Visio – Filter child elements in a view by timeout state

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I have a Visio visual on a view that generates shapes for all elements within the view. I am using ChildrenFilter to filter elements by protocol, which works fine.

I am trying to also filter out elements that are in timeout, so only connected elements are displayed. I have tried the AlarmSeverity condition with ChildrenFilter, but it does not support Timeout, as per the documentation.

I thought about filtering by parameter 64501 'Communication state', but it appears ChildrenFilter doesn't support parameter values either.

Using Hide condition on child shapes is not an option either as it will leave an empty space reserved for the element, which is not desirable.

Is there any other way to filter out elements that are in timeout?

Wieslaw Zdunek [DevOps Enabler] Posted new comment
Miguel Obregon [SLC] [DevOps Catalyst] commented

Hi Wieslaw,
Can you try including all severities in the 'AlarmSeverity' option. For example:
AlarmSeverity:Critical,Major,Minor,Minor,Normal
Wieslaw Zdunek [DevOps Enabler] commented

Hi Miguel,
I have tried your suggestion, but the elements in timeout still show up.

I suspect this is because the alarm state of the element does not change when elements are in timeout?

My particular element is in timeout, but the alarm state of the element is 'Normal' – thus, using AlarmSeverity:Normal will show this element despite it being in timeout. This is the same for timeout elements with other alarm state values, like Critical.