Issue
When columns are hidden in the Alarm View and the view is printed, the column headers are printed correctly but column data is printed as if no columns are hidden. Therefore, column headers following a hidden column are printed with the wrong data beneath them.
Environment
Vista 5.1.3
Vista 5.1.4
Vista 5.1.5
Vista 5.1.6
Vista 5.1.7
Workstation
Cause
The Alarm View in Vista Workstation can be customised to hide selected columns (right-click in Alarm View and select 'Customize...'). The Customization dialog shows a list of the nine available columns, all selected by default. Columns can be hidden by deselecting their checkbox, and the display order can be changed by moving columns up or down the list.
On screen, this has the desired result. However, when the customized Alarm View is printed (right-click in Alarm View and select 'Print'), the results are very different.
For example, the full alarm list contains these columns:-
State Count Priority Last Change Object ID Text Linked Object Tripped User
Now hide every column except: State Count Priority Object ID Text
The on-screen results are as expected:
State Count Priority Object ID Text
StateData CountData PriorityData ObjectIDdata TextData
When the Alarm View is printed, this is the result:
State Count Priority Object ID Text
StateData CountData PriorityData LastChangedata ObjectIDdata
The column headers are printed correctly, but the column data are printed as if the 'Last Change' column is not hidden., although the correct number of columns is printed.
Reordering the columns using the 'Move Up' and 'Move Down' buttons does not help. The column data are always printed in the default column order.
Resolution
Only hide columns at the end of the default column list. Hidden columns in the middle of displayed columns will cause the printout to be incorrect.
This error has been around since Vista 5.1.3 up to the current version 5.1.7. It may be fixed in a future version.
