RSView Supervisory Edition Installation Guide

Step 9—Create graphic displays, trends, and
alarm summaries
Create graphic displays that represent the process. Build the graphic
displays in a variety of ways:
• Use the RSView drawing tools to create graphic objects and text.
You can create simple objects such as ellipses and rectangles, or
create more complex objects such as trends and alarm summaries.
You can also embed ActiveX objects.
• Drag and drop ready-made objects from the RSView libraries into
a display.
• Import objects or entire images that have already been created in
other drawing packages such as CorelDRAW.
• Import graphic information using the Graphics Import Export
Wizard.
• Create graphic displays, trends, and alarm summaries in the Graphic
Display editor.
For details, see Chapter 16, Creating graphic displays.
Step 10—Set up logging
Set up activity, alarm, and data logging to have a record of what is
happening when the system is running.
Set up activity logging in the Diagnostics Setup editor. Set up alarm
logging in the Alarm Log Setup editor. Set up data logging in the Data
Log Models editor.
All logged information is stored in a proprietary format for faster
performance, but can be exported to an ODBC-compliant database
while online, and then viewed with any ODBC-compliant reporting or
analysis software, such as Microsoft Excel, or Seagate Crystal Reports.
For data logging, you can also use the ODBC storage format to store
data directly in an ODBC-compliant database.
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