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Jef Vanlaer
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Jef VanlaerCommunity Manager
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How to ask a question?

Do you have a TrendMiner question? Then the Community Category Questions & Answers is the right place to be. Here, you can ask your question to be answered by other TrendMiner users or our TrendMiner experts.How to ask a question?Make sure you are registered and logged into the Community. Create your account or log in via the LOGIN button top right or the links in the previous sentence.  Create a new topic using the CREATE NEW TOPIC button top right or this link. Pick Question as the topic type. Provide a good title and description for your question. Make sure to add enough detail, so others will understand the question. If possible, add a screenshot. Hit the CREATE button to post your question.Has your question been answered?If your question has been answered, make sure to mark the best answer. This will help other TrendMiner users with similar questions in the future.Other resourcesOur TrendMiner user guide provides a lot of information on the functionality available to end-users

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Downtime Dashboard

I was able to follow the instructions on another thread on how to create an aggregation tag for an integration over 24 hours of a binary tag for line running or not and it will give me the downtime over the last 24 hours at any specific point. Is there a way to lock in a time so that on any given day at 7 am, it will show me the downtime over the last 24 hours to the previous day at 7 am? We have a few metrics like that that we report out on over the 7 am - 7 am window and that feature would be very helpful.

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Shams92
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Shams92Innovator
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Insights about dashboard usage

Hey TrendMiner Team,we are looking for a way to check the usage of our dashboards. We would like to know which are the most frequently used dashboards and how many different users are using the dashboards daily, weekly or monthly. We are not looking for the usage of individual individual users but rather for an usage overview so that we can check adoption of the dashboards and see whether we need to push some dashboards more to our users. I am wondering which options we have to analyse the usage. Ideally, we would be able to do this ourselves within the software (ConfigHub). Best wishesSören 

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mkotheNavigator
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IFERROR function

Hi,sometimes a tag has a “bad” value.Is there an option similar to the iferror function in Excel, so that i can specify a fixed value if the tag is bad?Cheers,Marvin

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MattNavigator
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Fingerprints Duplicating or giving opposite results

I have a system with 2 fingerprint monitors active. The fingerprints are copies of each other, and one monitor checks for matches while the other checks for deviations. They have the same detection threshold. Frequently, the “match” fingerprint gives 2 match alerts (I have the monitors generate context items) a ~2 minutes apart for the same event. The length of the fingerprint is ~30 minutes and there are 3 tags involved. Other times, the “match” fingerprint and the “deviation” fingerprint will both detect and give conflicting context items. How far apart do the detection thresholds need to be to avoid this (ie can it be 84 and 85% or does it need to be more like 80 & 85%)

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Jef Vanlaer
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Alberto.MartinezJoaristiNavigator
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Time shift calculation

I am interested to know which product is being produced in chemical reactor in series… I know the current product at the exit of production, but not which product is being run in each reactor. I know the residence time in the different reactors. Is there any possibility to create a formula indicating which product is being produced in each reactor by applying a variable time shift which depends on the residence time? 

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Wouter Daniels
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benjaminNavigator
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How can I share a dashboard?

Hello, is it possible to share a monitoring dashboard with another user so they can access and modify it as well ?

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yracette
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Tags Indexing/Re-Indexing (or update)

I have  a connection to a PI system that includes, amongst other things, lab data (originating from LIMS) and PI-AF calculations. I have a PI-AF calculation that is making use of a lab tag. This week, an invalid entry was made in LIMS for the lab tag and the value was subsequently substituted/updated in PI. I recalculated/backfilled the associated PI-AF calculation and trends of both the lab and PI-AF calculation is correct/accurate in PI. The configuration of the lab tag was also  modified to force the step attribute to 1, so that values appear in a staircase format in PI.I would like these changes to be reflected in Trendminer, so I tried refreshing the index for both the lab tag and the calculation and that did not appear to do the job. Incorrect values that had been recalculated in PI are still showing in Trendminer. And the lab tag still is not represented in staircase format.What am I missing?

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yracette
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sajanExplorer
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Formula that gives Operating hours

Hello there, I am wondering if it is possible to write a formula or a way to find out, how to combine a Tag which gives out binary values (1 and 0) and the number of hours it is in operation provided in the formula a fixed starting date and current date and time? we would like to create a dashboard using pump ON/Off Tag to calculate the operating hours i.e., how long is pump in operation. Thank you so much for your inputs. Best REgards,Sajan

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Beatriz VedovatoNavigator
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How can I get a Expert License?

