# Need ideas for equipment alarm visualization and triggers

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**Created:** [March 20, 2020, 3:09pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/need-ideas-for-equipment-alarm-visualization-and-triggers/33276 "2020-03-20T15:09:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![james\_fitzgerald](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dc4da7/32.png) [@james\_fitzgerald](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/james_fitzgerald)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 3:09pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/need-ideas-for-equipment-alarm-visualization-and-triggers/33276/1 "2020-03-20T15:09:37Z")

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I did about 75% of the “Inductive University” and I created a few projects, but that was 6 months ago so I am a bit rusty. I need ideas for equipment alarm visualization and triggers.

I have the integer triggers married to the text in an Excel sheet (the integer gets outputted to Proficy downtime collection, which is where I exported the list from)… can I use that Excel sheet to trigger my alarm text? If not I can always get the tags once I go online on the floor but then I have to type in all the alarm text again or copy paste each one…

Also, any ideas or screenshots of good alarm visualizations would be helpful.

Thanks!  
Jim