# Alarm Enable/Disable - AKA AlertExecEnabled Issue

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-enable-disable-aka-alertexecenabled-issue/2469>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [January 1, 2011, 5:38pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-enable-disable-aka-alertexecenabled-issue/2469 "2011-01-01T17:38:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![RRNut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8e7dd6/32.png) [@RRNut](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/RRNut)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 5:38pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-enable-disable-aka-alertexecenabled-issue/2469/1 "2011-01-01T17:38:36Z")

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I have a tag change script that enables/disables AlertExecEnabled for a tag when certian conditions exist. Everytime the alerts are enabled or disabled, the tag overlay of the affected tag shows up for a split second on all clients. Is this normal? How can this be prevented from occuring? Everytime this occurs the operators think something is wrong.

Thank

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**Author:** ![Travis.Cox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Travis.Cox](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Travis.Cox)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 4:25pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-enable-disable-aka-alertexecenabled-issue/2469/2 "2011-01-03T16:25:45Z")

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Yes this is normal. When you change the AlertExecEnabled the tag gets reset causing the overlay. I don’t think there is a way right now to change this behaviour aside from opting out on the quality overlay on the component.

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**Author:** ![Colby.Clegg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/colby.clegg/32/3282_2.png) [@Colby.Clegg](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Colby.Clegg)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 7:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-enable-disable-aka-alertexecenabled-issue/2469/3 "2011-01-03T19:46:49Z")

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This has been fixed for 7.1.9. In addition to flashing bad quality, it was causing additional alert emails to be sent for some customers (depending on the notification setup- the tag sends a “register” event when reloaded, along with it’s active/clear state).

We’ll get a 7.1.9 dev version up today, and plan to release it this week.

Regards,

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**Author:** ![RRNut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8e7dd6/32.png) [@RRNut](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/RRNut)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 9:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-enable-disable-aka-alertexecenabled-issue/2469/4 "2011-01-03T21:56:11Z")

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Thank you! I am seeing the alarm messages being generated as well.

Thank you for the update.