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Create alarm attribute file
Procedure:
1. You can copy a sample alarm attribute file "oem_slaedatabase.xml" from the directory:
2. Save the file in the directory /oem/sinumerik/hmi/cfg/ or
3. Assign a unique name to the file, e.g. " muster_slaedatabase.xml ".
Defining alarm colors
Procedure:
1. Open the file "muster_slaedatabase.xml" in the editor.
2. First, enter which alarm colors you generally wish to change.
3. Enter the attribute name of the alarm color to be changed in the <Attribute AttrName=...>
4. Alarm sources are defined in the <Sources> area for whose alarms the alarm colors are
5. In the <Alarms> tag, create a separate sub-area for each alarm or for an alarm number
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/siemens/sinumerik/hmi/template/cfg/
/user/sinumerik/hmi/cfg/
The file name can be freely selected; however, it must only contain lower-case letters.
To do this, create a separate section <Attribute> for each alarm color that you wish to
change in the <Attributes> area.
tag. You can change the following colors:
– Font color of the alarm/message text = TEXTCOLOR
– Background color of the alarm/message text = TEXTBACKGROUNDCOLOR
– Font color of the alarm number = NUMBERCOLOR
– Background color of the alarm number = NUMBERBACKGROUNDCOLOR
to be changed, e.g. the alarm sources "/HMI" and "/PLC/PMC".
Note
If you insert further alarm sources, make sure that the alarm number is always assigned
to the correct alarm source.
The possible values for source ID and URL can be found in the table in Section Range of
alarms (Page 217).
range.
13.2 Configuring alarm and message texts via alarm text files
Configuring alarms
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