About InTouch Events

• Events represent normal system status messages, and do not require an operator response. A typical event is triggered when a certain system condition takes place, such as an operator logging into InTouch.
• An event is a detectable occurrence of something happening within the system, which may or may not be associated with an alarm. A transition into or out of an alarmed state is one kind of event. An event might also be an operator action, a change to the system configuration, or some kind of system error.
• An event is different than a condition. A condition can persist for minutes, hours, days, or weeks. An event is momentary; it takes place and is immediately over. An alarm is a condition; an alarm notification is an event.
• Events represent normal system status messages and do not require an operator response.
• When you define a tag to do event monitoring, you can choose to have event messages printed or logged to the alarm system each time the tag value changes. The event message includes how the value changed and whether the operator, I/O, scripts or the system initiated the change.

An event can be one of the following types: