# \[IGN-11371\]How to prevent "Clear" notifications when an alarm is transitioned from not enabled to enabled? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** ignition81, perspective\ **Created:** [November 21, 2024, 8:16pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ign-11371-how-to-prevent-clear-notifications-when-an-alarm-is-transitioned-from-not-enabled-to-enabled/98956 "2024-11-21T20:16:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cole\_Townsend](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/cole_townsend/32/53149_2.png) [@Cole\_Townsend](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Cole_Townsend)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 9:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ign-11371-how-to-prevent-clear-notifications-when-an-alarm-is-transitioned-from-not-enabled-to-enabled/98956/21 "2025-04-08T21:31:13Z")
yeah alarm overrides are generally a nightmare since any overridden property in an alarm overrides the entire thing and keeps any changes in the UDT definition from getting rolled out. Really annoying problem by itself ---
**Author:** ![tgarrison](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/tgarrison/32/80965_2.png) [@tgarrison](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/tgarrison)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2025, 12:38pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ign-11371-how-to-prevent-clear-notifications-when-an-alarm-is-transitioned-from-not-enabled-to-enabled/98956/22 "2025-09-18T12:38:30Z")
I can get away with it for the one gateway I’m having the issue with so far, as they don’t have any alarms they want Auto-Ack’d, so I’m simply using the filter extension on the journal to filter out all where ackUser = “tag:Auto-Ack” ---
**Author:** ![Brad\_Beaudin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@Brad\_Beaudin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Brad_Beaudin)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2026, 9:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ign-11371-how-to-prevent-clear-notifications-when-an-alarm-is-transitioned-from-not-enabled-to-enabled/98956/23 "2026-01-08T21:03:14Z")
We utilize devices that can sometimes lose connection and reconnect with alarms in an **Active State** , so it is important for us to use **Notify on Initial Events**. Of course, this comes with a few pain points, and we ran into issues where we were flooded with **Clear** alarms, especially after a Gateway restart. We discovered that our pipelines were set up with a **Dropout Condition** **Acknowledged** set to **False.** As mentioned above, Cleared alarms were automatically Ack’d and thus entered the pipeline notifications. We also had a few alarms where **Ack Mode** was set to either **Unused** or **Auto** , which was the inclination behind our dropout condition of Acknowledged being false. 2 options to help circumvent this issue. 1. Set your dropout condition for **Acknowledged** to **True** , and subsequently set your **Ack Mode** to **Manual**. Then you can choose whether or not to send an **Ack Link**. This will prevent **Clear** alarms from sending on an Initial Event. 2. If the dropout condition in your set up is require to be **False** for **Acknowledged** you can set an expression block to filter out **Initial Events** that are **Cleared.** 1. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/0/3/038e65106e910c1e492965f15fb1c3b6f5dd7326.png) ---
**Author:** ![jrusso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c0e974/32.png) [@jrusso](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jrusso)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 5:57pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ign-11371-how-to-prevent-clear-notifications-when-an-alarm-is-transitioned-from-not-enabled-to-enabled/98956/24 "2026-06-15T17:57:43Z")
Was there ever an official patch or fix for this? Running into the same issue after recently upgrading from 8.0 to 8.3 ---
**Author:** ![cknitter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ec8ea/32.png) [@cknitter](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/cknitter)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2026, 1:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ign-11371-how-to-prevent-clear-notifications-when-an-alarm-is-transitioned-from-not-enabled-to-enabled/98956/25 "2026-07-08T13:56:59Z")
When will this issue be resolved? ---
**Author:** ![cknitter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ec8ea/32.png) [@cknitter](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/cknitter)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2026, 1:57pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ign-11371-how-to-prevent-clear-notifications-when-an-alarm-is-transitioned-from-not-enabled-to-enabled/98956/26 "2026-07-08T13:57:38Z")
When will this issue be resolved? Using 8.3 ---
**Author:** ![jrusso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c0e974/32.png) [@jrusso](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jrusso)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2026, 6:44pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ign-11371-how-to-prevent-clear-notifications-when-an-alarm-is-transitioned-from-not-enabled-to-enabled/98956/27 "2026-09-16T18:44:27Z")
A little late, but I did end up finding this checkbox in the Alarm Journal settings of 8.3.6 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/1/7/1729665cec12d8568469add349ab689914a03b2f.png) [Previous page](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ign-11371-how-to-prevent-clear-notifications-when-an-alarm-is-transitioned-from-not-enabled-to-enabled/98956.md?page=1)