# UDT Alarming Question

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/udt-alarming-question/102037>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81\
**Created:** [February 7, 2025, 3:26pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/udt-alarming-question/102037 "2025-02-07T15:26:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Muldoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@Jeff\_Muldoon](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Jeff_Muldoon)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 3:26pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/udt-alarming-question/102037/1 "2025-02-07T15:26:44Z")

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I've got alarms set on a UDT that I need email and text alerts sent out. I've got the pipeline working, but I seem to be having an issue with the actually readout. I've attached a screenshot of the UDT set up but basically I'm looking to take the 2 memory tags I set up, display them both and a set value afterwards. Am I missing something here?

 ![alerting](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/8/9/89081b90134b797808e737dfb8ae11e1609c4c2a.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![amarks](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/amarks/32/45610_2.png) [@amarks](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/amarks)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 4:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/udt-alarming-question/102037/2 "2025-02-07T16:20:09Z")

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Aside from the fact that these should be setpoints in the PLC and the PLC should handle raising the alarm instead of using a level alarm on the Ignition side, I don't see any reason why this wouldn't work.

However there are mores setpoints in the setup above what you've screenshotted that could affect it.

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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Muldoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@Jeff\_Muldoon](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Jeff_Muldoon)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 4:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/udt-alarming-question/102037/3 "2025-02-07T16:42:20Z")

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Thanks for the reply. The system has its own alarms set for alerting different states of the system as well as values etc., but we are getting a new system with Vision as its HMI, so i'm interested to see how that goes. These values are for management/supervisory so that key individuals know what is going on. The other setpoints are just so when I set up my embedded view, I can specify the values what I want to appear. They are all just memory tags with a string that I manually enter when creating each instance.

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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Muldoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@Jeff\_Muldoon](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Jeff_Muldoon)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 1:23pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/udt-alarming-question/102037/4 "2025-02-10T13:23:38Z")

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I ended up needing to put a + between {[.Channel]} and {[.Name]} and then it worked properly.