# Setting an alarm event property

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/setting-an-alarm-event-property/27670>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition79, scripting\
**Created:** [August 22, 2019, 2:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/setting-an-alarm-event-property/27670 "2019-08-22T14:59:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![bfuson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/bfuson/32/4597_2.png) [@bfuson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bfuson)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 2:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/setting-an-alarm-event-property/27670/1 "2019-08-22T14:59:15Z")

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I have an Ignition SCADA project with support for audio alarm annunciation. IE while there are unacked alarms, a sound file plays on loop.

I have the additional requirement to support ‘silencing’ all active alarms. To implement this, I would like to grab all the current alarm events and set an AssociatedData property, `silenced`, to True. I gather that I can change a tags alarm configuration through `system.tag.editAlarmConfig()` but when I execute the edit it seems the live alarm event AssociatedData does not change to reflect this.

Is there a better way to go about this?

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**Author:** ![bfuson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/bfuson/32/4597_2.png) [@bfuson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bfuson)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 11:44pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/setting-an-alarm-event-property/27670/2 "2019-08-22T23:44:20Z")

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Still can’t get this to work.

I tried binding the alarm ‘silence’ associated data property to a separate memory tag, but this doesn’t alter the property on the active alarm event since those values were set when the alarm went active.