User guide

addVANTAGE Pro 6.2 User Guide CHAPTER 4

The Trend Viewer

placing the cursor in the legend for the respective tag. After a short delay a tool

tip pops up, displaying the tag’s full path.

Note: Currently the drag and drop method works only if you are using Microsoft

Internet Explorer. In Firefox you can still drag and drop tags, but only onto a

Trend viewer icon within the same Explorer.

Viewing Trends from Explorer

addVANTAGE Pro 6.2 provides another way of creating a trend view, right from

your Explorer. This is a great way to quickly create a trend panel for temporarily

looking at data.

1. In the Explorer select the tags you want to see in your Trend (left-click the

desired tags while holding down the Shift or the Ctrl key).

2. Right-click the selected tags and select View Data from the context menu

as shown in Figure 35.

Figure 35. View Data from Explorer

If you want to keep this Trend, you need to save it by clicking on the Save icon.

Else if you close the panel you will be asked if you want to save it, unless you

have selected Tools

User optionsPanels Automatically save panels on

close. In this case the new panel will be discarded unless you save it manually.

Using Properties to Add Tags to Trends

If you can’t use drag and drop, follow these steps to display data in a Trend

viewer:

1. In an active Trend viewer, click Properties to display the Trend Options

dialog shown in Figure 36.

2. Click Add to display the Tag Chooser dialog listing the available tags.

3. Expand the tree until you find the tags you need to display (you can select

more than one tag by using the shift and control keys).

4. Click OK when you are finished. The selected tags are now displayed in the

Tags list, in the order you chose them.

If you need to add other tags in the Trend viewer, including tags from different

areas/RTUs, repeat Step 2 through Step 4. To delete a tag, select it and click the

Remove button. By using the arrow buttons, you can change the order of the

tags in the list. When the Trend Options dialog lists all the tags you want to