I then cloned that 500 times and used notepad++ regex's to fill in the X's. Once I was happy I imported the .json file and all worked as planned. Was surprisingly quick once I had it setup. Could probably do a few 1000 alarms in an hour or so this way. I would advise against this on new projects & bigger projects and use UDTs instead but for a quick fix to integrate older pre-established PLC code into ignition it did the job