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Jef Vanlaer
Community Manager
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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Jef Vanlaer
Community Manager
itingliu12
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itingliu12Navigator
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Upload PDF or image directly from PC

I came across the issue of wanting to add a PDF or image to Trendminer’s DashHub. However, it needs to go through the tedious process of uploading to the website and then enabling the embedded link to get the image displayed. Is there a way to upload a PDF or image directly from the PC without using the embedding process?

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eddieh
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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
Community Manager
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Stefan.TubbenhauerExplorer
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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
Community Manager
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GeirsExplorer
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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
Community Manager
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nikolajdhNavigator
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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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Roger PalmenNavigator
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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
Employee
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Nooij01Explorer
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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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Natasha Neese
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Jacob GoodwinExplorer
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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
Community Manager
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JGamboeExplorer
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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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cmillet37Explorer
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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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jlindseyExplorer
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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
Community Manager
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Jens TheuerkaufNavigator
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How Can I Apply Stronger Aggregation for Long-Term?

I want to trend a highly fluctuating tag over a period of 2 - 3 years to find a possible Trend below. Aggregation over 24 h ) is not sufficient. How can I do do stronger  aggregated trending?   

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Jef Vanlaer
Community Manager
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LDKExplorer
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Built-in steam tables

Does Trendminer have build-in steam tables or steam data that are available to use, e.g. to show saturation temperature based on a steam pressure tag?

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Jef Vanlaer
Community Manager
Jef Vanlaer
Community Manager
Jef VanlaerCommunity Manager
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How to increase the decimals after the comma on the Y axis?

We just received the above question from one of our TrendMiner users and as I figured the answer could be relevant to many of you, I thought I’d add it to the Community, so here we go…When you click on a tag in the list of active tags, you will see a toggle for Accuracy. By default it is on AUTO, but you can switch it on to set your own preferred accuracy.If set to 0.001, for example, you will have 3 digits after the comma. 0.00001 will give you 5 digits.  More context on the default behavior and the Accuracy setting can be found in our user guide via this link.

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Jef Vanlaer
Community Manager
yracette
Innovator
yracette
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How to calculate a daily average of a signal with a single result per day?

I have a temperature signal that updates every minute or so and I want to derive the daily average of the signal.Trendminer average aggregation gives me a rolling average at each timestamp. What I am after, in this case is a single value per day that represents the average from midnight to midnight the next day. When plotted, this result would show a step change at midnight every day.This would be the equivalent of a PI-Datalink average calculation over a given time period with a 1 day (1d) time interval)Is this feasible? 

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Natasha Neese
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Matt01Explorer
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Edge Manager

Where \ How can I access Edge Manager?

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GeertExplorer
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How do I find out who is the author of a formula/aggregation etc?

In trendminer, I can see, select and display formula’s created by other people, although they are not shared explicitly to me:you can search the tag and display them  in trendhub, but you cannot find the through search saved formula’s maybe they are part of a shared dashboard… idkProblem is: some formula’s do not work, need editing, or I just want to know what they do:but I dont know who to contact… because it doesn’t appear to show who created the formula…How do I find out? [2023.R4.0-12]

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Jef Vanlaer
Community Manager
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vally182Explorer
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Can I add units (e.g., kg) to a formula tag?

I’ve made a new tag from a value since the output was in “TONS”. So I made one that converted 170 TON into 170000 kg. Only the kg’s isn’t showing at the end. It’s just the number. Is there maybe a way where you can add the “kg” at the end of a converted number?

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lmccNavigator
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Dashhub Global timeframe and current value tiles

I have a Dashhub dashboard with current view tiles. I recently remembered the Global Timeframe selection and was hoping that would help with usability of my dashboard. However, when I change the timeframe the current value tiles do not change. Is this expected behavior?

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Jef Vanlaer
Community Manager
EdwardB
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EdwardBNavigator
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Plant Integration API Console moving to Swagger hc-4.103.5

Just updated our systems including plant integration, version hc-4.103.5 has a banner giving a notification than “The Plant Integrations API Console is being deprecated in favor of Swagger.” I am unable to find any information on what this means going forward, is a change coming down the pipeline?

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Stijn Agten
Employee
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Emil BarothiInnovator
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Enable Comments in Formula Editor

When using complex formulas, it would be helpful to insert comments. This would assist colleagues in understanding the thought process or logic, whether they are revisiting a formula they created themselves or trying to comprehend a shared formula from another colleague.  

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Tim Haselaars
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Emil BarothiInnovator
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Ability to sort work items

In the older versions of TrendMiner one could sort the work items within the Work Organizer based on each column. Now one can perform this sorting only on the “name” and “last time used” columns. Why?I especially sort by creator / owner and by type when I am searching for shared work items and by not having this flexibility it takes a lot of time and scrolling to find the desired work items.

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Employee
yracette
Innovator
yracette
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Calculating the duration of a condition

I know that I can perform a Value-Based search for a condition and analyze search results to get the duration of any given event. For example, if I want to know for how long a process temperature  was below 120’ over the last month, the search results will tell me that one of the durations was 5 days, others may be 5 minutes and so on. i also know that I can create context items and use a context view to show the duration and even apply conditional formatting on the durationHowever, my question is: Is there a way to save the duration in a reusable calculated tag so that I can apply some logic based on the duration e.g. increase severity of an excursion the longer the duration was. or even plot the duration on a time-based trend?

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slblum
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slblumNavigator
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Multi-Scatter Plot Bug?

When trying to utilize layers and setting date ranges for sub layers. TM will shift the date range for the data collected from each sublayer an equal amount of time for any time range changes made to the base layer. This makes it extremely difficult to use the layers function as any changes to the base layer change all of the other layers. For example, when trying to compare operating data from a previous run to a current run on the multi-scatter plot. When you update your current data to a new date range (i.e. last 7 days) the sub layers will all shift forward by the same amount of time resulting in you having to redo every sub layer every time you want to update the scatter plot.This seems like a bug and not the intended functionality of layers in the multi-scatter. Is there a way around this?

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