# Set up alarms for an alarm banner

Use the Alarm tab of the Alarm Banner dialog box to specify what alarms will be shown and how they will be shown.

## To specify what alarms will be shown and how they will be shown

1. In the Graphics Display editor, double-click the alarm banner to open its Properties dialog box.
2. On the Alarm tab, select the alarm settings, that is, how the alarms will be queued what alarms will be shown, and what information will be shown for each alarm.
3. Specify what trigger labels will be filtered, if any.

   Tip: | If a message defined on the Messages tab of the Alarm Setup editor uses an embedded variable to show the value of an alarm, and if that alarm is in alarm when the application starts up, the alarm banner will show question marks in place of the embedded variable. This is because the alarm system cannot determine when the alarm was triggered, and therefore cannot determine what the value of the variable was at that time. After the value has been reset to 0, the embedded variable value will show accurately the next time the alarm is triggered.

## See also

The Alarm Setup editor

Create an alarm banner

Set up general properties for an alarm banner

Options on the Alarm tab of the Alarm Banner Properties dialog box