# Alarms triggering on null data

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarms-triggering-on-null-data/15476>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [September 26, 2017, 8:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarms-triggering-on-null-data/15476 "2017-09-26T20:04:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![doug.breshears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@doug.breshears](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/doug.breshears)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 8:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarms-triggering-on-null-data/15476/1 "2017-09-26T20:04:27Z")

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I have several alarms that are _meant_ to trigger with a value of 1 and are somehow also triggering when the value goes to null.  
Is there a way to stop this behavior and force the alarms only to trigger on set conditions?

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**Author:** ![jonathan.taylor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jonathan.taylor/32/4048_2.png) [@jonathan.taylor](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jonathan.taylor)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2017, 5:23pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarms-triggering-on-null-data/15476/2 "2017-09-27T17:23:46Z")

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What have you put as your setpoint?

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**Author:** ![doug.breshears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@doug.breshears](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/doug.breshears)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 8:05pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarms-triggering-on-null-data/15476/3 "2017-09-29T20:05:20Z")

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I have just a single digit ‘1’ (no quotes)