In
PI Manual Logger when I have a
blank screen I have the option of using any of the menu options or going
back to the "getting started" window. For this I'll select
"tours" and "new tour". I have two
options here; to do this with the wizard or without. For now I'll do
it with the wizard. So
I'm entering a name of the tour and optional
description.
Now I'm presented with permissions for the
tour. Here is a full permission group
as detailed here--this is who can delete, add
PI tags and modify this tour. So I'll pick my admins
group and then I have the data
entry only group and I'll pick my data entry group.
Again these are done based on groups not
users.
Next I'm able to pick my PI tags.
From here once I click on "add" I'll get the familiar PI
tag search. I'll search for my
tags,
and select them.
I can add more tags at a later time.
Now I click on "finish" and I'm complete.
What I'm presented here is still a data
configuration or tour configuration screen.
On the left I see general information about the
tour--that's what I've already entered through the wizard such as the
name, the access groups--and then there are some other
things as well that I wasn't presented as options such as
tour scheduling or notes for the tour.
Here in the center I see the individual tag configuration
--for this we are looking at one of my tags; the discharge
valve tag. So there are options based on the
tag and then over on the right I
see there is another way to view the tags. I see an individual
tag here, here's it's description and here is a
lists here. I notice as I move through this
list the tag name is changing
here and also the index for the list
is changing as well. To reposition the tags in the
order of the list as will be presented I simply just do a drag and
drop to rearrange. I'm
seeing some of the attributes for the tags; if I wanted to
see more attributes I could click on "all" here and I see
the full point attributes of the PI tag.
Notice I have three different
tags here, temperature--if I look at
this and look at the common attributes
this is the float 32.
So it's a simple numeric tag that we would enter.
This charge valve state in this case is a
digital tag using the digital state set
valve position. So once the user is entering this
tag information he'll be presented with digital state
choices. And then finally level;
this in an amp 32 so a simple numeric
value only. All
point tag types are available to Manual
Logger. There are some other
options from this Treeview list as well.
Notice here a PI trend--if I click on here then I'm
presented with a mini trend. These tags are new so there is
no data in them but once someone had done data
entry we could see the history of that
in this very much like ProcessBook Trend. I can do
"add trace", "revert", "zoom", etc.
Finally there are other options for
reordering using these arrow buttons instead of the drag and
drop and then there are other options for data
validation on each individual tag; these are things like
limit checking. All of these other options will be covered
in more advanced topics but for now we've completed building
our tour. All we need to do is
save, say "yes" and this is saved.
So we did this through the wizard. I'm going to
also present building a tour
just without the wizard just using this
dialog here. So we'll start over
here, go back to tours, new
tour and this time I'll click on "skip the
wizard" and I'm still presented with
the option for the entry or the
name.
And
also my access groups.
But once I say "okay" here
notice I'm in the main configuration
display. There are no tags yet in the
tour. I have the same options over here on the tour
entry. If I look I have an "add" button.
I can click on "add" and I can select one of my
tags, say "okay" and he's been added to the tour now.
You see him in the tour list here and we see we have one in the
tour list. I can do this "add" again.
I can pick multiple tags if I desire. In this case I'll
pick two and say "okay"
and notice now my list has three and I see
list here in the tag descriptions. So very
much the same as through the wizard except I add my
tags through this "add" button.
From here I'll do a save and again
that's all. I created my tour and it's ready to be used
by data entry users.