Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk View Site Edition Users Guide - Manual (Page 617)

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Using trend templates
You can use a trend template to:
 Apply a consistent appearance to trend charts.
 Create a set of different views for the same data.
 Return to a standard display after experimenting with display options.
 Save pen attribute data.
Use the Trend Properties dialog box to create a trend template. For details about options
in the dialog box, click Help.
Applying a consistent appearance to trend charts
Create a trend template to standardize a trend chart for all your applications.
Use a standard template when you have several different applications, and you need the
trend chart to work the same way in each application.
When you have created and saved the template, load the template into each application’s
trend chart.
Creating a set of different views for the same data
To assess the same data in different ways, create trend templates that provide different
views of the data.
Load the trend templates at run time, to change the appearance of the trend
Returning to a standard display
Create a trend template to use as a standard trend display.
Load the standard display template after an operator changes the trend chart settings, and
you want to return to the standard trend chart.
Saving pen attribute data
Create a trend template to save pen attribute data.
You can add a number of new pens at run time, create a template, and then save pen
attribute data with the template. The next time you run the trend, if you want the same pen
attribute data, you can load the template.