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Overview

The Chart Macro. Create one or more interactive trends with different y-axes, scales, time ranges and layouts.

To insert a chart select "Chart" from the insert menu. Below are some starting hints. Don't forget to try out both left and right mouse clicks to see what's there.

You can add tags by either dragging and dropping them from elsewhere, for example either from search results or from the Basket or by manually adding them via the "Add Tags" option in the settings menu. Use the lock icon to lock and unlock the trend area so you can zoom and scroll axis (time and magnitude).

Have a look at the other configuration options in the settings button. Click on the arrow at the bottom to view the detailed legend where you can change series colours and axes and change the data and plot types.

The handle at the bottom of the trend lets you change the height.

Chart Tools


	Share Whole Chart This will Create a page in the Eigen Temporary space as a as a shared page. Eigen Temporary Space
	Create Page Using Whole Chart This will Create a page in the Eigen Temporary space using a Chart Template. Eigen Temporary Space
	Seamless Mode This Takes away the Tools menu from your KPI and just displays the content on the screen.
	Edit Config This were you can view and edit the configuration code of the Trend. You can copy this code from one Trend and paste into to another to easily copy a whole Trend. Copy and paste into a text editor to perform search and replace and make changes
	Edit Tags Edit tags allows you to tag a Macro with a tag to be used in the parallel with the Template Macro Template Create a Daily Report with Internal and External reports
	Change Chart Hight Changes the hight and the width of the whole chart
	Edit Variables Variables in a Trend allow a user to enter a value in one place and have it used by all the Trends in the frame Chart Variables Behave in the same way the KPI macro can create variables. KPI Variables
	Chart Layout Allows multiple chart lay outs to be configured

Individual Trend Tools

These Tools edit individual Trends where as the tools above will edit all the charts if you have set multiple charts to be displayed


	Live Mode Live mode (ON = the data is constantly updating with time, OFF = the trend will stay displaying the time area that has been a set displaying a snap shot of data in the past.) Toggle between live view and historic view. When entering historic view (live mode off) the latest value will be shown indefinitely
	Offset Offset mode when live mode is activated is will offset the live data in the past by a set period. EG -5h would offset the data display 5 hours ago. When live mode is deactivated. Will anchor the time to a set time frame. Configurable in the Timespan settings
	Snap To Snaps the trends X axis to a time period. Valid syntax - hour, day, month , year (no numbers are valid only the words)
	Plot type Changes the trend to: Vertical plot Scatter plot (shows relationships between tags)
	Share Individual Trend This will Create a page in the Eigen Temporary space as a as a shared page. Shares this individual trend Trend Eigen Temporary Space
	Create Page using Individual Trend This will Create a page in the Eigen Temporary space using a Chart Template. Creates a page in the temporary space with this individual trend. Eigen Temporary Space
	Timespan FROM/TO - Use a set time span from a start time to a end time TIMESPAN - Use a time span of a specific time period such as one day or five hours. TIMEZONE - Allows you to view the time frame in another time zone Valid syntax is minutes hours and days with a value in front of it 1m, 1h, 1d
	Full Screen Pop UP Opens the trend in a full screen pop up window
	Trend Lock Use to lock and unlock the trend area so you can zoom and scroll axis (time and magnitude).
	Trend settings Add Tag - Allows you to add additional tags to a trend using the Tag Searcher Edit Axis - Allows you to set the max and min and step of the Y axis Edit Title - Lets you set a title and a sub title to your trend Edit Number of Points - Edit the number of points that the trend creates (interpolated used 1000 as a default) Download Trend Data - Downloads the data into CSV. This will use the setting you have configured your trend so if you set 5000 points it will download 5000 points of data Download Raw Data - Downloads the raw trend values into CSV (value, timestamp) Download As Image - Download the the current trend as an image (downloads as a PNG Image file) Allow External Changes - Allows external changes to be made no restrictions Hide Legend - Hides the bottoms legend Hide y-axis - hides the y-axis Hide x-axis - hides the x-axis Scale to Fill Height - scales Y axis depending on the range of the data to fill the trend No Label Prefixes - removes y axis prefix labels (10k - 10000)
	Individual trend Seamless Mode This Takes away the Tools menu from your Individual Trend and just displays the content on the screen
	Add a tag to the chart Either drag from an additional trend or from a KPI or form the basket. Or add a tag under setting cog "Add tag"

