# isAlarmActive inside a UDT

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/isalarmactive-inside-a-udt/9005>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [September 4, 2014, 7:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/isalarmactive-inside-a-udt/9005 "2014-09-04T19:20:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![AJBerera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@AJBerera](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/AJBerera)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2014, 7:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/isalarmactive-inside-a-udt/9005/1 "2014-09-04T19:20:02Z")

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I’d like to create an Alarm tag inside my UDT to check for any alarms that are active inside my UDT,  
The Alarms Folder contains bools that all have alarming.  
How should this expression look?

![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/2/f/2f0984456f8dd47c5beb0a68b72c3d6cf62ef2aa.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![adamaustin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f8ce5/32.png) [@adamaustin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/adamaustin)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2014, 7:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/isalarmactive-inside-a-udt/9005/2 "2014-09-04T19:54:24Z")

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Try this:

```auto
isAlarmActive("[.]ALARMS/*")
```

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**Author:** ![AJBerera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@AJBerera](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/AJBerera)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2014, 12:44pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/isalarmactive-inside-a-udt/9005/3 "2014-09-05T12:44:16Z")

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Thank you, Now I’m wondering if there is a method of obtaining the alarmActive condition depending on the priority level of the alarms, any ideas?