# It is not possible to bind the deadband mode of an alarm

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/it-is-not-possible-to-bind-the-deadband-mode-of-an-alarm/28691>\
**Category:** Ignition Early Access\
**Created:** [October 1, 2019, 10:04am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/it-is-not-possible-to-bind-the-deadband-mode-of-an-alarm/28691 "2019-10-01T10:04:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![joel.golinucci](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/joel.golinucci/32/9927_2.png) [@joel.golinucci](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/joel.golinucci)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2019, 10:04am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/it-is-not-possible-to-bind-the-deadband-mode-of-an-alarm/28691/1 "2019-10-01T10:04:11Z")

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When configuring an alarm on an UDT tag, it’s possible to bind a lot of things, but not the deadband mode (whereas it’s possible to bind the history deadband mode of the tag).

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/8/84d5605bd3a28f291b76216262805e516fc6a18b.png)

And I might add almost every field appear greyed out (as if they were disabled) but the are perfectly editable.

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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:** [October 2, 2019, 11:11pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/it-is-not-possible-to-bind-the-deadband-mode-of-an-alarm/28691/2 "2019-10-02T23:11:47Z")

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Hi Joel.golinucci,

The deadband mode defines how the value is used. e.g. Absolute and Percent.  
[https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC80/Tag+Alarm+Properties](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC80/Tag+Alarm+Properties). The issue you described is a bug that was fixed in 8.0.5.

Thanks,  
Anthony