# Alarm State is "Ack" in SMS notification for acknowledged alarms that clear

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**Created:** [April 3, 2022, 7:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-state-is-ack-in-sms-notification-for-acknowledged-alarms-that-clear/57977 "2022-04-03T19:03:48Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 3, 2022, 7:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-state-is-ack-in-sms-notification-for-acknowledged-alarms-that-clear/57977/1 "2022-04-03T19:03:48Z")

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I’m testing my SMS alarm notification. I was hoping I could include the 3 states in my custom message: Active, Ack and Clear.

I noticed that acknowledged alarms that clear show state “Ack” is the SMS message. Is there some other property (properties) I can look at to determine if an acknowledges alarm clears? I thought I could use the “is Active” and/or “Value” properties but both indicate true is the message when the alarm is acknowledged and when it clears after being acknowledged.

This is my customer message while testing:

```auto
+ "Site: " + {[~]siteInfo/projectCode.value}
+ "\n" + "Priority: " + {priority}
+ "\n" + "Alarm: " + {name}
+ "\n" + "State: " + {State}
+ "\n" + "Tag: " + {itemName}
+ "\n" + {Timestamp}
+ "\nEventState Value = " + {Value}
+ "\nIs Active = " + {activeCondition}

```