Let me take you for a Tour
and show you how these features are incorporated
into the User Interface.
This is the Welcome Window for
PI Manual Logger.
If we go to
Manage Tours and open our Tour
Experiment Results,
we
can see the Tour Info
here on the left pane.
In this pane
we can do things like
scheduling our Tour.
By clicking on Set,
we can open the
Scheduling Window and schedule
the frequency of our Tour, which can
be done hourly or at any other
desired frequency.
The tags
for which I am collecting information
can have independent frequencies.
For instance, if I am collecting
Vibration Data for a Pump
and Temperature Data for the same, same
Pump, those two tags
can have different frequencies. I can
collect Vibration Data every six hours
and Temperature Data every 12 hours.
So I can set the frequency of each
tags so that I only collect the Temperature
Data for every other Tour.
Under Tour Options,
I can select options such
as requiring the
approval of the data.
In this case, a group can collect
the data, and a different group can
receive and approve the data that was collected.
I can uncheck
these options so that the data
collectors cannot send data to the PI Server
until that data has been approved.
By doing so, I can
establish a workflow and
data approval for my Tours.
Manual Logger can also validate the data
that is being collected
by establishing lower
and upper limits
on the data that is being collected.
In
addition to that, I can establish
actions that are required if those limits
are exceeded. Some of the required
actions may include
a required signature
or a required comment
on the limit that was exceeded.
In addition to the data
and the values that I enter, I can also enter
comments concerning the data
that I am collecting.
Manual Logger also includes
a Message Log that
includes information on all of the data
that was changed since the Tour was
last performed.
I can
also
view Tag
History and Trending in Manual Log
for all of the tags for which I am collecting
data for.
I can also
organize my tags. In this case, the Tour only
contains one tag, but
if there were several, I could create
different groups
[typing]
under which
my tags could, could be organized.
Now, with these different groups,
I can move my tags into each one of these groups
or any one of them.