# [ALARM] display

When you create a project, the application creates a default graphic display called [ALARM] that contains an alarm banner object.

The default [ALARM] display contains the following buttons:

- Ack Alarm
- Silence Alarms
- Clear Alarm Banner
- Close

The application monitors the trigger connections that you set up for alarms to determine when to open the alarm display.

Tip: | If you use the default alarm display, it opens automatically whenever a trigger connection value matches a trigger value. To use your own display, on the Advanced tab of the Alarm Setup editor, in the Current alarms field, replace the default [ALARM] display with your own display. If you set up your own graphic display, use an On Top display, otherwise an error will be generated when the runtime application is created. You can also select the Cannot Be Replaced option on the General tab of the Display Settings dialog box so when a message occurs, your display will open on top of the current display, and will remain open until the operator closes it. Filtering alarms on the display object that opens automatically when alarms occur is not recommended. It is assumed that the user will want this display to register all alarms. If you do filter alarms on a display, be sure to clear the Display check box on the Messages tab of the Alarm Setup editor for all the alarms that have been filtered out. Otherwise the display will open automatically when the alarm occurs, but the alarm object (banner or list) will be blank because the alarm that was triggered has been filtered out for that object.

## See also

About alarms

Alarm buttons

[HISTORY] and [ALARM MULTI-LINE] displays

Trigger Label Selector

Create an alarm trigger