FTView 13 A&E Server Acknowledge Last Alarm

[fseipel2]

Is there a simple way (VBA or macro language) to acknowledge ONLY the most recent alarm? I upgraded recently all the way from RSVIEW 32 7.60 to FTVIEW 13 with Alarms & Events server, and can't figure out how to duplicate the 'acknowledge last' that the old software could do. I can do acknowledge all, just not acknowledge last.

 

[fseipel2]

Any thoughts on this? Replying to my own inquiry since I hadn't seen any responses for a week.

 

[Michoviz]

Hello fseipel2

Are you using the ALMD block in a Rockwell PLC?
Maybe it would be easier to do a logic in the PLC.

 

[fseipel2]

Hi Michoviz. Unfortunately this was converted from an old RSVIEW32 project. So I'm not using ALMD currently. There are hundreds of alarms so it would be time-consuming to convert it. I did convert from the Legacy alarms, though, so it's all on the A&E server. It's kind of frustrating that Rockwell did not include in FTVIEW the same command as RSVIEW32 had, to acknowledge ONLY last alarm.

 

[crawler009]

If you sort your alarms according the "In Alarm Time",
you could use this vba code to ack the last alarm.

AlarmEventSummary.SortOrder = "InAlarmTime DESC"
AlarmEventSummary.MoveSelectionFirst
AlarmEventSummary.AckSelected

edit: if you want a button which ack's the selected alarm (then the user would have to select the last alarm), you could do it without vba:
Just a add button with the "Release action":
Invoke Me.AlarmEventSummary.AckSelectedWithComment(0, "my comment")