How Do I Set Up An Emergency Profile?

General Profile Information to be read first

An emergency can be entered that will block any scheduled profiles for the duration of the emergency.  To get out of the emergency profile, the most common action is to return to scheduled profile.  If the controller has no schedules (for instance, if it only has one normal profile), it is still recommended to have a schedule for that single profile, so that the controller knows which profile to return to.  Alternatively, if there is a single profile on the control system, the action "Go to Profile (Ignore Priority)" can be used.

First, set up a profile with an elevated profile priority.  

Click Site at the top right and select the Profile Tab.

Each profile has a Priority.  Setting the profile priority above "standard" ensures that a regularly scheduled profile cannot cause a controller to exit the higher priority profile.  The controller should remain in the emergency profile until instructed to exit via the absolute input or other means.  

A profile can only interrupt a profile with lower priority. 

Ensure that the profile is assigned to the controller (Control System->Profile Assignment)

In the absolute input section (Instance Types->Absolute Input), configure your absolute input to be a binary (or inverted binary, depending on orientation) for all profiles, including the emergency profile.

Give the absolute input a system variable to trigger a sequence on.  This will often instead be a zone - so as to broadcast a broader trigger out to multiple controllers.

Create a sequence to enter/exit the emergency profile.  This is a 2 action basic sequence that uses the absolute input value to either go into the emergency profile or return to the scheduled profile (which can be used to exit a high priority profile).

Action 1

Condition "IF input at value 0" do Action Profile Function -> Enter Profile -> "3 - Emergency Profile"

Action 2

Condition "IF input at value 1" do Action Profile Function -> Return to scheduled profile (can also use Go to Profile (ignore priority).  This would depend on whether the system was running schedules or not.  If the system is running schedules (multiple profiles), the control system carries the last scheduled profile change heard.  If the system does NOT have schedules, the last scheduled profile change may never have been set, and thus, return to scheduled profile may not work.

(Note that the below image happens to use profile number, 65333 instead).

Apply a trigger entry (Sequences&Triggers->Trigger), type System Variable, with target of the System Variable you created for your Absolute input.  Select to run on target "Broadcast" and place the sequence in ALL profiles in the "Standard" position (Normal Hours, After Hours and Emergency).  Each time the absolute input is changed, the evaluation sequence will be triggered.   

To ensure that the lights are all turned on in the Emergency profile, create a single action sequence to broadcast recall maximum level to all lights and apply this sequence (named "Emergency Mode" in the image bowl) to the emergency profile row already set up as an "On entry" sequence.  

Naturally, leave switches, sensors and other sequences disabled from operating in this emergency profile, to ensure that all lights remain on.