RE: FoxView 99.2.1 trends
I did discover a way around the 5 step process of calling up an historical trend that might be enlightening to someone, I'm not sure. I configured buttons with the DM command "trend" on my existing trends. Trend lets you draw a trend with many different attributes. The full command is: trend [-g trendname] [-trdid n] [-line # [-name c:b.p] [-descr "dd"] [-range r] [-hist histname] [-gband g] [-minsp m] [-name0 0] [-name1 1] [-delta d] [-eng e] [-lcolor lc] [-marker m] [-dtype d]] [-scan "s u" | -dur "s u"] [-start time | -stop time | -display "du su"] [-banded | -merged] [-temp | -perm] [-gcolor gc] [-bgcolor bc] [-tstamp t] [-gvis gv] [-offnorm h,l] [-offnrmcolor oc] [-numgrid nli] [-nummkrs nm]][-resol "t u"] Which covers just about everything you can do with a trend. See B0193DF for full details on this command. We use mostly generic, re-useable trends, that get called up by clicking on an AIN or PIDA value, which in turn passes the COMPOUND:BLOCK as DM shared variables, such as $P3 and $P4. The dmcmd trend command can also use these shared variables in the -name switch to draw a new trend line. So now when the console guys call up our standard 1-hr trend, they have 4 buttons on the bottom which can change the trend to 2, 4, 6, or 12 hour with one click. Thanks, Foxboro, for getting me to look into this! Now it's much easier. Of course, if the console guys want more choices than that, they have to go through the whole 5 step procedure, or get me to make more buttons. Some of our guys know about the left-click "Calendar" type interface, but few use it because it is even more cumbersome than the existing 5 step system. First of all, you have to Pause the trend to even get the "Calendar", and it's kind of a mystery exactly where to click. This new "button" system is nice because you can get a longer trend immediately, and the buttons are very self-explanatory. If anybody wants to see what I did, I'll post some files on Cassandra. I'm not sure if dmcmd trend even works on DM though. Tim --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe foxboro" in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FoxView 99.2.1 trends
OOPS! I meant to say LEFT-CLICKING on the date/time of a paused trend. Stephen -Original Message- From: Murray, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 10:30 AM To: 'Foxboro DCS Mail List' Subject: RE: FoxView 99.2.1 trends Hi Tim, Another way of "adjusting" a trend is by right-clicking on the date/time of a paused trend. A dialog box should pop up that may give you the functionality you need without the hassle of the large do-everything dialog. Of course if you have a lot of trends that don't include the date & time at the bottom this won't work. Good Luck, Stephen -Original Message- From: Lowell, Tim: [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 8:20 AM To: 'Foxboro DCS Mail List' Subject: FoxView 99.2.1 trends We just got done upgrading all of our WP's to FoxView 99.2.1. For some reason, the on-line trend configuration tool was changed in this version to add 2 more steps to the process of calling up a historical trend. In version 99.2, you right-clicked the trend, clicked on the "week", "day", or "hour" button to set the time span of the trend, and hit OK, and you got the trend. In this version, you have to click on a "Duration Settings..." button, click on the "week", "day", or "hour", then click OK, then click on a completely useless dialog box that offers the choice of the highest and lowest possible "Scan rate" based on your selection of the time span, then click OK again, and finally get the trend. Is there any way to speed this process up with FoxView settings so that our console guys can bypass all these steps and just get a historical trend quickly? Why does it ask you for "scan rate" now? It used to be, whichever time span you picked determined the scan rate. This worked well, and nobody ever requested a change in any of the International Users Groups I ever went to. Often times, there isn't even a valid "lower scan rate", so that choice is greyed out and you must select the "upper scan rate" anyway. It seems to me that if someone wanted a choice of scan rates, you could make a button just for them, instead of forcing everyone to go through a separate dialog box, which often only has one choice. Any ideas out there, other than re-installing FoxView 99.2? Tim --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe foxboro" in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FoxView 99.2.1 trends
Hi Tim, Another way of "adjusting" a trend is by right-clicking on the date/time of a paused trend. A dialog box should pop up that may give you the functionality you need without the hassle of the large do-everything dialog. Of course if you have a lot of trends that don't include the date & time at the bottom this won't work. Good Luck, Stephen -Original Message- From: Lowell, Tim: [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 8:20 AM To: 'Foxboro DCS Mail List' Subject: FoxView 99.2.1 trends We just got done upgrading all of our WP's to FoxView 99.2.1. For some reason, the on-line trend configuration tool was changed in this version to add 2 more steps to the process of calling up a historical trend. In version 99.2, you right-clicked the trend, clicked on the "week", "day", or "hour" button to set the time span of the trend, and hit OK, and you got the trend. In this version, you have to click on a "Duration Settings..." button, click on the "week", "day", or "hour", then click OK, then click on a completely useless dialog box that offers the choice of the highest and lowest possible "Scan rate" based on your selection of the time span, then click OK again, and finally get the trend. Is there any way to speed this process up with FoxView settings so that our console guys can bypass all these steps and just get a historical trend quickly? Why does it ask you for "scan rate" now? It used to be, whichever time span you picked determined the scan rate. This worked well, and nobody ever requested a change in any of the International Users Groups I ever went to. Often times, there isn't even a valid "lower scan rate", so that choice is greyed out and you must select the "upper scan rate" anyway. It seems to me that if someone wanted a choice of scan rates, you could make a button just for them, instead of forcing everyone to go through a separate dialog box, which often only has one choice. Any ideas out there, other than re-installing FoxView 99.2? Tim --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe foxboro" in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FoxView 99.2.1 trends
We just got done upgrading all of our WP's to FoxView 99.2.1. For some reason, the on-line trend configuration tool was changed in this version to add 2 more steps to the process of calling up a historical trend. In version 99.2, you right-clicked the trend, clicked on the "week", "day", or "hour" button to set the time span of the trend, and hit OK, and you got the trend. In this version, you have to click on a "Duration Settings..." button, click on the "week", "day", or "hour", then click OK, then click on a completely useless dialog box that offers the choice of the highest and lowest possible "Scan rate" based on your selection of the time span, then click OK again, and finally get the trend. Is there any way to speed this process up with FoxView settings so that our console guys can bypass all these steps and just get a historical trend quickly? Why does it ask you for "scan rate" now? It used to be, whichever time span you picked determined the scan rate. This worked well, and nobody ever requested a change in any of the International Users Groups I ever went to. Often times, there isn't even a valid "lower scan rate", so that choice is greyed out and you must select the "upper scan rate" anyway. It seems to me that if someone wanted a choice of scan rates, you could make a button just for them, instead of forcing everyone to go through a separate dialog box, which often only has one choice. Any ideas out there, other than re-installing FoxView 99.2? Tim --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe foxboro" in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
