# Open alarm status pop up

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/open-alarm-status-pop-up/80147>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [October 6, 2023, 4:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/open-alarm-status-pop-up/80147 "2023-10-06T16:42:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![James\_Summers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e47c2d/32.png) [@James\_Summers](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/James_Summers)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 4:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/open-alarm-status-pop-up/80147/1 "2023-10-06T16:42:36Z")

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Hello Ignition Community

I have created a pop up window with an alarm status object that displays any alarm that is active and has a priority of critical. I want to make the window open automatically anytime a new alarm is shown in the alarm status object. How do I do this? Please include code snippets if the solution is scripting. I'm ashamed to admit it but I'm not much of a coder. Thanks

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**Author:** ![ryan.white](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/ryan.white/32/73193_2.png) [@ryan.white](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ryan.white)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 4:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/open-alarm-status-pop-up/80147/2 "2023-10-06T16:49:51Z")

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Is this for Perspective or Vision? The solution will differ slightly depending on the answer.

For either, create a tag that will totalize or change value when a new critical alarm is added.

The basic approach for vision would likely be to use a client tag change event script. Use the tag mentioned above and use that as the driving tag for the change event script.

For perspective, create a custom session property (or view property if you want to restrict it to a specific view) and bind the value of the property to the above mentioned tag (or if the tag is an expression tag, use the same expression in a binding on the custom property)

For Vision:

> [@Open a pop up based on tag value in vision](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/open-a-pop-up-based-on-tag-value-in-vision/39085):
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> Hello, I want to have a pop up window open in vision when some tags values become 1 as an alarm page. what is the best way to achieve this? thanks

For Perspective:

> [@I want to open a popup when the value of the Perspective tag is changed](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/i-want-to-open-a-popup-when-the-value-of-the-perspective-tag-is-changed/70878):
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> I want to open a popup when the value of the Perspective tag is changed. ( Tag Type : boolean ) Should I first use the value change script in the tag and secondly add the script to the session event as well?

> [@Show a popup in perspective on all clients if a value changes](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/show-a-popup-in-perspective-on-all-clients-if-a-value-changes/61133):
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> In perspective I have a popup page that I want to show up on all screens in the network if a certain tag is set to true. How would I go about doing that and what would that script look like? thank you