# Perspective Alarm Status Table & Event Value column scaling/formatting

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**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81, perspective\
**Created:** [May 17, 2023, 3:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-alarm-status-table-event-value-column-scaling-formatting/73845 "2023-05-17T15:31:44Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 4, 2023, 4:16am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-alarm-status-table-event-value-column-scaling-formatting/73845/2 "2023-06-04T04:16:44Z")

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I had an idea on this. I'm not sure how practical it is for your usage case, but I was able to achieve the desired effect by moving the alarm to a derived tag or an expression tag.

**Example:**  
Actual event value = 82.687545776

Tags:  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/4/0/40f5711425ccf98593b45f3ac1f9f1e5d7b01747.png)  
TestTag01 has the raw value and TestTag02 has the expression value

Expression:

```auto
round({[.]TestTag01.value}, 2)

```

**Result:**  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/c/0/c078ab739a943f3ad199051578db63490c3e815e.png)  
Both alarms have the same trigger value, but TestTag02 displays with only two decimal places.

Here is how that looks in a derived tag:  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/6/3/63471fbc3370d8d8c5c3cacca9bb1e12215a3d32.png)

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