Exercise 16 Creating Data Logs and Trends

for a FactoryTalk View ME

Application

Required Setup
The exercise requires the following items. See the General Setup for
more details.
❑ CompactLogix™ and PanelView™ Plus Workstation
❑ Network connection between computer and controller
❑ Software:
❑ FactoryTalk® View ME
❑ RSLinx® Enterprise
❑ RSLinx Classic
❑ Studio 5000 Logix Designer® (for preloading .ACD files)
❑ The following file(s):
❑ CLT_9701_A1.APA
❑ CCV204_BottleProgram.ACD

Resource: Job Aid

For help performing steps in the exercise(s), see the job aid(s):
• FactoryTalk View ME and PanelView Plus Procedures Guide

Exercise A
Objectives
In this exercise, you will practice how to:
• Create data logs for a FactoryTalk View ME application
• Create trends for a FactoryTalk View ME application
Situation
You have been asked to record key data from the bottling process.
To do this, you will create a data log and build a trend that displays
the data.

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Practice
It's your turn to try it:
1. Open Windows Explorer and create a folder at the root of your
hard drive called Logs.

IMPORTANT
If your hard drive is in the default location, your path to the folder
should be C:\Logs. The letter used for your hard drive may vary
(e.g., D:, X:, etc.).
2. When you have finished creating your new folder, close
Windows Explorer.
3. If you already created a bottling line application, continue
working with that application; otherwise restore the
CLT_9701_A1.APA file.

IMPORTANT
Before using this file, you must verify that the RSLinx Enterprise
communications setup has been updated.

4. Create a new data log that exhibits the following features:

• Type a description of: Bottling line data
• Allow up to 5,000 data points
• Data log saved to the Logs folder you created in Step 1
• Periodic data logging every 2 seconds
• The following tags are included in the data log:
- system\Second
- Bottle_Message
- Bottle_Count

IMPORTANT
The Bottle_Message and Bottle_Count tags are located in your
Filling program.

5. Save the data log as Bottles.

6. Activate the Bottles data log so that it begins recording data
when your application starts up.
7. Change the initial graphic to Login in the Startup editor.
8. Open the Trend graphic display.
9. Copy the trend object, Trend Controls buttons, and Y Scale
buttons from the Trends library and paste them into your
graphic display.
10. Resize the objects if desired to better fit the Trend graphic
display.
11. Change the background color of the trend object to black and
change the color of the grid lines to white.

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12. Delete any existing tags associated with the trend when it was
imported from the library.
13. Assign the Bottle_Count tag to Pen 1, the Bottle_Message tag
to Pen 3, and the system/Second tag to Pen 5.
14. Configure the pens to exhibit the following properties:
• The width of each pen is set to 3.
• The Link Data feature is enabled for the system/Second tag.
• The maximum values for the remaining tags are set to 10.
• The minimum values for the remaining tags are set to 0.
• A unique marker is enabled for each pen.
15. Assign the Bottles data log to the trend.
16. Buffer 100 points of data for each pen.
17. Increase the time span for the horizontal axis to 30 seconds.
18. Modify the trend so that data is refreshed every second.
19. Save and close the Trend graphic display.
20. Test the application by using FactoryTalk View Studio software
or the PanelView Plus 7 terminal.
21. Log in to your application using the following settings:
• User ID: LAURA
• Password: maint
22. From the Main Menu, navigate to the Maintenance graphic
display.
23. Verify that the Motor Override Control button is turned off.
24. Return to the Main Menu and navigate to the Trend display.
25. View the trend you have created. How is the trend behaving?

26. Return to the Main Menu and then navigate to the Conveyor
graphic display.
27. Set the number of bottles being filled to five and start the
conveyor motor.
28. Using the button on the Conveyor graphic display, immediately
go to the Trend graphic display.
IMPORTANT
Be sure to exit the Conveyor graphic display while the bottles are
still filling.

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29. View the graphic display again. How has the trend changed?

30. When you have finished, exit the test application or return to
your FactoryTalk View Studio software.
31. Minimize or close your FactoryTalk View application.

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Answers: Exercise A
Check your work:
4. If you have created the data log as instructed, the tabs in the
Data Log Models dialog box should appear similar to the
following graphics:
Setup Tab Log Triggers Tab

Paths Tab Tags in Model Tab

7. If you activated the data log and changed your initial graphic to
Login, your Startup editor should look similar to the following
graphic:

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9. If you copied the Trend graphic object, Trend Control, and

Y Scale buttons, your graphic display should look similar to the
following graphic:

11. If you changed the background color and the grid lines as
instructed, the Trend Object Properties dialog box should look
similar to the following graphics:

From Display Tab From X-Axis Tab From Y-Axis Tab

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13. If you have completed this step as instructed, the Connections

tab of the Trend Object Properties dialog box should appear
similar to the following graphic:

15. If you have assigned the data log to the trend as instructed, the
Pens tab of the Trend Object Properties dialog box should
appear similar to the following graphic:

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16. If you have configured the buffer as instructed, the Display tab
of the Trend Object Properties dialog box should appear similar
to the following graphic:

17. If you have increased the time span as instructed, the X‐Axis tab
of the Trend Object Properties dialog box should appear similar
to the following graphic:

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18. If you have modified the data refresh rate as instructed, the
General tab of the Trend Object Properties dialog box should
appear similar to the following graphic:

25. The white pen increases from 0 to 10 and then returns to zero;
the blue pen remains at a constant value of 0; and the red pen
remains at a constant value of 1.
Your runtime trend should appear similar to the following
graphic:

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29. The white continues its same pattern. The blue pen increases in
a steplike manner, while the red pen increases and then drops
to 1 in a cyclical pattern. After five cycles, the red pen returns to
1 and the blue pen returns to 0.
Your runtime trend should appear similar to the following
graphic:

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