Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Historian SE ProcessBook 3.2 User Guide - Manual (Page 299)

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Embedding and Linking
FactoryTalk Historian ProcessBook provides the capability to use OLE
linking and embedding (page 283). You can embed or link OLE objects
from other Windows applications into a ProcessBook display. The data
might be derived from a wide variety of OLE-compliant applications, such
as spreadsheets, documents, graphics objects, etc.
FactoryTalk Historian ProcessBook is an OLE Automation server.
Programmers can write scripts that manipulate and retrieve FactoryTalk
Historian data.
Overview of FactoryTalk Historian ProcessBook
OLE Compound Documents
ActiveX is Microsoft technology used for developing reusable object
oriented software components. Container applications are those that can
contain ActiveX objects.
Compound Documents are documents that contain parts from more than
one application. The parts may be spreadsheets, word processing
documents, ProcessBook displays, etc. A compound document consists of
a container document plus sub-documents that are 'served' by other
applications
FactoryTalk Historian ProcessBook compound document functionality has
two aspects:
 ProcessBook displays can be containers for objects from other
applications, such as databases, spreadsheets, or documents.