Add Silence Bell button to an embedded Alarm List object

[PiSorcerer]

Another feature that would be nice is for an embedded Alarm List object to have a Silence Bell (aka 'mute') button similar to the one that native alarm banner has. Currently user needs to click the tiny list menu icon on the bottom right of the Alarm List object and select 'Silence Bell' from the drop-down. So it's two clicks to get to that functionality vs one on the native alarm banner. And the developer should have an option whether to display the button or not on the custom Alarm List object.

[sbeadle]

This is possible.

You can add a graphic item with a pick action executing a simple script. This script can access the 'AlarmBellSounding' property on the embedded list to silence the bell. For example: Mimic.Layers(0).Item("Alrm_1").AlarmBellSounding = false

[PiSorcerer]

Yes, we tried that approach but the problem is that let's say a user has 4 screens open on 4 different monitors and Alarm List object is present at the bottom of each screen. And user has let's say 5 current unacknowledged alarms. For example user clicks a custom silence button on monitor 1 currently that silences alarm for that monitor only, but a second later you will hear alarm again because 2nd, 3rd, and 4th monitor have the Alarm List objects as well and these need to be silenced individually. So to fully/globally silence alarms user has to click custom silence button on each of 4 monitors so it runs the script: Mimic.Layers(0).Item("Alrm_1").AlarmBellSounding = false

Thus, it's not a global silencing. Looks like there's a deficiency. It works globally only if you click that native tiny list button and select 'Silence Bell' or bring the native alarm banner and click on the alarm count area on the left to apply global silencing.

What we're are looking for is the ability to add a custom SILENCE button that can be placed in any area of the screen and have this button perform global silencing just like native alarm banner. So no matter how many Alarm List objects are present on a display or multiple displays with Alarm List objects are opened on other monitors, user should be able to click custom silence button only once on one of any screens and it should silence all alarm sounds until next new alarm comes in (or any unacknowledged alarm currently present changes state). Currently it's not possible.