User Archives

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 Objectives

- Creating a User Archive

- Creating a Table View

- Creating a Form View

- Accessing a User Archive

- Data Transfer to a Controller

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 User Archives

Advantages of user archives for:

• Recipes
• Batch data
• Production data
• Data storage for data from the controller
• Tool management
•
•
Access to user archives through:
• Table window
• Internal functions
• API functions (described in the WinCC Help, among others)
• ODBC / SQL
• MS Query
• Communication with the controller using tags
• Communication with the controller using raw data

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 WinCC Help (System)
WinCC Help

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 Creating a User Archive
Toggle for Table window or Wizard enabling

Data window
Navigation window

Table window for

editing online data
records

Archive name: H1_Heating

H1
_Heater

_Actual

_Setpoint

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 Exporting/Importing a User Archive

Archive
Fields

Note:
You can copy Fields and
Archives with Ctrl+C, and
insert them with Ctrl+V

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 Table View of the User Archive Control
Switchover Read and Write
Create new Time Base
Change tags
record
current field Import/Export
Delete archives (.CSV) Define sort Print
record Scroll in table condition
Define filter
window
condition
Help

Floor/Room

Actual room temp.

Setpoint room temp.
LastUser

Last data record

change

Note: The ID number is an internal reference of the database. The numbering does
not have to be consecutive. It should not be used for selections.

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 Form View of the User Archive Control

Operation outside of the Control

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 Communication with the Controller using Tags,
Operator Controlled

Runtime

Select

Interface tags

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 Communication with the Controller using Tags,
PLC Controlled
Runtime

Control tags Interface tags

Are supplied by the controller

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 Sort

Runtime

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 Filter Condition

Runtime

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 Creating Views

Shortcut menu

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 Exercise 1: Creating an Archive

User Archive Editor

• Creating an Archive

• Creating Archive Fields

• Editing Table Windows

Archive fields

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 Exercise 1: Integrating a Control

You can activate the editing mode for the form window by
pressing Ctrl+double-click!

Form window call

You can change the column width after you press Ctrl+double-click.

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 Exercise 1: Setting Control Parameters

Double-click

Note: Every time you make a change to the archive structure, you have to reselect the source
(archive).

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 Exercise 2: Form View
• Expanding the exercise picture with the form view of the
User Archive- Table Element

Switch over

Shortcut menu

Configuration

Runtime

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 Exercise 3: A Second User Archive
• Expanding the exercise picture

Views Archives

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 Exercise 4: Views of the Two Databases
• Expanding the exercise picture

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 Exercise 4: Integrating a Control

Double-click
for views

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