User Guide
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Alarm Management
Overview of Event Filters
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The system does not provide selected or predefined filter criteria. The filter options
and Apply button become available only when you select one or more filter criteria.
If you have already applied a custom filter to the Event List and then you reopen
the Advanced Filter window, it contains the filter settings/criteria you applied. In this
case, you can also save or modify the applied custom filter.
5.4.4 Working with Event Filters
The following procedures describe common event filter operating tasks (available
from the Summary bar [➙ 71]).
See also:
Overview of Event Filters [➙ 91]
5.4.4.1 Activating the Quick Filter
You want to view events of a single category.
In the Summary bar, click the event lamp that corresponds with the category of
event for which you want to filter.
The color of the selected event lamp becomes darker to indicate that a filter is
applied, and the Filter icon changes color (filter on)
. Event List displays all
open events in full detail for the category you selected, and the title bar
displays the type of applied filter.
5.4.4.2 Activating the Simple Filter
You want to view events with an attribute in common other than event
category, such as by discipline, by date and time, by maintenance state, by
event state.
1. In the Summary bar, click Filter .
2. From the Filter menu, select the attribute for which you want to filter, or the filter
you want to apply.
All open events that have the attribute you selected display in Event List, and
the title bar displays the type of applied filter. As with all filters, the Filter icon
changes color (filter on)
.
5.4.4.3 Creating and Activating a Custom Filter
You want to filter a set of events by applying multiple criteria and/or attributes.
1. In the Summary bar, click Filter .
2. From the Filter menu, select Advanced Filter.
The Advanced Filter dialog box displays.
3. Choose one or more filter criteria as follows:
– Select the options that correspond to the criteria you want to use
(
Category, Discipline, Event status, Source status).