Hi Dojo,
Would it be possible to give a shape (linked to a view or element) a default alarm color?
The goal would be that the shape is shown with the Green/Normal alarm level even if there are no monitored parameters. Currently if there are no monitored parameters the shapes are displayed with a grey color.
More info on the use case:
There is a table being alarmed on but this table doesn’t always contain rows. This behaviour results in the element and view showing up in a grey color while everything is still OK.
Thanks in advance.
Hi Robin,
This is possible when your shape is linked to an Alarm Filter (ref. Linking a shape to an alarm filter | DataMiner Docs -> Options : DefaultAlarmLevel=Normal). This option is not working with any other Shape Data unfortunetaly. If you want this functionality, I think you will have to make use of conditions based on the severity and create two shapes. Make use of the z-order to put the existing shape on top of the normal shape, and you will only need one condition (i.e. on the existing shape).
ref. Enum AlarmLevel | DataMiner Docs
Kind Regards,
Jarno
FYI, nowadays it’s doable to do this without condition, saving you some computing power, thanks to the BackgroundColor shape data and the Color placeholder with severity argument. I’m sure there’s a solution in here somewhere using this and some general element parameters.
https://docs.dataminer.services/user-guide/Basic_Functionality/Visio/miscellaneous/Setting_the_background_color_of_a_static_shape.html
https://docs.dataminer.services/user-guide/Basic_Functionality/Visio/reference/Placeholders_for_variables_in_shape_data_values.html