# Read alarm acknote in acknowledgement script

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/read-alarm-acknote-in-acknowledgement-script/114098>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [February 20, 2026, 7:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/read-alarm-acknote-in-acknowledgement-script/114098 "2026-02-20T19:29:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![ken.maze](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/ken.maze/32/85876_2.png) [@ken.maze](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ken.maze)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2026, 7:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/read-alarm-acknote-in-acknowledgement-script/114098/1 "2026-02-20T19:29:34Z")

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I’m probably overlooking something, but in the Alarm acknowledgement script, for the life of me I can’t figure out how to just get the acknowledge note so I can put it in a separate database for some other recordkeeping we’re doing. I have gotten just about everything else, but ackNotes always comes up empty.

Ive done code like

```python
    for entry in alarmEvent.getProperties():
        logger.info("{} = {}".format(entry, alarmEvent.get(entry)))

```

but acknotes isn’t one of the properties.

I see ackNotes is in the alarmEvent.ackData, but I can’t figure out how to get them out of there - not with ackData.ackNotes or ackData[“ackNotes”].

Sorry in advance if I missed something totally obvious.

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**Author:** ![ken.maze](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/ken.maze/32/85876_2.png) [@ken.maze](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ken.maze)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2026, 10:08pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/read-alarm-acknote-in-acknowledgement-script/114098/2 "2026-03-06T22:08:55Z")

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I swear I tried this for a full afternoon, and today I went to try a few more permutations, then it started working.

```python
alarmEvent.get("ackNotes"))

```