AddiHistorianLine Method

AddiHistorianLine is a method for a Trend Invoke method action.

Purpose: AddiHistorianLine

Advanced Configuration: AddiHistorianLine

Purpose: AddiHistorianLine

To add an Historian line to the runtime Trend Control when Invoke Method is triggered by an event.

iHistorian lines display a combination of runtime and archived data. Both types of data are reported by Historian.  The behavior of the Historian line type depends on the Allow Runtime Scrolling property

Advanced Configuration: AddiHistorianLine

Click Advanced on the Action tab of the Procedure Information dialog box.

The Edit Method dialog box opens for the AddiHistorianLine method

Configuration is as follows.

Field

Description

Method name

Name of the selected method.

Note: Another method can be selected from the drop-down list.

Method result

(Optional) Setpoint that contains the status value.

 

Class

Boolean

 

Structure Type

BOOL

 

Allowed

Device or global Point ID.

 

When a user invokes the method, the method result contains one of the following values.

 

 

Value

Method Result

 

 

1

The line was successfully added to the trend.

 

 

0

The line was not added to the trend.

Parameters

LineID

String that provides a name for the Line ID.

The name will appear in the Legend to identify the added line.

 

TagID

String that provides the name for the Historian Tag ID.

 

Server

String that provides a name for the Historian Server.

 

User

String that provides a user log in name that is recognized by the Historian Server.

 

Password

String that provides a password for the specified user that is recognized by the Historian Server .

 

 

 

 

 

Note: The source for a IHistorian line can be a tag collected by any Historian Collector.

More information

List of line display methods.

All Trend methods.