Point and Class Attributes

Dynamic Graphical Replay provides limited support for point attributes (e.g. time stamp, resource, etc.). The point attributes that are supported include only those accessible from the CIMPLICITY Point Browser’s tree view.

Point attributes in DGR that are supported are supported in one of the following ways.

Historical values (if available) Some point attributes can be logged to the DATA_LOG table as follows.
If Attributes are: DGR Displays:
Configured for logging to the SQL DATA_LOG table, The following attributes are logged to the SQL database.
  • Point Value
  • Prev. Value
  • Raw value
  • Alarm state
  • Resource
  • Time last Logged
  • Engineering Units
  • Quality
  • User flags
These attributes will be replayed from SQL database Attributes other than these point attributes will be replayed from project configured data.
Not configured for logging Current value.
Currently configured value
  • Some point attributes cannot be logged to the DATA_LOG table. Generally speaking, these attributes are set at configuration time only and don’t change over time.
The currently configured value for these attributes will be displayed in DGR mode.
  • The only attributes logged to Historian are POINT_ID and TIMESTAMP. DGR displays the currently configured value for all other attributes associated with  points that are logged to Historian.