# Alarm Indication based off multiple tags inside UDT **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [March 23, 2015, 7:02pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-indication-based-off-multiple-tags-inside-udt/9828 "2015-03-23T19:02:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sthayer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/db5fbb/32.png) [@sthayer](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/sthayer)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 7:02pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-indication-based-off-multiple-tags-inside-udt/9828/1 "2015-03-23T19:02:57Z")
Hello, I have a UDT with several OPC tags within, and would like to have an indicator show different colors (based off the highest priority) if any of these tags have an active alarm. The path of the UDT I'm looking for is also indircted (an integer 1-20). I have been trying to use alarms = system.alarm.queryStatus(source = ["Process "+str(number)+"/PLC/UDTName/\*"]) but I'm not quite sure how search through the results. The manual states: > [@](#): > > AlarmEvent objects can be examined with getAckData, getActiveData, getClearedData, getCount, getDisplayPath, getDisplayPathOrSource, getId, getLastEventState, getName, getNotes, getOrDefault, getOrElse, getPriority, getProperties, getRawValueMap, getSource, getState, getValues, isAcked, isCleared, isExtended, isInherited, and isShelved but how exactly do I "examine" the results list? I have tried iterating through alarms but I keep getting errors with incorrect syntax. Any ideas? Or is there a better way of achieving this? Thanks for the help. ---
**Author:** ![wdreynolds1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/wdreynolds1/32/3327_2.png) [@wdreynolds1](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/wdreynolds1)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2015, 9:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-indication-based-off-multiple-tags-inside-udt/9828/2 "2015-03-25T21:01:09Z")
The code I have below will return a list of basic alarm events which looks like a list of dictionaries when printed. Before you can do anything with the returned object you’ll have to iterate through the list of dictionaries to get down to the individual alarm objects. I would need to see your full code to give you a complete answer, so I’ll give you an example and see if you can’t work through it. I created a UDT with three OPC tags that are float8. Each of those tags have one alarm configured called “Alarm”. status = system.alarm.queryStatus(source= [’\*Alarm’]) ‘’‘returns as status all alarm objects that end in ‘Alarm’ as a list of dictionaries–each dictionary represents one alarm.’’’ for dict in status: print dict ‘’‘this will iterate through each dictionary in your list and print it you can then you can see what the object looks like’’’ for dict in status: print dict.getDisplayPathorSource() ‘’‘this will iterate through the dictionaries and return the source or path for each object’’’ Returns: UDTs/alarmTest/sine1/Alarm UDTs/alarmTest/sine0/Alarm UDTs/alarmTest/sine1/Alarm UDTs/alarmTest/sine0/Alarm UDTs/alarmTest/sine0/Alarm UDTs/alarmTest/sine2/Alarm UDTs/alarmTest/sine0/Alarm UDTs/alarmTest/sine1/Alarm UDTs/alarmTest/sine1/Alarm UDTs/alarmTest/sine1/Alarm UDTs/alarmTest/sine0/Alarm for dict in status: print dict.priority ‘’‘will print the priority level of each alarm’’’ Returns: Critical Critical Critical Critical Critical Critical Critical Critical Critical Critical Critical for dict in status: print dict.getState() ‘’‘will print the state of each alarm returned’’’ Returns: Cleared, Unacknowledged Cleared, Unacknowledged Active, Unacknowledged Active, Unacknowledged Cleared, Unacknowledged Cleared, Unacknowledged Cleared, Unacknowledged Cleared, Unacknowledged Cleared, Unacknowledged Cleared, Unacknowledged Cleared, Unacknowledged The full list of methods and extension functions available for the basic alarm event object are below. You can just append them to your object variable and play around. ackData acked acknowledge active activeData addPropertyChangeListener class clear cleared clearedData contains count displayPath displayPathOrSource equals forEach get getAckData getActiveData getClass getClearedData getCount getDisplayPath getDisplayPathOrSource getId getLastEventState getName getNotes getOrDefault getOrElse getPriority getProperties getRawValueMap getSource getState getValues hashCode id isAcked isCleared isExtended isInherited isShelved iterator lastEventState merge name notes notify notifyAll of priority properties propertyChange propertyChangeListener rawValueMap remove removePropertyChangeListener set setDirect setRawValueMap shelved source spliterator state toString values wait Good luck! ---
**Author:** ![Pat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8491ac/32.png) [@Pat](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Pat)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2015, 9:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-indication-based-off-multiple-tags-inside-udt/9828/3 "2015-03-25T21:39:04Z")
I create two expression tags in my UDTs, HighestPriority and HighestUnackPriority, and then use the following expressions to capture the alarm status of all the tags that have alarms in the UDT. HighestPriority - `max({Tag1.AlarmHighestAckPriority}, {Tag1.AlarmHighestUnackPriority}, {Tag2.AlarmHighestAckPriority}, {Tag2.AlarmHighestUnackPriority})` HighestUnackPriority- `max({Tag1.AlarmHighestUnackPriority}, {Tag2.AlarmHighestUnackPriority})` ---
**Author:** ![sthayer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/db5fbb/32.png) [@sthayer](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/sthayer)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 3:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-indication-based-off-multiple-tags-inside-udt/9828/4 "2015-03-31T15:39:44Z")
Apologies for the late response, thanks for the replies. These definitely helped guide me in the right direction. Appreciate the help!