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Overview of Functions
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AlarmIndication
The alarm conditions are displayed as alarm icons in the status display section and on 
the operation screen such as the trend, digital, bar graph, overview displays. Detailed 
information about the alarms is displayed in the alarm summary.
• AlarmLevelsandColors(Releasenumber3orlater)
   You can set separate levels and colors for the four alarms on a single channel. When 
multiple alarms occur, the DX gives higher priority to the display of alarms with higher 
levels. It is easy to understand what processes are taking place when alarms occur if 
you associate an alarm’s color with its level. Level and color settings are the same for 
each channel.
• Intheoverviewdisplay,thechanneldisplayareaappearsinthecolorofthealarm
that has occurred.
     
• Thefollowingitemsalsoappearin the color of the alarm that has occurred.
 • Alarmmarksinthetrend,digital,andbargraphdisplays
 • Thealarmpointmarksonscales(whentheyaresetto“Alarm”)
 • Thealarmoccurrencemarkinthe alarm summary
   When multiple alarms occur on the same channel, the various displays respond as 
described below:
• Intheoverviewdisplay,the channel display area is displayed using the color of the 
alarm with the highest priority level.
• Inthetrendanddigitaldisplays,thealarmtypeisdisplayedusingthesymbolfor
the alarm with the highest priority level.
• Intheannunciatordisplay,thedisplaywindowisdisplayedusingthecolorofthe
alarm with the highest priority level.
  For the setting procedure, see section 3.7.
• Alarm-ActivatedTextDisplay(Releasenumber3orlater)
  Using the Event Action function, you can display a previously set string of text (comment 
text block) when an alarm occurs.
  For the procedure to set comment text blocks and event action, see sections 5.19 and 
7.1, respectively.
• Hold/Non-holdofIndications
The alarm indication can be set to operate in the following fashion when the condition 
is no longer met.
• Clearthealarmindication(non-hold).
• HoldthealarmindicationuntilthealarmACKoperationisexecuted(hold).
The default setting is non-hold.
  For the setting procedure, see section 3.5.
1.2Alarms