Alarm Message Templates

Templates can be used to define the alarm that is delivered via the alarm dialer (voice, email or pager) or via the text-to-speech feature.  These templates can use a combination of words and replaceable symbols to define the content of the alarm message.

 

Separate templates are available for each of:

      Spoken alarms                   see: AlarmSpeechTemplate

      The alarm dialer                 see: AlarmDialerTemplate

      Emailed alarms                  see: AlarmEmailTemplate

      Paged alarm messages        see: AlarmPagerTemplate

 

There are also two template configuration options that set the format used for the date and time if these parameters are used as part of the template.

 

      Date Format                     see: AlarmTemplateDateFmt

      Time Format                      see: AlarmTemplateTimeFmt

 

The complete list of replaceable parameters is as follows:

 

Parameter

Meaning

%T

Speak the time of the alarm

%D

Speak the date of the alarm

%M

Speak the alarm description

%V

Speak the alarm value (this is the value of the alarm trigger at the time that it triggered the alarm)

%U

Speak the units of the trigger tag.

%P

Speak the priority of the alarm (note that "High" might sound like a greeting)

%O

Speak the name of the operator logged on at the time the alarm was triggered.  If none, "Logged off" will be used.

%A

Speak the area of the alarm tag.

%W

Pause for Ľ second.  Has no effect on email or pager messages.

%N

New sentence for email and pager messages.