Disable Alarm Banner or Hide Banner by Default

[tfranklin]

We've run into a few instances where customers want users who access ViewX to not have access to the Alarm Banner function of ViewX.  These users still can see alarms on embedded alarm lists/displays, however the desire is to disable the alarm banner function in general.

Lets say you are a new user who is accessing Virtual ViewX for the first time.  The alarm banner will come up on your initial login and you can hide it.  Those settings are stored so the next time you launch VVX it won't show up. 

The idea here is that we want to either disable the alarm banner completely or hide the banner by default for users.  Since this can be rolled into VVX I think a checkbox on the user properties makes the most sense.  Initially I figured a switch in the Startup Config would be the best route, but since we don't have access to this in VVX there's no way to alter it. 

If this is already possible through some other place, I'm all ears, else I think this would be a welcomed addition. 

[sbeadle]

Thank you

[BevanWeiss]

I was about to say this is already possible using the ViewX startup XML files, but in reading into these it appears that the options are only 'DockedTop', 'DockedBottom', 'Fill'.. it really needs an option for 'None'.

Also... it appears that this won't work at all with Virtual ViewX clients.. since they apparently ignore the Startup XML files.

So it seems that an alternative method would need to be created for Virtual ViewX also... glad I'm still advising clients to avoid it.

[sbeadle]

Geo SCADA 2021 (later monthly releases) already hides the alarm banner by default, as it also hides the ribbon.