Are you saying that you want a spreadsheet that has your definition of the alarms and that spreadsheet should somehow be able to be run against an AF server running Notifications so they are all created without getting RSI?

No worries with this now. I've tried and failed to do it with Excel, but it looks like MS Word is going to come to the rescue.

Export a notification as xml without all the unique IDs etc,
chop off the header and save as txt,
load it into Word as a letter and use mail merge linked to a table with all the required combinations (notification name, trigger, submissions, subject etc),
add the header back,
import the xml into Notifications.

I tried exporting and importing multiple notifications with manually edited xml files and it looks like it works.

There are two strings in the export that look like ID numbers (eg GUID) but I checked them with OSI and if the elements are using the same attribute (in this case just Pipoint.value) then these values can stay the same for every notification.

Can't test it properly 'till Monday because I was just playing with it on the train home tonight, but it seems solid. I'll let you know the results soon.

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