarm Summary}, \u0027ActiveAcked\u0027)", "readOnly": false, "dataType": "Int4", "writePermissions": { "type": "AllOf", "securityLevels": [] }, "name": "Active Ack", "executionMode": "TagGroupRate", "readPermissions": { "type": "AllOf", "securityLevels": [] }, "tagGroup": "Area Alarms", "tagType": "AtomicTag", "enabled": true }, { "valueSource": "expr", "expression": "runScript(\r\n\"system.dataset.toDataSet([\u0027source\u0027, \u0027name\u0027],[[str(a.source).split(\u0027:\u0027)[3], a.name] for a in system.alarm.queryStatus(priority\u003d[1,2,3,4], state\u003d[\u0027ActiveUnacked\u0027], path\u003d[\u0027*:/tag:\" + replace({PathToParentFolder}, {InstanceName},\u0027\u0027) + \"*\u0027])])\"\r\n\r\n, 2000\r\n)", "dataType": "DataSet", "name": "Active Unack Alarms", "tagType": "AtomicTag" } ] } ``` ---
**Author:** ![JimmyScrambles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cdc98d/32.png) [@JimmyScrambles](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/JimmyScrambles)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 12:18am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-count-filter/33419/10 "2022-02-11T00:18:43Z")
This looks like it will do exactly what I want, but I can’t see what’s happening at shared.alarms.getAlarmSummary. Can you show what that function is doing?