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2.5 Trend viewers
Trend viewer is a tool designed to show historical data in the form of a trend (a chart where X
axis is always time). Web Client's trend viewer is designed to show two different types of
trends: defined trend – trend predefined in Trend Manager (see Runtime software help) and
tag trend – trend showing values of selected tag (contains one series).
Data viewed in the Trend viewer is downloaded from the data server when they are needed
and cached by the viewer to speed up browsing. After the viewer is closed, cache is deleted.
Any part of the trend can be magnified with the zoom function – to define the area that
should be magnified, drag the mouse from top left to bottom right. To display the trend in
original size (cancel zoom), drag the mouse from bottom right to top left.
Right side of the Trend Viewer contains a Quick Setup Panel. It is designed to make quick
changes in the basic trend settings (3D view, title and legend visibility, axis ranges). To show
hidden Quick Setup Panel, select an appropriate command from the toolbar.
Trend settings are automatically stored on the local computer in the user's profile (profile in
the OS) and is separate for every project.
Bottom panel contains the information about a number of downloaded/displayed samples
(sum of samples contained in all series). Trend viewer is not modal, which means that the
user can work with the Web Client even if the list is opened.
Toolbar commands
Defined trend
Tag trend
2.5.1 Toolbar commands
Toolbar and trend viewer local menu contains following commands:
Full Backward
Scrolls the trend view backward by full time range (page).
Half Backward
Scrolls the trend view backward by half a time range (page).
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Half Forward
Scrolls the trend view forward by full time range (page).
Full Forward
Scrolls the trend view forward by half a time range (page).
Forward to Latest
Scrolls the trend view forward to the latest data.
Custom Time Axis Range
Brings up the dialog that enables you to manually specify the time range. If the time
range is specified as a number of samples, the it is defined with a time stamp, direction
and sample count. If the time range is specified as a time, it is defined with a beginning
and ending time stamp.
Note: If a Tag trend is used, the range is defined with a time stamp, direction and sample
count.
Custom Time Axis Range
Show Tag Information
Shows the Tag Information dialog window; command is present only for tag trends (if
trend viewer is opened via File > Tag Trend).
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