Notification - Group Expression

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I have created a tag that an operator can toggle on/off from a scrren.

How can I use a Tag to enable or disable notification.

Thanks in advance.

Ric Buehler

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Are you talking about enabling/disabling notification for the alarm associated with a tag? If so, you can use the AlertExecEnabled property of each tag to turn the alarms on and off. You can access tag properties with a . just like component properties. ie (in an expression):{New Tag.AlertExecEnabled}

Or do you mean the distribution group? Those groups are stored in the database and you can add&& 1=0to the end of the expression when you want to turn it off. Just remove that bit to turn it back on.

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I hae a DB tag named NotifyOperator (boolean).

When it is true I want notifications to go out.

When it is false I want to block notifications.

How do I refer to this tag in the Grooup Expression under the notification.

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If you want a snippet to be added automatically, you can set up a Gateway Event Script and run it off of a Tag Change event. In it, just get the expression from the database, add/remove the text you need and write back to the db. Something like this:value = system.tag.getTagValue("New Tag") expression = system.db.runScalarQuery("SELECT expression FROM alert_distro_groups WHERE alert_distro_groups_ndx = 4") if value == 1: expression = expression[:-7] else: expression = %expression + " && 1=0" system.db.runPrepUpdate("UPDATE alert_distro_groups SET expression = ? WHERE alert_distro_groups_ndx = 4", [expression])