Hello, I need to build a tag using a custom calculation, and for that I need an Expert License. What I have to do to get one? Thanks,Beatriz.

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Jef Vanlaer
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How to create a graph of accumulated energy consumption for the month?

Hello,I need to create a graph of accumulated energy consumption for the month, how do I do this? I have the energy consumption information active, but I'm having trouble creating the accumulated energy for the entire month. Thanks

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Export Data to Excel

Is it possible to access the expoert of tags in Excel directly via Excel? Instead of going into the Trendminer and exporting a tag view, would it be possible to load the data of different tags directly into Excel via API connection and a PowerQuery in Excel?

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Jörg KunkelmoorNavigator
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Interpolated Data Scatter Plot

Is it possible to filter by data points and not display the interpolated data in a scatter plot?

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si.hu
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Creating a custom totalizer using formulas and aggregations?

We are investigating if there is a way to create a tag that would sum the totalizer and/or flow indicator? I have read through this article but not exactly the answer I am looking for: https://community.trendminer.com/functional%2Dtips%2Dtricks%2D48/optimizing%2Ddaily%2Dproduction%2Dtracking%2Dfour%2Dmethods%2Dfor%2Daccurate%2Dmonitoring%2D351

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Where to change your trendminer password?

Hi, a coworker cannot login anymore, but can also not change his password. Where can you change your password? With kind regards,Hinno

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Jens TheuerkaufNavigator
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Calculation and aggregation tags are not loaded/calculated

I perfomed several calculations and agregations in short time. Now no calculated tags is shown any more / being calculated. Processing idicator constantly running. What can I do or who can help from our internal TrendMiner team. I am only data admin. By the way, since when is the help chat not working any more?

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Jef Vanlaer
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ConfigHub - Transfer Tag

If I am logged into ConfigHub as an admin, I can view the individual user folders and the documents stored there. Can the tags be transferred from one user to another? Because if users leave the company and the created tags are still needed, this leads to problems.I would therefore assign these tags to an active user. Best regards 

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Jef Vanlaer
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Resolution on exported excel files

I really miss the possibility to export data with a high resolution. Will this be possible in the future?

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Jef Vanlaer
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Is it possible to edit font size and more?

Is there an option to change the font, font size, color, text style, etc. when exporting graphs? Specifically, when exporting graphs to use in reports, the font size is very small, making it difficult to read the axis values and labels. Using the browser zoom option does increase the font size, but it also increases the size of everything else, so it doesn’t solve the issue.

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Natasha Neese
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Datasource metrics: what do they mean?

On Confighub you can view Metrics of a datasource. But: What do these actually mean? What are reasonable values? What is the difference between the two columns? Over what time are these captured? (are these reset at some time?) Example: 

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Stijn Agten
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Can I set a 24h minimum only for a specific time range and remove peaks that aren’t actual minimums?

With the aggregation tool I set up a minimum for 24 hours of a given data set. Is it possible to set this minimum value for a certain time range. And I get peaks between my 24 hour minimum values. I don't understand where they come from and would like to remove them from my graph because these are not minimum values. 

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Is there way to assign multiple tags to Context Items?

Is there a way to assign multiple tags to a single context item? For instance tracking multiple temperature trends after a planned maintenance activity. If not, is it possible to link the visualization to a saved trend or dashboard rather than to just the specific tag that the context item is applied to?

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Jef Vanlaer
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How can I see the number of tags per plant in TrendMiner?

Hello, this is my first post.  We have just started using TrendMiner and have set up multiple plants.  I have been asked how many tags there are per plant.  I can get that number from the historians, but would like to know if there is a way to do that in TrendMiner.  I can’t seem to figure it out and was hoping that someone could help me.  Thank you.  

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Data points for second intervals

I am trying to export data based on second intervals, however I get a message saying “the data point interval should be the indexing resolution (60s) or higher? Anyone know what this means, or how I could export data points on a smaller interval? Thanks in advance.

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Stijn Agten
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How to create a resetting totalizer?

I’m working on a tag that would take a raw material feed tag and totalize it each day, resetting to 0 at midnight. I’ve tried a couple different ways and can’t get it to work. This tag is in lb/hr currently.

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Jef Vanlaer
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