Editing The Plot

To edit a trend line click the arrow up to bring up the trend configure


	Coloured square Allows you to change the colour of the trend line. Change the weight of the line Change the style of the trend line
	Trend Statistics Three Dots next to Name Reveal the trend statistics Cycle thought pre second/minute/hour/day by clicking on TIP - To increase the accuracy, Increasing the number of points to be calculated over To do this Follow the two simple steps: Step 1 - Trend Settings Step 2 - Edit Number of Points
	Tag Name Click on the tag to remove it from the trend view Right Click for further options (see below)
	Meta Data Tag Description As default this is set by the Tag Can be changed by right clicking and selecting edit (see below)
	Meta Data tag Units As default this is set by the Tag Can be changed by right clicking and selecting edit (see below)
	Number of Points of Trend IF the trend data type is raw this will show how many data points are on trend Use setting cog to edit the number of points (see above)
	Format click and cycling thought formats - auto, normal, scientific
	Axis Settings left 0, left 1, left 2 Right 0, Right 1, Right 2 Moves the trend onto different axis. Trend multiple tags using different axis for each category of data Use the icons on the right to configure different views
	Data Type Click and cycle through - Interpolated, Raw, Auto
	Plot Type Click and cycle through - smooth, stepped before, stepped after
	End Date any, custom: Any - Means it runs with time if live mode or to the end of the timespan set Custom - Allows you to choose and set an end date for a trend
	Delete Removes the Trend from the chart

Right Clicking On The Tag Name


Edit	Allows you to edit the trend. Change the name that is displayed in the X axis and edit its description and units
Edit Calc	Opens up the calculation editor if trending a calculation
Common Menu	Brings up the common menu for its parent asset of the tag
Add to Basket	Adds the trend to the basket
Add alias	The tag Alias is a way of linking a tag or a calculation to an alias that is searchable in the search macro and can be used with in all the Eigen Macros. Tag Aliases
Sunburst	This will create a sunburst Plot of the asset related to this tag. Sunburst Component
Trend	Opens a full screen pop up of the that individual trend thats been selected
add Trend AVG	Plots a trend that shows the average in the past 10 minutes SLIDINGAGG(Demo-influxdb/DEMO_02FI201.PV,AVG,10m)
Add Trend MIN	Plots a trend that shows the Minimum in the past 10 minutes (SLIDINGAGG(Demo-influxdb/DEMO_02FI201.PV,MIN,10m)
Add Trend MAX	Plots a trend that shows the Maximum in the past 10 minutes (SLIDINGAGG(Demo-influxdb/DEMO_02FI201.PV,MAX,10m)
Add Trend STDDEV	Plots a trend that shows the Standard Deveration in the past 10 minutes (SLIDINGAGG(Demo-influxdb/DEMO_02FI201.PV,STDDEV,10m)
Copy to Local Trend
Remove Trend	Removes trend from chart
Edit Limits	Allows you to edit or create new limit alerts for this tag or calculation User Limits
Edit Labels

Right Clicking On The Trend Line


Add Tag	Add another trend to the chart
Add Marker	Adds a marker to the chart at the time stamp your curser was at
Add all to basket	Adds all the trends on this chart into the basket Eigen Basket
edit axes	Edit Axis Allows you to set the max and min and step of the Y axis
Edit Title	Allows you to add a title and a sub title
Download Trend Data	Download Trend Data - Downloads the data into CSV. This will use the setting you have configured your trend so if you set 5000 points it will download 5000 points of data
Download Raw Data	Download Raw Data Downloads the raw trend values into CSV (value, timestamp)
Download as Image	Download As Image Download the the current trend as an image (downloads as a PNG Image file)