# system.tag.addTag - alarmConfig

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-tag-addtag-alarmconfig/10441>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [September 8, 2015, 5:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-tag-addtag-alarmconfig/10441 "2015-09-08T17:45:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![bryce.troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecb155/32.png) [@bryce.troy](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bryce.troy)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 5:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-tag-addtag-alarmconfig/10441/1 "2015-09-08T17:45:46Z")

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Following the example from the manual, I am able to successfully create tags with alarms on the fly. Only problem left is trying to set the “mode” attribute - I would like the alarm trigger to be != 0. Here is what I have:

[code] system.tag.addTag(parentPath = “QA/Messages”, name = tagName,  
tagType = “MEMORY”, dataType = “Boolean”, value = 1,  
alarmConfig = {“QArequest”: [[“name”, “Value”, “QArequest”],

# [“mode”, “Value”, “Not Equal”],

```
		["NotificationList", "Value", notify], 
		["activePipeline", "Value", pipeline], 
		["ackMode", "Value", "Unused"], 
		["RequestType", "Value", type], 
		["RequestID", "Value", id], 
		["CustomEmailSubject", "Value", "QA Notification"], 
		["CustomEmailMessage", "Value", message]]})

```

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This works great except when I uncomment the 4th line I get:

QArequest exception occurred: (\<type ‘com.inductiveautomation.ignition.client.gateway\_interface.GatewayException’\>, com.inductiveautomation.ignition.client.gateway\_interface.GatewayException: Alarm property ‘mode’ is invalid or value is an incorrect data type, \<traceback object at 0x3\>)

When I manually change the alarm on the tag to trigger != 0, then query the alarm properties, it returns:

QArequest  
mode Value Not Equal  
setpointA Value 0.0  
NotificationList Value BryceEmail  
RequestType Value 2  
CustomEmailMessage Value QA Tasting Approval requested by STB at 11:13:53 to Begin Packaging ST4381-82 1  
activePipeline Value Email Alarms  
RequestID Value 28  
name Value QArequest  
CustomEmailSubject Value QA Notification  
ackMode Value Unused

So where am I going wrong getting an invalid “mode”??

Bryce Troy  
Control Systems Engineer  
Left Hand Brewing Company

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**Author:** ![JGJohnson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jgjohnson/32/29582_2.png) [@JGJohnson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/JGJohnson)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 5:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-tag-addtag-alarmconfig/10441/2 "2015-09-08T17:50:58Z")

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I’m guessing it is expecting an integer value. Try changing it to [“mode”, “Value”, “0”] or [“mode”, “Value”, 0].

If that works it’s just a matter of figuring out the mode enumerations.

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**Author:** ![bryce.troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecb155/32.png) [@bryce.troy](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bryce.troy)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 7:05pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-tag-addtag-alarmconfig/10441/3 "2015-09-08T19:05:01Z")

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You called it. An integer value of 1 comes out as “Not Equal”. So this works:

```
["mode", "Value", 1], [i]# Not Equal[/i]

```

Thanks - Bryce

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**Author:** ![lkruper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e4f/32.png) [@lkruper](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/lkruper)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2020, 8:55pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-tag-addtag-alarmconfig/10441/4 "2020-03-25T20:55:06Z")

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I realize I am replying to an old post, but I am not able to reproduce all that I see there.

In particular the NotificationList. I have my emails working with the roster set up in my pipeline. But when I populate NotificationList it has no effect. I was hoping it would override the recipients in the pipeline.