# Node-red in workplace. What are you using it for?

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**Created:** [10 September 2019 16:17 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-in-workplace-what-are-you-using-it-for/15367 "2019-09-10T16:17:27Z")\
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@dceejay @TotallyInformation  
Not the greatest example, but this is close to what you may find in an industrial setting.

Alarms are just a log of events that have occured that the user should be aware of. The list will display alarms that are active/un-acknowledged, active/acknowledged, inactive/un-acknowledged, inactive/acknowledged. It will also display what time the alarm occured and what time it was acknowledged. This particular example allows the user to enter a comment about the alarm which is very nice.

I have wanted so bad to make this into a ui-node. I just don't have the time anymore.  
Plus, to do this in a ui-node correctly, there would need to be other nodes that could be placed into parts of a flow to monitor values and then send a message containing its configured alarm message to the alarm list node. Not sure if that is possible or how to do that.

The ui\_table node might be able to do this, but will lack the ability to highlight active, acknowledged, inactive alarms individually.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/2X/f/fdf57ab0aa40f5d778a105b7157acb9e698b4cdd.png)

Sorry to derail, this just excites me lol

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