GE Industrial Solutions Control System Toolbox For Configuring the Trend Recorder - Manual (Page 25)

GEH-6408A Trend Recorder Chapter 3 Types of Trends
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Data Historian Trends
The Trend Recorder can upload and display data collected by the Data Historian.
The Data Historian is a service on a Windows NT platform. It can collect data
continuously or upload Capture Buffers from a controller. The Data Historian
configuration groups signals into collections. There are two types of collections:
real-time continuous or Capture Buffer uploaded. Collected data for each
collection is stored in .dca format files.
Configuring the Trend
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To set up a Data Historian trend
1. From the Edit menu, choose Configure . The Trend Recorder
Configuration dialog box displays.
2. From the Trend Type option buttons, choose Data Historian . The Data
Historian Trend Configuration dialog box displays.
Data Historian Trend Configuration
Enter the Microsoft
Networking name for
the PC that is the
host for the Data
Historian service.
Select the mode of
the X-Y plot. For a
detailed description
of X-Y plots, refer to
the section,
X-Y
Plots , in Chapter 5,
Viewing Trends .
Select the Data Historian tab to
specify a trend based on data
collected by the Data Historian.
Save Mode allows you to specify whether to save
just the setup for the trend or save the setup and all
data that is collected. Setup Only saves all the
signals, their scaling, the sample interval, axis
ranges, and other setup data.
Click OK, and add signals to the Data Historian collection. (Refer to the section,
Adding Signals.)