# Alarm buttons

Use these alarm buttons to interact with the alarm list, alarm banner, or alarm status list, and to clear and sort the alarm history:

Alarm buttons | Descriptions
Acknowledge Alarm | This button acknowledges and silences the selected alarm in an alarm list or alarm banner.
Acknowledge All Alarms | This button acknowledges and silences all unacknowledged alarms or the unacknowledged alarms for a specific alarm trigger in the alarm history.
Alarm Status Mode | This button changes the mode of an alarm status list to its next setting. The order of the settings is: All alarms Active alarms Past alarms The current setting is dependent on how the list is set up on the Alarm tab of the list's Properties dialog box.
Clear Alarm Banner | This button removes the current alarm from the banner without removing it from the alarm history and alarm lists.
Clear Alarm History | This button removes all alarms or the alarms for a specific alarm trigger from the alarm history and alarm lists, and resets the alarm status. If you choose to reset alarms, pressing this button resets the number of times an alarm has been triggered to 0, and the accumulated time in alarm to 0, for all alarms that are being cleared. If the alarm is still active, the number of times in alarm changes to 1 after the alarm is reset to 0.
Print Alarm History | This button prints a report of the alarm messages in the alarm log file. You can include all alarms, or the alarms for a specific alarm trigger. The report can include the time when alarms occurred and were acknowledged.
Print Alarm Status | This button prints a report of the status of all alarms or the alarms for a specific alarm trigger. The report can include how many times each alarm was triggered and the accumulated time in alarm.
Reset Alarm Status | This button resets the accumulated time and the number of times the alarm has been triggered to zero for all alarms in the application. If the alarm is still active, the number changes to 1.
Silence Alarms | This button silences all current alarms. If the hold time for any alarm is still in effect, the alarm cannot be silenced.
Sort Alarms | This button sorts the alarms in the alarm history and alarm lists by time or by trigger. When alarms are sorted by trigger, they are first sorted so that all alarms assigned to one trigger are together in the order that the triggers appear in the Alarm Setup editor. Within these groups, triggers are sorted by trigger value.

## See also

Create an Alarm button

Set up general properties for an Alarm button

Set up print options for a Print Alarm History button

Set up a caption and image for a button

How the Alarm buttons work at run time