Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Historian Classic User Guide - Manual (Page 129)

Creating RSBizWare Custom Analysis Tools Chapter 7
following the analysis tool name. That is a global unique
identifier (GUID), which is what Microsoft Windows uses to
identify software components uniquely. You can ignore the
GUID.
NOTE
If you select a DLL, EXE, or OCX file that does not contain a valid
custom analysis tool, you will see the following message: “The
selected file is not a valid Analysis Tool (it does not contain a
type library).” To fix this with the sample custom analysis tool,
select the correct DLL that contains the custom analysis tool and
try again.
6. Click OK to exit the Configure Custom Analysis Tool screen.
The new custom analysis tool is now registered.
You only need to register a custom analysis tool one time in
the Configuration Console. After a custom analysis tool is
registered, the Configuration Console automatically loads the
custom analysis tool when it is needed.
Once you have registered a custom analysis tool, you can use it on
time-series charts just as you would use the built-in analysis tools
that are delivered with the software. See chapter "Analyzing
FactoryTalk Historian Classic Data (page 41)" for information on
how to apply an analysis tool to a time-series chart.
RSBizWare installs two sample custom analysis tools. Both custom
analysis tools compute the exact same thing–a weighted average of
the selected data set. One sample analysis tool was written in Visual
Basic and one was written in Visual C++. While the output of each
sample analysis tool is identical, the work involved to develop each
analysis tool is quite different. You will take a quick tour of the
VbFlat sample analysis tool.
The VbFlat sample custom analysis tool was developed in Visual
Basic. To look at the VbFlat project, start Visual Basic and open the
VbFlat.vbp project in the directory from which you registered the
VbFlat.DLL in "Registering a Sample Analysis Tool (page 127)".
Using the Sample Analysis
Tool for Time-series Analysis
What You Need to Know
Before You Start
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