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Chapter 6

Historical Data Logging and Extraction

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6-15

BridgeVIEW User Manual

Activity 6-2. Use the Historical Trend Viewer

The objective of this activity is to view logged data with the Historical
Trend Viewer.

You will use

mytanks.scf

in the

BridgeVIEW\Activity

directory, as

edited in Activity 3-1,

Configure a Tag, and View the Tag Configuration

Parameters and Tag Values

. You will view previously logged data

spanning over 25 minutes, which is included in the

BridgeVIEW\

Activity\Data

directory.

1.

Launch the HTV by selecting Project»Historical Trend Viewer….

2.

The Select Tags for HTV dialog box appears. Select the Powder,
Mixer, Liquid, and Product tags from the list of Available Tags and add
them to the Tags to Display list. Click OK.

When you close the Select Tags for HTV dialog box, the Historical
Trend Viewer appears, as shown in the following illustration.