Vaisala viewLinc 4.1 - Manual (Page 19)

About Locations
viewLinc 4.1 User Guide 15
acknowledgement is not required on an alarm, the alarm
will be present in this window only if it is currently on.
• Trend Tab : When browsing the Locations tree, the trend
tab enables you to build and display location trends quickly
and save them as Views as follows.
Building a Trend with the Trend Tab
To create a custom trend using the trend tab:
1
Navigate the Locations tree to find a location you would
like to graph in a trend.
2 Drag and drop one or several locations from the
Locations tree onto the graph panel on the right.
3 Save the trend as a View by clicking the Options
dropdown and selecting
Save as View. The view will then
become available in the views section and can be
accessed any time. You can continue to build upon and
modify your trend at any time by simply dragging more
channels onto the graph and saving again.
4 Check and uncheck the ‘Selected’ column in the grid
located in the Locations tab just below the graph. Click
the
live button or click Options | Refresh to refresh the
graph and it will graph only the data you have selected
with these checkboxes.
5 Plot threshold lines on a location by checking the
‘Threshold Lines’ column and refreshing again. The
panel displays statistics information for each graph line.
6 Click on the Group Statistics tab to see the totals and
max/min ranges for all locations together.
7 Click on the Scale tab to adjust the values for the scale of
the graph. The default low/high range is set to auto.
Clicking on this ‘auto’ text enables you to enter new
values for the graph which will be applied when the graph
is refreshed or the
Live button is selected. There is a
maximum of 16 locations (lines) per trend.
8 Click Options | Save As Report and specify a name for
your report. The report will be available with the name
you specified in the Reports section.