Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Historian SE ActiveView 3.2 User Guide User Manual

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FactoryTalk Historian ActiveView User Guide

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Keyword

Section(s)

Description
flags do not appear. Note that this keyword
contains spaces.

EnableXPThemes

Startup

When set to 1, XP themes are supported in place
of the VBA color palette.

ConnectUsingAPI

Startup

This option is useful if you have VBA code or

ProcessBook add-ins that use the PI API to

retrieve data from the Historian Server. When set
to 0 (the default), FactoryTalk Historian

ActiveView makes connections to servers using
only PI-SDK. When set to 1, FactoryTalk Historian

ActiveView makes connections to each server
using both the PI-SDK and PI API.

UpdateTimeRange

Trend Definition,

XYPlot Definition

The maximum time range, in seconds, under

which a trend or XY plot symbol updates. The

default value is 604800 seconds (7 days). If the
time range is greater than this value, the symbol

does not refresh automatically even when the end
time is "*". This value is different from the update

rate (Timer), which is the frequency with which
new data from the Historian Server is added to

the display (by default, every 5 seconds).

Timer

Data Manager

Sets the poll timer, in milliseconds, for

FactoryTalk Historian ActiveView to update the
display with any data updates and then updates

the display. These updates include event pipe
data from the Historian Server and any new data

source re-queries. The maximum value is 60,000;
the default is 5000.

Collective Name

Collective

Preference

Overrides the default FactoryTalk Historian

ActiveView setting for connecting to the named

Historian Server collective. Note that this keyword
contains spaces.
Any specifies that FactoryTalk Historian
ActiveView can connect to any Historian Server in

the collective. This is the default.
PreferPrimary specifies that FactoryTalk

Historian ActiveView can connect to any Historian
Server in the collective but tries to connect to the

primary Historian Server in the collective. In
addition, if a secondary server is connected but

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