Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Metrics Line Edition Administrators Guide - Manual (Page 37)

4 • C ONFIGURING F ACTORY T ALK M ETRICS LE
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4. Click the License & Activation tab and select FactoryTalk Metrics Author
checkbox. This allows the user to configure FactoryTalk Metrics using the
Configuration Console and the FactoryTalk Metrics LE Configuration Tool. This also
consumes one FactoryTalk Metrics Author activation. We will assume that the user is
FTAuthor. You may make as many users authors as you have FactoryTalk Metrics
Author activations.
5. Click the Privileges tab and select all of the privileges. This ensures that the user will
have the ability to perform all tasks from within FactoryTalk Metrics LE.
6. Click OK.
E NABLING FLEX FIELDS
Flex fields (or user-defined summarization criteria) are optional data values you can
collect from the control system to give the rest of your historical data additional context.
The standard summarization criteria include Shift and Part Id. Therefore, you can group or
sort all FactoryTalk Metrics data you collect by these values. You can define additional
flex fields at the system level. Each configured workcell can optionally collect flex field
data from the control system. At the system level you only enable, name, and define types
for flex fields available for collection. For more information about flex fields, refer to the
RSBizWare Administration Guide.
FactoryTalk Metrics allows up to five flex fields.
To enable flex fields:
1. In the RSBizWare Service Console under the Metrics Server Manager tree item, select
the FactoryTalk Metrics Flex-Fields tree item. The five FactoryTalk Metrics flex
fields (user-defined summarization fields) appear.
2. To enable a flex field, double-click the row of the desired flex field and select the
following options on the Configure Summarization Criteria dialog box:
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Name. Flex fields are named by default (for example, "User Defined
Summarization Field 1" etc.). If you don't change the flex field name here, the
name will appear as "User Defined Summarization Field 1" in the Performance
Parameter screen as well as in the Report Expert parameters. The name you assign
here will reference the flex field throughout the application.
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Enable This Summarization Criteria. This enables the selected flex field. Flex
fields that are not enabled do not appear elsewhere in the application.
For more information on configuring the RSBizWare Service Console, refer to the
RSBizWare Administrator’s Guide.
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