History Configuration

• Historizable Data Types for Attributes
  • Attributes of the following data types support historization:
    • Float (numerical)
    • Double (numerical)
    • Integer (numerical)
    • Boolean (non-numerical)
    • String – Unicode (non-numerical)
    • CustomEnum (non-numerical) maps to Historian Integer
    • ElapsedTime (numerical) maps to Historian Float, converted to seconds.
  • Entire arrays or portions of arrays are not supported. All numerical attributes are sent to the Historian in the engineering units form exposed by the attribute, and Historian does not scale the value. Additionally, the historized object does all change detection and value deadbanding.

ActiveFactory Controls

• ActiveFactory provides some of its applications and functionality as .NET controls. Using the Client Controls functionality of ArchestrA, ActiveFactory .NET controls can be imported into the galaxy as Client Controls to be embedded into ArchestrA Symbols.
• The installation of ActiveFactory will automatically install the .NET controls available. Using the ArchestrA IDE, the .NET controls can be imported into the Galaxy from the following default location: C:\Program Files\Common Files\ArchestrA.
• For more information about Client Controls and how to import them.
• The following are the only ActiveFactory .NET controls supported:
  • aaHistClientTrendControl
  • aaHistClientQueryControl
  • aaHistClientSingleValueEntryControl
  • aaHistClientTagPicker
  • aaHistClientTimeRangePicker
  • aaHistClientActiveDataGridControl

• aaHistClientTrendControl

  • The aaHistClientTrend control allows you to run the ActiveFactory Trend program (or a functional subset) from within the Wonderware InTouch HMI software or a .NET container like Visual Basic .NET or Internet Explorer.
  • Trend is a client application that allows you to query tags from a Historian database and plot them on a graphical display. Trend supports two different chart types: a regular trend curve and an XY scatter plot.

• aaHistClientTagPicker

  • The aaHistClientTagPicker control allows you to view the hierarchy of objects in the Wonderware Historian database (for example, tags, InTouch nodes, events, and so on) in a hierarchical format.

• aaHistClientTimeRangePicker

  • The aaHistClientTimeRangePicker control allows you to select a time duration based on a start time, duration and/or end time.

• aaHistClientActiveDataGrid Control

  • The aaHistClientActiveDataGrid control can execute any SQL query from any Wonderware Historian or Microsoft SQL Server database and return the results in a grid.

Note: The aaHistClientActiveDataGrid does not support data definition or data manipulation queries

• aaHistClientSingleValueEntry Control

  • Use the aaHistClientSingleValueEntry control to manually add a tag value to the Wonderware Historian database.