# Grayed Out Alarm Configuration

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/grayed-out-alarm-configuration/6971>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [August 1, 2013, 9:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/grayed-out-alarm-configuration/6971 "2013-08-01T21:28:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@Henry](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Henry)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 9:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/grayed-out-alarm-configuration/6971/1 "2013-08-01T21:28:16Z")

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Hundreds of my alarms have a gray box in the name space and will not allow me to change the priority to a differnet value and I’m wondering how to fix the issue.

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**Author:** ![Robert.McKenzie](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/robert.mckenzie/32/4134_2.png) [@Robert.McKenzie](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Robert.McKenzie)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 11:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/grayed-out-alarm-configuration/6971/2 "2013-08-22T23:56:24Z")

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I’m sorry, I can’t download the attachment anymore. Can you give us a little information about what exactly is happening? Also, are you using the newer 7.6 alarms or 7.5?

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**Author:** ![Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@Henry](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Henry)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 9:33pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/grayed-out-alarm-configuration/6971/3 "2013-08-26T21:33:33Z")

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The version is 7.62 and multiple tags got converted to a priority level of diagnostic.

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**Author:** ![Robert.McKenzie](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/robert.mckenzie/32/4134_2.png) [@Robert.McKenzie](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Robert.McKenzie)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2013, 3:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/grayed-out-alarm-configuration/6971/4 "2013-08-29T15:50:31Z")

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The alarm states are keyed off of the alarm names, and not having a name is invalid. Did this happen to a tag that was created in a 7.5 or earlier version?

You can try deleting the alarm and re-creating it, or if that doesn’t work you can export the tag to XML and modify it to include a name. The format for that alarm is really simple (since default values aren’t recorded) and it should be something like:

` <Tag name="My Alarm" path="" type="OPC">
      <Property name="Value">1</Property>
      <Property name="DataType">2</Property>
      <Alarms>
         <Alarm name="state name">
            <Property name="setpointA">1.0</Property>
         </Alarm>
      </Alarms>
   </Tag>`

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**Author:** ![Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@Henry](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Henry)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2013, 5:57pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/grayed-out-alarm-configuration/6971/5 "2013-08-30T17:57:23Z")

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The tags were created in the past and somewhere after my 7.5 or 7.6 upgrade they got messed up.

Thanks for the help, I was able to fix it using the XML export.