Is there some way to make a Child Element's alarm color turn purple in a service when it is masked?
Right now this is the normal behavior when an Element is included with "All Parameters", however when this is deselected (Even if [Element alarm state] is checked) the element will display as Green/Grey even if it is masked. Is there another parameter that determines this? Or a Visio option to do this other than manually checking the alarm state and changing the fill color myself?
Here are the steps to reproduce:
- Create a Service with a Masked Element as a child
- Use "All Parameters" to observe the desired behavior.
- Edit the Service, unchecking "All Parameters"
- Select some alarmed parameters
- Check the "[Element alarm state]" parameter which will have the value "Masked"
- I even tried checking every parameter in brackets.
- Element is no longer purple despite still being masked.
Desired outcome: Element is purple (As in step 3).
Hi Nick,
The behavior that you described is expected. When you include only a set of parameters of the element, the shape will display the alarm state of the parameters included in the service. You can overwrite this behavior by using the option FullElementState.
Hope it helps.
That doesn't work unfortunately because it is showing the overall alarm state, not only the parameters we've included in the element.
The question is, is there a parameter I can include in the service that would carry the "Mask" state? I know that the parameter called [Element Alarm State] will equal "Masked" when it is masked, but even if I include this parameter in the service it does not change color.
Is there something like FullElementState but only for Masked state, and otherwise it is just the service element?