New to this forum, not a developer but an engineer user of our ignition software.
I have a few charts I created and saved for various processes in our plant. Normally to add a point to the chart, I would right click a point on the screen and click "Trend - Combined" and it would combine the point on to the current graphing window I am using. However, if I am on a chart that I loaded from a pre-saved chart, when I click "Trend - Combined" it instead opens a new graphing window in addition to my already loaded trend. I want to be able to add other points to my pre-loaded graphs, just by using trend combined.
Does anyone have any familiarity with this? This seems like it would be default functionality, is there anyway I can change this? Using the tag browser tree is far more cumbersome than just adding a point with trend-combined.
In addition, is there any way to be able to search the tag browser as opposed to using the tree format? It would be so much easier to be able to type the tag.
Sorry if this is not the right place to post this. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
This sounds like this might be some custom functionality added by whoever originally created your interface. If that is the case you'll likely have to dig into the implementation code to adjust it.
When you say "point" what exactly do you mean, a motor/device, a value display, a line on a chart?
If possible, are you able to provide some screenshots showing the interaction? (I understand that you may not be able to)
Do you what chart component is being used? Is it a power chart?
This will depend on how the browser was implemented. As of 8.1.32, the tag browser component has an option for enabling a filter. If the browser is part of a power chart, then I am unsure if you can enable a filter for it.
Here is an image of a point, I mean a value on the screen. This one happens to be a digitally calculated point, but any point on the screen that is the readout of a transmitter or device. Flow, Pressure, Temperature, etc.
Right clicking a point gives me the option to either trend it in isolation, or trend - combined with the current graphing window. But if I have started from a pre-loaded chart
I'm not sure I would go so far as to say poor implementation, but perhaps unexpected behavior. This is definitely a custom implementation. I would contact your integrator to see if they can help you out.
Otherwise you're going to need to dig through what is going on when you right click on a data point.
