# Question about the alert summary table **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [April 22, 2010, 12:11pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/question-about-the-alert-summary-table/1777 "2010-04-22T12:11:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![diat150](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a587f6/32.png) [@diat150](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/diat150)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 12:11pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/question-about-the-alert-summary-table/1777/1 "2010-04-22T12:11:06Z")
is there any way to use the documentation of the tag instead of the path as one of the columns in the alert summary? I dont see this option underneath the table properties. seems like this would be really helpful if it isnt available. ---
**Author:** ![Carl.Gould](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/carl.gould/32/7262_2.png) [@Carl.Gould](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Carl.Gould)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 3:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/question-about-the-alert-summary-table/1777/2 "2010-04-22T15:18:42Z")
Have you found the “Notes area location” property? It defaults to “Hidden”, but if you change it then there will be a multi-line area that displays the notes for the selected alarm. ---
**Author:** ![diat150](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a587f6/32.png) [@diat150](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/diat150)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/question-about-the-alert-summary-table/1777/3 "2010-04-22T17:56:42Z")
no, I hadnt seen that, but I am not sure how well that would work. The problem is that we dont get too fancy on the tag names, since we use a similar syntax on every location. Thats why we would go into a little more detail in the notes section. Our tagname might be “loc1981ftp1” and in the notes section we would have loc 1981 flow tubing pressure all other HMI software’s that I have dealt with allow you to use alarm comments. Is this a feature that could be added? It just seems kind of cumbersome to have to click on a alarm and then find the box that actually has the alarm information. ---
**Author:** ![Travis.Cox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Travis.Cox](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Travis.Cox)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 6:00pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/question-about-the-alert-summary-table/1777/4 "2010-04-22T18:00:10Z")
That is what the display path is used for when configuring an alert. Take a look at it when editing the tags alarm. ---
**Author:** ![Carl.Gould](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/carl.gould/32/7262_2.png) [@Carl.Gould](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Carl.Gould)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 6:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/question-about-the-alert-summary-table/1777/5 "2010-04-22T18:01:12Z")
This could be added, I just want to make sure it is necessary. Why don’t you simply put your human-friendly name in the “display path” - that is precisely what it was designed for. The “notes” area is meant to have multi-line information which doesn’t fit in a table row all that well. ---
**Author:** ![diat150](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a587f6/32.png) [@diat150](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/diat150)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 8:11pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/question-about-the-alert-summary-table/1777/6 "2010-04-22T20:11:01Z")
thanks. that worked perfectly.