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Alarms
Alarms and Event Treatment Reference
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User Guide Version 3.0
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Building Technologies
2017-11-30
3.2.1.13 Recurring Events Reference
A recurring event occurs when the same event source repeatedly generates the
same alarm condition. More specifically, this happens when the same property of a
field point continuously switches between the active and quiet states. For related
procedures, see Handling Recurrences of an Event [ 83].
If allowed by the Client Profile, in Event List, recurring events are grouped together
under a parent event, which acts as a container for them. The parent event has a
Counter field in its event descriptor that indicates the total number of occurrences.
This counter automatically increments whenever the same event recurs again.
Recurring events grouped together under a parent event are not allowed in UL
864-compliant and ULC S527-compliant fire stations. This behavior is not allowed
also in Danger Management AT, and Total Building Solution NA profiles. In all the
above case, events belonging to the same source and category display as
individual events in Event List.
Information Contained in the Parent Recurrent Event
The parent event descriptor always displays the most recent recurrence of the
event, (which also corresponds with the topmost recurrence of the set), along with
the following summary information:
Event Status of the most important recurrence (priority order is Unprocessed,
Waiting for condition, then Ready to be closed)
Source Status of the most recent recurrence
ID of the event identified by [...] indicating the range between the first and the
last recurrence (for example, 3201…3245)
Counter indicating the total number of times this event has recurred.
Children of a Recurring Event
You can expand a recurring event by clicking its Counter field. See Expanding or
Hiding the Recurrences of an Event [➙ 83].
The children of a recurring event display under the parent event. The children are
always sorted by date and time in ascending order, irrespective of what sorting is
applied to Event List. See Event Sorting Reference [➙ 113].
Tags and Filters Applied to Recurring Events
When you apply tags or filters to Event List:
Tagging/untagging a parent event affects all its child recurrences.
You can also separately tag/untag an individual child recurrence.
If you tag a recurring event (parent plus all its children) and apply a Hide
tagged events filter, a new recurrence of that event will cause only the parent
event to display again, along with the new recurrence. (The other recurrences
will remain hidden).
The Counter field in the parent event always shows the total number of
recurrences, irrespective of whether they are tagged, untagged, or filtered.
When filtering recurring events, the filter applies only to the parent event, with
the exception of the Filter by Tag that also applies to any child recurrences.
Assisted or Investigative Treatment of Recurring Events
You can start Investigative/Assisted treatment of a recurring event in the same way
that you would for a non-recurring event. See Handling an Event with Investigative
Treatment [➙ 71] and Handling an Event with Assisted Treatment [➙ 72].
In the case of Assisted Treatment, depending on configuration you may be able to
follow an assisted procedure for each child recurrence separately, or there may be
a single assisted procedure that applies to the entire set of recurrences.