Hello,
My company is migrating from AB Vantage Point to ignition. Does someone know a way to bring the historical data into ignition in order for us not to lose the data from previous years?
Thank you!
There is no out of the box way that I am aware of.
You will likely have to build out your tag structure in Ignition first, then script something to back-fill historical data using system.tag.storeTagHistory.
You will have to create a map of Vantage Point tags to their equivalent Ignition tags, and reference that when pulling data from vantage point and importing it into Ignition, to make sure the data goes to the expected tag.
You will likely run into the fact that your ignition tag structure will look very different from your Vantage Point tag structure.
What are you using for a data collector in Vantage Point, a file or an actual DB (MSSQL, Postgres)? If using the native file, you will likely need to export it into a CSV so Ignition can parse it and insert it into the history system.
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