GE Industrial Solutions Control System Toolbox For Configuring the Trend Recorder - Manual (Page 26)

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Chapter 3 Types of Trends GEH-6408A Trend Recorder
Adding Signals
À To add signals to the Data Historian trend
Or click Add Signal
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From the Edit menu, choose Add Signal . The Data Historian Signal
Selection dialog box displays the following two choices for choosing signals.
Pick from Signal List
displays signals using
the normal Signal
Selector dialog box.
Pick from Collection
List displays a list of
signals from a
specified collection.
First, choose a
collection. Then,
choose a signal.
Choosing Signals From a Collection
Choose a signal from
the collection. Multiple
signals can be chosen
from this list.
If signals are added to the trend from more than one device, the lower Signal View
displays the name of the device before the name of the signal as follows:
After all the signals are added, the trend recorder reads data from the Data Historian
host and graphs the data (refer to the section, Recording Trends, in Chapter 4).
Signal settings can be edited the same as for real-time trends.