CIMPLICITY Data Types vs. Historian Data Types

CIMPLICITY ensures that the data type in Historian is long enough to accommodate the CIMPLICITY data type length.

Data type mapping is as follows.

Data Type

CIMPLICITY

Historian

Integer

DINT

Double integer

 

INT

Double integer

 

REAL

Double float

 

SINT

Double integer

 

UDINT

Double float

 

UINT

Double integer

 

USINT

Double integer

Boolean

BOOL

Integer

 

BYTE

Double integer

 

DWORD

Double integer

 

WORD

Double integer

Text

STRING

Variable string

 

STRING_20

Variable string

 

STRING_8

Variable string

 

STRING_80

Variable string

Caution: You can change the data type in Historian. However, if you checked Overwrite on the Historian tab in the CIMPLICITY Project Properties dialog box,

More information

Technical reference for Historian integration.