Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Historian Classic User Guide - Manual (Page 123)

Advanced Reporting Topics Chapter 6
The final step of the wizard contains the Data Point Configuration
Table page shown below. Here you set up the data point
configuration table, which is a database table that contains
descriptive information about the reporting tags, including a
reporting tag ID field, a reporting tag description field, and an
engineering unit field. The data point configuration table will be
joined to the report data source table by the reporting tag ID field.
Each time-series report data source must use a different
configuration table.
1. Select a table from the drop-down list or click the Create
Configuration Table button to create a new table. The table
fields will be listed in the grid at the bottom of the dialog box.
2. For each field in the configuration table, click the Timeseries
Use cell and select a role from the list that will be displayed.
This step is not necessary if you used the Create
Configuration Table button to create a new table.
3. Click Next to display the Review Results page. This dialog
box displays a summary of the new report data source that will
Step 8: Create a Data Point
Configuration Table
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