You can set some of the visual aspects
to the Batch Group
like color schemes in the Settings
Tab. We have categorized Classic and
Classic Anchored color schemes. I will show you those in a few moments.
You can also select when to update the Batch
Query. The Default is when display updates, similar
to the ProcessBook Trend, or you can use
update only when the display loads, or not to
use the Query Function. You can also elect,
whether to Show New Results or Hidden Results as
time marches on. So as you get new Batches start up,
whether to show them or not. I will go into
ProcessBook, and I have got a Batch Group here.
And, if I want to change the color scheme for this
particular, this particular Batch Group,
I simply double-click on it and I go into
the Settings Tab. Here's where all those options are set.
And you will see the Color Schemes. There are three. Categorized
means that the Anchored Batch is always yellow.
The Completed Batches are always colored blue.
And the Running Batches are always colored green. And
the most recently completed
is always marked in red. That is the Standard Color Scheme
for BatchView. You can go to an Anchored
Classic View which has all of our traces
as they are Classic Colors as in ProcessBook
with the Anchored Batch always in yellow.
Or, you can simply turn off all
semblance of Batch Color Scheme and go back to the PI
ProcessBook Classic Trace Colors.
That's with this Scheme, Classic. Now, this'll change the
color scheme for this particular Batch Group.
But if I wanted to change it for all of my Batch
Groups for the future, I would go into Tools and Preferences
and select PI BatchView. If
I change the Color Preferences
here, then -- or any of the,
any of the Configuration Settings
for any of my four items in my Batch Group, these will
change these settings
for the future. So, every Batch Group that you build will have these
new settings. So, just remember, if you want to change your Global Preferences,
you go to Tools and Preferences in ProcessBook
and select BatchView.
BatchView has the ability to
use what are called Custom Name Sets.
Custom Name Sets are a way in
which you can modify the naming conventions for
each item in the batch database. And these definitions
can be applied per Batch Group or per
System, or even per user. There's a couple
step process involved in this. The first step is to define
the naming convention in the Batch
Custom Name Editor. It's in a plug-in to the SMT.
And then we apply that in the BatchView
Component. And here's an example where
we have an Oil and Gas example
where the Batch ID is converted to a
Heading called Blend Number. The
Product is renamed Grade,
and the
Procedure is the Season. So, the Headings
are labeled that way, and
you can see that the
PI UnitBatches have been renamed
List of Blends. So, you do not select
from PIUnitBatch. You select from List of Blends.
And then the Batch ID Numbers are Blend Numbers.
Here's an example of a Pulp and Paper Example
where the Batch ID is the Jumbo Number and the
UnitBatches are Jumbos. So you can see that they are searching
for List of Jumbos. This naming convention
affects all the Labels that the
users see. So,
and you can set these options
by Enabling or Disabling this
for using this
Ba...CustomNamesSettings executable.
It's in the Program Files, PIPC, Batch Folder.
And, you could even, you could even set a
default for this computer if you wanted to change the
default naming convention. Let's look at a,
a really quick example of this. I am going to go into Batch
Custom Names, and let's say I want to create a Custom
Name Set here for my paper mill, and
I am just going to call this Custom Name Set Paper Mill.
And, without getting too detailed
here, let's call the, let's call the Batch
ID Number,
oh, I do not know, Baskins Lot No.
And then, the Unit Batches would
then be Lot
Numbers. And I will save that.
And then I will go into my ProcessBook Display
and I will create a new Batch Group really quickly.
And, let's
say I want to search my
digester. So I will do a quick Digester Search, and you can see that
I have Batch ID is what I am
searching on. Now if I go to Settings and I change
the Custom Name Set to Paper Mill,
you will notice that
when I go back into my Main, I have
got Baskins Log Number here. So, I
changed the Heading
by simply using a Custom Name Set, and all that's done
using the PI System Manager Tools,
Batch Custom Names, and then applying those
within ProcessBook.