# isAlarmActiveFiltered Error

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/isalarmactivefiltered-error/27246>\
**Category:** Ignition Early Access\
**Created:** [August 7, 2019, 8:16pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/isalarmactivefiltered-error/27246 "2019-08-07T20:16:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![apgilber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@apgilber](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/apgilber)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 8:16pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/isalarmactivefiltered-error/27246/1 "2019-08-07T20:16:02Z")

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isAlarmActiveFiltered is throwing this error but I’m not sure where the problem is stemming from. The documentation says the tag path can accept a wild card

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**Author:** ![anjoroge](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/anjoroge/32/6698_2.png) [@anjoroge](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/anjoroge)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2019, 10:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/isalarmactivefiltered-error/27246/2 "2019-08-13T22:46:23Z")

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Hi apgilber,

Could you please send some additional information on what you are trying to achieve. As well as a few more details on the steps you followed to produce the issue.?

Thanks,  
Anthony

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**Author:** ![apgilber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@apgilber](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/apgilber)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2019, 5:09pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/isalarmactivefiltered-error/27246/3 "2019-08-14T17:09:55Z")

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We found that if you put [default]\* in for the tagpath it fixes the issue. I was attempting to use the example from the documentation and didn’t realize the [default] was a requirement.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/b/b878d670903ba518422bb24327b67a7f55b04933.png)

The other thing that was odd was when I used a display path that had no active alarms the expression evaluation showed that it was false but also showed error so I assumed it was not working correctly. Should that just return false rather than an error of “Bad\_NotFound”

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**Author:** ![osolorzano](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/osolorzano/32/6432_2.png) [@osolorzano](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/osolorzano)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2019, 5:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/isalarmactivefiltered-error/27246/4 "2019-08-14T17:22:06Z")

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You should only receive the Bad\_NotFound error if the alarm that the expression is filtering on does not exist. Going from your config, is there a tag with an alarm in the default provider that has its display path property set to exactly `EM14`?

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**Author:** ![apgilber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@apgilber](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/apgilber)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2019, 5:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/isalarmactivefiltered-error/27246/5 "2019-08-14T17:36:37Z")

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Yes there are 400 tags with 7 alarms on each tag from a PLC array. I’m currently downloading to the PLC so the tags are showing up as errored but normally they are not.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c694a0f2235f7d52af027b5a324e69b245912168.png)  
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**Author:** ![osolorzano](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/osolorzano/32/6432_2.png) [@osolorzano](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/osolorzano)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2019, 6:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/isalarmactivefiltered-error/27246/6 "2019-08-14T18:29:16Z")

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We aren’t able to replicate this on our end. At this point I can only point you to support for further assistance. [https://support.inductiveautomation.com/](https://support.inductiveautomation.com/) When contacting them reference this post to give some further context.