Alarms
Alarms are a component in an Event which displays an alert to all users running the event. Similar to Images and labels, they do not actually interact with or have any impact from a technical perspective on the Event. All Alarms do is provide a means of notifying users with some predefined text via the Event UI. While simple, this can also be very useful when it comes to notifications for those participating in the Event.
Alarms are triggered via Action Sequences similar to many other Event components.
See Also: Action Sequence - Alarms
Alarms are not very complicated but do have a few key properties.
The value you place in the Label property is simply for your own reference in the builder and is not displayed during run time.
The Importance section allows you to define how you want the alarm visualized when it appears to on the participants screen. There are three choices which are detailed below.
The Display Mode allows you to define how interactive you want the alarm to be. If you select Fader then the alarm will simply appear as a notification bubble on each users screen and then fade away after a few seconds.
If you choose Pop-up then the alarm will display as a pop up box which requires the user to acknowledge it (hit OK) before being able to continue interacting with the event.
The Global Acknowledgement setting only applies to alarms you have set to Pop-up. It determines if a single acknowledgement is sufficient or if each participant must acknowledge the alarm independently. In other words, when an alarm is triggered and a popup appears to all the users if the Global Acknowledgement option is checked then when the first users clicks "OK" to dismiss the alarm it will simultaneously disappear from all other users displays. If Global Acknowledgement is left unchecked then each participant will have to click the "OK" button independent of each other.
Note: If Global Acknowledgement is checked then users who join the event will be presented with any active Alarms also until someone somewhere clicks OK (it will be persistent).
The Title will appear as the title of the Alarm if Pop-up is selected.
The Text / Message is what you wish to convey to the participants. This is the message that will be displayed to all the users.
Importance
As stated above, the importance value determines the color and level of criticality displayed to the user. Informative alarms are displayed in a blue-ish format with, Warning alarms are displayed in a yellow-ish format and Critical alarms are displayed in a red-ish format.
Display Mode
Here are examples of the various Importance options displayed as with the Fader option set.
Here are examples of the various Importance options displayed as with the Popup option set.
Alarms are visual only. If you wish to include audible alerts with your Alarms be sure to add an Audio action into the triggering sequence!