# isAlarmActiveFiltered() for ClearUnack only possible?

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**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [October 2, 2018, 10:23am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/isalarmactivefiltered-for-clearunack-only-possible/19930 "2018-10-02T10:23:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 2, 2018, 10:23am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/isalarmactivefiltered-for-clearunack-only-possible/19930/1 "2018-10-02T10:23:46Z")

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Hello all,

I'm trying to use the isAlarmActiveFiltered() and I was wondering if there is a way to "exclude" active alarms from this expression. (I know that it is named isAlarm **Active** Filtered).  
The use case is in templates, I would like to avoid using expressions like tag({TEMPLATE.UDT::Meta.TagPath} + "/MyAlarm.AlarmClearUnackCount").

From what I tried, the isAlarmActiveFiltered() can not be used to determine if there is an ClearUnacked Alarm on a tag or not. Am I right ?

Tried:

> isAlarmActiveFiltered({TEMPLATE.UDT::Meta.TagPath} + "/Test Alarm Active\*",  
> "_",  
> "_",  
> 1,  
> 4,  
> 1, //Cleared Allowed  
> 0, //Acked Not Allowed  
> 0)

Is True if an alarm is Active and Unacked (Desired : False)

(Similar question can be asked for Active and Acked alarms and excluding Unacked alarms)