Determine if any tag in folder is in alarm

[zbinder]

I've experienced difficulties doing what I wanted with isAlarmActive() a while ago, though I can't recall exactly what they were.

If you do decide to go the Python route, this post contains a great example of how to get more mileage out of system.alarm.queryStatus().

Active alarm in area?

I use a UDT for this in Ignition that gets a summary of alarms based on where the UDT is located. UDT json is attached Area Alarms.json (2.7 KB). You’ll need this script as well to summarise the alarms, put under a script library called shared.alarms: def getAlarmSummary(filterPath='*'): if filterPath.find(']') != -1: filterPath = filterPath.split(']')[1] alarms = system.alarm.queryStatus(priority=[1,2,3,4], state=['ActiveAcked','ClearUnacked','ActiveUnacked'], path=['*:…