Viewing and Sorting on Alarm Data
In a Perspective Session, operators can choose to display or hide alarm data in the table by checking or unchecking any of the Configuration Settings
, or right clicking in the header row of the table. You'll find that it's super easy to filter and display alarm event data using the configuration options provided in the column header of the Alarm Status Table. You can do a multi-column sort by holding down Ctrl + Shift and clicking on the column headers you want to sort by.
If you need to align the columns, simply put your cursor to the left of the column header and drag left or right. There is a 'strictWidth' property for each header column that can be configured in the Designer to strictly enforce the column width.

Sorting Alarm Data
Once your alarm is filtered, operators can also sort table columns in ascending or descending order by simply clicking the up or down arrows next to each column header.
Sorting on alarm State and Priority in the Alarm Status Table, by default, sorts in descending order. All the other columns the sort order is alphanumerical. Sort order for State and Priority are as follows:
- Alarm State - ActiveUnacknowledged, ActiveAcknowledged, ClearUnacknowledged, and Clear Acknowledged.
- Alarm Priority - Critical, High, Medium, Low, and Diagnostic.
The image below was filtered by ActiveUnacknowledged state, with a priority Critical and High. Once your alarm data is filtered, you can also sort on the data in multiple columns by holding down the Ctrl + Shift and clicking on the column headers you want to multisort by.
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8.0.11
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Perspective's Alarm Status Table now supports multiple sort orders. The order is first determined by the sort order properties on the Alarm Status Table. There are two new sort order properties: 'activeSortOrder
'
and 'shelvedSortOrder.'
Each column that you add to the sort order property will also need to have a sort defined under the columns property as either ascending or descending.

You also need to make sure the configuration columns you choose for your sort are displayed on your table. One of the most useful sort orders is by State - Priority - Active Time, as shown in the following image. Notice how each column is numbered according to your activeSortOrder
property.

Columns will first sort by anything defined in sortOrder and then fallback to the other sorts defined in the column configuration.