I recommend you explain what you are ultimately trying to do. If you are just wanting a count of alarms for a specific path, that is relatively easy and there are many posts on this forum already about it.
I would like to have a way of knowing if any PLC tag in a particular process area has an active alarm so that I can show in the HMI which areas have or do not have an active alarm. This could be used in a process overview display to show several process areas, and those with active alarms could have blinking red or something like that.
I think I would have to make use of the system.alarm.queryStatus function in a Python script. If tags for each process area are in separate folders, I could us…
I am trying to display a number of alarms that are active. However, I am trying to display certain alarms. I have the alarms that I am wanting to display in a group called “Spray Status”. Is there a way to display how many alarms are active in that group?