# Text Change Colors on Alarm Group Status Change

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/text-change-colors-on-alarm-group-status-change/114095>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [February 20, 2026, 6:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/text-change-colors-on-alarm-group-status-change/114095 "2026-02-20T18:40:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gwen\_Lipinski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c77e96/32.png) [@Gwen\_Lipinski](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Gwen_Lipinski)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2026, 6:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/text-change-colors-on-alarm-group-status-change/114095/1 "2026-02-20T18:40:05Z")

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Hello, I would like to have text change from white to red when an alarm in a specific group is active. I was able to bind the textStyle color to a specific alarm but I want it to be any alarm for that specific site. For example, I have multiple lift stations. I want Lift Station 1 to change text color only when alarms pertaining to Lift Station 1 are active. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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**Author:** ![Nol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Nol](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Nol)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2026, 6:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/text-change-colors-on-alarm-group-status-change/114095/2 "2026-02-20T18:46:42Z")

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Assuming you're running 8.3: It sort of depends how your tags are laid out but if all of Lift Station 1 is in a folder then you could do an indirect tag binding to that folder's alarm metrics tags and pick the one you want. Likely .HasActive or something.

If 8.1 then you need to create an expression tag that does the filtering for you and then bind to that.

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**Author:** ![Gwen\_Lipinski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c77e96/32.png) [@Gwen\_Lipinski](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Gwen_Lipinski)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2026, 6:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/text-change-colors-on-alarm-group-status-change/114095/3 "2026-02-20T18:54:45Z")

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I was able to move my alarms into a fold and bind to the .HasActive like you said! Thank you.