Display custom alarm columns on alarm banner with boolean type values as Yes/No or True/False instead of -1/0

[PiSorcerer]

Dear Developers,

Recently we came up with an issue. We mark some of our points as Safety Related (SR) per industry regulations. We needed to add a new alarm column to the alarm banner and lists so controllers could see which points are safety related. However, currently it is not displayed correctly. The values in the alarm banner are shown as -1 or 0. Which is developer's representation of True/False. The data field type is boolean. Thus, when displayed on alarm banner for a controller it makes it useless since it doesn't convey meaningful information to him. It would be nice if we could specify whether to display current values as Yes/No or True/False instead of -1/0.

Kindest Regards,

[sbeadle]

Thank you.

This is supported with List metadata fields.

You could add a List field which has a text description against each state. When you save that metadata field you'll then get an additional field named <fieldname>Desc which has the text description - add that to the alarm list/banner. Values are stored in a Byte, starting at 1. If never configured the field is zero with a blank text description.