Alarm row color based on alarm type (not state or priority) - Perspective

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I have a UDT that has 17 alarms and many instances of this UDT. I want to change the row color in the alarm table based on which alarm is set, not by state or priority. For example, if my E-Stop alarm is active, I want to color the row red. I can't find a way to do this with expressions or bindings

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So your plan is to have a table with 17 different colours? That does not seem compliant with general ASM recommendations

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The 17 is the different alarm types, but there's probably a handful of different colors across all of the alarms, some colors are shared. This is not an uncommon thing for some customer sites, I've seen it for years from different integrators. They want the alarm color to match the condition in the scada view. When there are hundreds of elements or sections of a system that can have a different color based on many different statuses, it's easier for them to associate the alarm in the banner when it matches the color of the status in the view.

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some colors are shared

So how are operators supposed to identify alarm type based on colour then?

This is not an uncommon thing for some customer sites

That doesn't make it good practice.

When there are hundreds of elements or sections of a system that can have a different color

If your system has hundreds of concurrently active alarms that are all visible on the same display, that's a problem. You should be considering alarm rationalisation first.