The Search Configuration gives you
a certain number of options that you can use.
If we go into Layout and select
Configuration next to Search,
we see that all the standard
Elements that we see in our Search Window have checkmarks
next to them. We can alter this
so you could see the Preview Window at the bottom. We can alter this
by either un-checking items, so if I do not want to see Time
Range, I can uncheck that. If I want
to see my Filter, I can check
that. And all these control what you are going to see
on the Batch Search Element
in the Batch Group when it's in the -- when it's on the Display.
So, you have control all the way from
selecting None, which does not make a lot of
sense, to selecting All, which
may make sense. And so, you can customize this
to whatever format, whatever
Elements that you want to use in your display.
You have control over what
Results are displayed in your Results Column
in ProcessBook. We have got the Results Column.
You can go under Layout and click Configure
next to Results, and
on the right are all of the
Options, all of the Configurations that are
selected by Default, so if for some reason
you did not want to see PI Server, you
could remove that, or Procedure, you could remove that.
And you are left with Batch ID, Visible Anchor, Start
Time, End Time, Product and Unit Name. So, you are
controlling the -- what columns you are seeing
in your, in your Batch
Display. You can also show Data Columns, so
if you wanted to see a Tag or an Alias or an
Expression or anything like that, you could
add those to the, to the Element as well. So,
there's a Preview Window down at the bottom
that you can see how it's going to look. So, you have
complete over the Results Panel
as it's displayed on your Batch Group.
To configure your Gantt Charts, you simply
open up your Batch Definition and select
Configure next to Gantt, and
you have control over everything from the Title
down to the Color of all of the
Sections. You can choose what to display -- whether you are
going to display the Title or whether you are going to display the Grids.
And, you can control whether you want
people to align when they are zooming
in on Trends -- we will see that a little bit later -- and, which
Labels you want to show them. So, if you want to show
the PI Batch Label, you can show that. If you
uncheck that then your Labels, your Batch Level will
be blank. You also have control over the Unit and SubBatch
Level, and what you want to show there. Now, by default,
we are going to show the ID Numbers and the Names of the SubBatch,
but you can show anything you want. You can show
Product Name for the UnitBatch. You can show the
Procedure. So, there's lots of different options you have
on your Gantt Chart on what to show.
You do not have to necessarily show ID Number
all the time. Also,
there's a Legend here that we want to show you for the Gantt
Chart. You can tell what Level you are evaluating by looking
at the hash marks in the upper right-hand corner of each
Gantt Bar. If it's got four
lines, you are looking at the PIBatch Level. Three hash marks
indicate UnitBatch Level. Two
hash marks indicate the highest SubBatch Level.
And then one and none indicate the second and
subsequent Levels of the SubBatch in the Gantt
Chart. If you are familiar with ProcessBook,
then using the BatchView Add-in will be very
easy. You simply select the Batch Icon
in the Toolbar or Batch Group from the Draw Menu,
draw a large area on your screen,
and the Configuration Window will appear. It's
very similar to the way that Trends are drawn.
I will make sure I am in Build Mode. I will select Draw
Batch Group, and I will draw
a large box on my screen
to place my Batch Group. And I get the
Batch Definition Window. Now,
remember that when you are in Run Mode or Build Mode,
the -- ProcessBook will behave a little bit
differently. If you want to make, make changes
to your Batch Group that are permanent, make sure that you are in
Build Mode, and make sure that you Save.
So, in the Main Window, we have
a Main Tab, a Layout Tab, and the Settings Tab. And the Main
Tab has the same Search Criteria
that we saw in our BatchView Quick
Search. I am going to use my
example that we used
earlier. I am going to search for all of my
UnitBatches on my Server that were
active in the last four hours
for my Digester #1. So, I will
click Search. And you can see that I have got
four results here. And the bottom of
the screen, the Available Aliases, lit up for me and
you can see that I have a Pressure and a Temperature Alias
available in this part of this UnitBatch.
Now, I want to see my Temperature Aliases,
so I will click Add Alias, and that will add it
to the particular selected Tag
Aliases Section here.
Now, you want to make sure you visit the Layout Tab before you
continue because, as you will see,
in the Layout Tab, only the Gantt Chart
is selected. You will not get a
Search or Results Panel unless you
Select those in the Layout Tab. You will, however,
get a Trend for every Alias you selected on the earlier
Panel. As long as I select all four,
I will get all four of the Batch
Group Sections here. You can see they light up as I mouse over
them. And, if I wanted to
configure any one of them in a special configuration
way, I, I could click any of the Configuration Buttons
to do that as well. Also, in the
Settings Tab, you can set things like
how the Start Times are displayed, your
Plot Labels, your Start Times, your End Times,
Start as Batch Start, End as Batch End, things like that. You can
set the color schemes. There's different color
schemes that you can use. And
you can choose when, when things are
updated. We will see Custom Name Sets a little bit later.
So, once I get all my Selections built,
I can click OK, and
what I will get on the screen is a Batch Group that will be drawn
with my Batch Search in the upper left,
my Results in the lower left,
my Gantt Chart and my Temperature
Trend off to the right.