(Legacy) Sort Button

Sort a legacy Alarm List by any numeric property.

Sorting is different from filtering. Sorting does not stop alarms from being displayed in the alarm list. Rather, it changes the order of the items being displayed. Filtering excludes certain entries from being displayed in the alarms list. You can apply both filtering and sorting simultaneously. For example, you may filter to display all alarms that have their Area parameter configured as "East" and sort the results by alarm priority.

To remove sorting, create a second Sort Button with the Field Number set to match the corresponding sort button, and leave the Minimum and Maximum fields blank.

Legacy Alarm List - This button is relevant only in relation to a legacy Alarm List

The properties dialog for the Sort Button dialog.

 

You cannot sort the History alarm list.

Name

Required to associate this button with a legacy Alarm List.

Button Label

Enter the text you want to display. Labels should be clear but short, as the length of the label determines the size of the button.

If the label is to include an ampersand (&), enter two ampersands (&&).

Tool Tips Label

Use this field to compensate for the brevity of the button label by providing a longer description of the button’s function. This text is displayed only when the operator hovers the pointer over the button.

Minimum

Enter the lowest numeric value in the sort range.

The lowest alarm priority is 0 by default.

Maximum

Enter the highest numeric value in the sort range.

The highest alarm priority is "4" by default.

Field Number

Select the name of the alarm database field by which you wish to sort.

Note: this button does a numeric sort - fields with values that are non-numeric are not sorted. Thus, while it is possible to select "Area" it is effective to do so only if areas are numbered rather than named.

Sort Descending

Select if you want to sort the alarm list in descending order (i.e. with the highest priority alarms appearing at the bottom.