Modify Alarm Help

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Editing Alarm Help
Resetting Alarm Help
Downloading Alarm Help
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From the Modify Alarm Help dialog you can edit the help, and if you have sufficient privilege, reset or download the modified help.

Editing Alarm Help

DeltaV alarm help is highly configurable. Refer to your plant’s standard operating procedures for how alarm help is used at your location. By default this dialog contains the following fields:

Field	Data Type
Text Field 1 (default label: Recommended action)	Free text field
Time to respond	Dropdown list
Consequence of inaction	Dropdown list
Text Field 2 (default label: Probable cause)	Free text field
Text Field 3 (default label: Design Information)	Free text field

One or more of the text fields may have been removed or relabeled.

To modify the help:

Select a Time to respond from the dropdown list. Refer to your plant's standard operating procedures for information on the items in the list.
Select a Consequence of inaction from the dropdown list. Refer to your plant's standard operating procedures for information on the items in the list.
In each text field enter as many as 500 characters relevant to the corresponding label. The text fields are Unicode compliant. The fields wrap lines automatically. To insert a line break, press the Enter key. To insert a tab character, press Ctrl-Tab. Cut, copy, and paste use Windows standard Ctrl-X, Ctrl-C, and Ctrl-V characters respectively.

The changes you make to the help are not visible to users until the changes are downloaded to the DeltaV system.

The dialog also contains the following buttons:

Reset — Clears the fields and settings you have the privilege to change. If you have privileges for all fields, Alarm Help is disabled for the alarm. All changes are saved to the configuration database.
Save — Write the changes to the configuration database and keep the dialog open.
Download — Download the changes. This button is available only if changes to the dialog have been saved.
Cancel/Close — This button removes the dialog. The button label changes depending on the state of the dialog. The button label is Cancel when there are changes in the dialog that have not been saved. The button label is Close when there are no unsaved changes.

The changes you make to the help are not visible to users until the changes are downloaded to the DeltaV system.

Resetting Alarm Help

If you have sufficient privilege you can click the Reset button to clear the text fields and return the Time to Respond and Consequence of Inaction fields to their default values. If you have privileges for all the Alarm Help fields, the reset button also clears the Enable alarm help check box on the alarm properties dialog. Any changes are saved to the configuration database.

Downloading Alarm Help

After you modify the help a blue triangle appears on the Download button. If you have sufficient privilege you can download the modified help to the DeltaV system.