Browse Data Sources

Allows to browse a data source and select the properties or tags.

Procedure

  1. From the select drop-down, select a server alias and its data source to browse through the server properties and tag IDs.
    OptionDescription
    Assets / Objects This is the asset model configured in the system. You can browse through the asset hierarchy, and add properties to the trend chart from any hierarchy level. You can add or remove data variables of the asset from the trend chart.
    Historian The Historian servers configured in the system. You can browse through the servers for tags that you want to add to the widgets.
    Proficy iFIX The iFIX servers configured in the system. You can browse through the servers for tags that you want to add to the widgets.
    Proficy Cimplicity The Cimplicity servers configured in the system. You can browse through the servers for tags that you want to add to the widgets.
    OPC UA The OPC UA servers configured in the system. You can browse through the servers for tags that you want to add to the widgets.
    A list of server nodes appear in a tree structure. For the Historian data source, a list of native tags from the datasource appear.
  2. Expand the tree structure and select the check box for the value tags to pull data from the data source.
  3. For Historian, you can search and select from the list of native tags.
  4. Save or close the screen.

Results

The selected properties or tags are applied.