Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Historian SE ProcessBook 3.2 User Guide User Manual

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Data Streams

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create an independent display (a .PDI file), the data set is defined only for
that display. Trends including data sets can be manipulated, saved, moved,
and copied in the same fashion as other trends.

Whenever a display is updated, if a trace or value using a data set is
configured using relative times, then the trace or value is updated. No
updates occur if the data set is configured using absolute times.

You can edit an existing data set, either from the Tools menu or from a
symbol that uses the data set. However, if you have attached the data set to
more than one symbol, editing the data set affects all the symbols. If you
move a FactoryTalk Historian ProcessBook display containing a data set to
another machine, you may need to reconfigure the data set or the machine's
connection to the data source.

Three types of data sets are available to provide data to displays:

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