# Reading data from GUI AlarmStatusTable to check Cell Style

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**Category:** General Discussion\
**Tags:** designer, scripting, python\
**Created:** [February 26, 2025, 8:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/reading-data-from-gui-alarmstatustable-to-check-cell-style/102930 "2025-02-26T20:01:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 26, 2025, 8:25pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/reading-data-from-gui-alarmstatustable-to-check-cell-style/102930/2 "2025-02-26T20:25:56Z")

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Consider working from this snippet (might need some slight adjustment) to retrieve the underlying model more directly:

> [@Alarm Journal Export](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-journal-export/102512/4):
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> Untested, but should work. from org.apache.commons.lang3.reflect import FieldUtils alarmJournal = event.source.parent.getComponent('Alarm Journal') model = FieldUtils.readField(alarmJournal, "model", True) data = FieldUtils.readField(model, "data", True) ds = data.getDataset()

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