# Areawise Alarm counters and "New Alarm" Popup - Urgent

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/areawise-alarm-counters-and-new-alarm-popup-urgent/10351>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [August 16, 2015, 5:24am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/areawise-alarm-counters-and-new-alarm-popup-urgent/10351 "2015-08-16T05:24:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![R.Alamsha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@R.Alamsha](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/R.Alamsha)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2015, 5:24am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/areawise-alarm-counters-and-new-alarm-popup-urgent/10351/1 "2015-08-16T05:24:17Z")

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I am using Ignition Version 7.7.5.

1. I would like to have “areawise Alarm counters” filtered by “Display path” or “Notes”.

## Typically i would like to use the “Alarm Count Label” template to display areawise alarm counts. Unfortunately, the “Template parameters” doesn’t have any filter by “Display path” or “Notes”.

1. I would like to trigger a “Current alarms Popup” window upon any “New Alarm”. I am using the “Alarm Status Table” on a popup window.

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My client is waiting for the presentation. This is bit urgent. Any help would be highly appreciated. Thanks.

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**Author:** ![R.Alamsha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@R.Alamsha](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/R.Alamsha)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 4:54am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/areawise-alarm-counters-and-new-alarm-popup-urgent/10351/2 "2015-08-19T04:54:34Z")

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I am still waiting for some help on this. I am really stuck on this issue. Not sure how to move on without this functionality. Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Duffanator](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/duffanator/32/3560_2.png) [@Duffanator](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Duffanator)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 1:58pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/areawise-alarm-counters-and-new-alarm-popup-urgent/10351/3 "2015-08-19T13:58:25Z")

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For popping up a window when a new alarm comes in, you could add a new internal property to the template (oldCount perhaps) and put the following, UNTESTED, code in the property change event of the template:

`if event.propertyName == "count":
	if event.source.count > event.source.oldCount:
		if "Alarms/Alarm Status" not in system.gui.getOpenedWindowNames(): 
			system.nav.openWindow("Alarms/Alarm Status")
			event.source.oldCount = event.source.count
	else:
		event.source.oldCount = event.source.count`

I think this should work… but I have not tested it. I’m not sure what your alarm window name is, but replace the “Alarms/Alarm Status” path with whatever your alarm pop up page path is.

As far as the filtering goes, you could easily add a new parameter to the template for Display path or notes and add that into the property binding on the “Count” template property to actually filter. I think you would pass in a \* to the display path to return all alarms.