Multiple value functions, Pincompdat() – Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Historian SE DataLink 4.2 User Guide User Manual

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Returns

Outcode

Archive Value

Time stamp

0

output cell

1

left column

output cell

2

output cell

row above

Example:

The following calculates the square root of the value of the tag sinusoid
from the FactoryTalk Historian server thevax at midnight yesterday:

=PIExpVal("sqr('sinusoid')","y",0,"thevax")

Multiple Value Functions

Multiple value functions associate a FactoryTalk Historian point with a
range of time over which there can be one or many corresponding values at
different points in time.

PINCompDat()

Retrieves a number of FactoryTalk Historian point values corresponding to
a specified start time, using the following syntax:

PINCompDat(tagname, stime, numvals, outcode, PIServer, mode)

Arguments

Argument

Value

tagname (string)

The tag name or names matching the desired FactoryTalk Historian

points.

stime (string)

The start time for the range of retrieved values (in FactoryTalk

Historian time format).

numvals (integer)

The number of desired values (negative if counting backward in time).

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