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Customer Request - Create an on screen button to print (to paper) last 8 hours of alarms.

Hi All!

I recently had a customer request a way to print to paper the previous 8 hours of new alarms.

This doesn't seem that challenging, but it does require a few different pieces to dance together.  Has anyone in the group ever had a similar customer request?  If you have, would you mind sharing your methodology?  

If I was doing this from scratch, I'd use the alarm summary export to create an XML file, then, I'd consider using python to parse the elements of the tree into a text file, and it's possible to print that right to a printer from the classic windows command prompt using the print command. 

If anyone has a need for this method, I can share partial source code for parsing XML in python- I'd rather not re-invent the wheel if I don't need to.

Many thanks,

Bruce Schaller