Adding proxy points to a web chart

When adding the Niagara Proxy Point to a web chart on a Supervisor, if the remote point on the controller has a history, the chart attempts to resolve the history on the Supervisor and use it to initialize the web chart. Note that in order to detect the matching history, the history must already be imported or exported from the controller to the Supervisor. And, in order for the n:history tag to be added to subscribed points, you must first enable the Persist Fetched Tags property on the Supervisor’s NiagaraNetwork.
Prerequisites:
  • Connection to a Supervisor station and a subordinate station
  • Discovered points (configured with history extensions) on the subordinate station
Perform the following steps:
  1. Open the Property Sheet view of the Supervisor’s NiagaraNetwork, and set the Persist Fetched Tags property to true.
  2. Right-click the Supervisor’s History space and click History Import Manager.
  3. In the History Import Manager view, select the discovered Histories on the subordinate station’s points that you want to import and click Add.
  4. In the Supervisor’s NiagaraNetwork under the subordinate station, double-click on the Points folder to open the Point Manager view.
  5. Select the discovered points that you want to subscribe to and click Add.
  6. Under the Supervisor Config node, open a Chart view on any component, and drag the points (or the Points Folder) onto the web chart.

The Supervisor station is now subscribed to the points on the subordinate station. When you add one of the proxy points to a web chart, the chart checks for a local enabled history extension as a child on the proxy point. If found, it uses the local history extension’s HistoryConfig property to determine the history to plot in the chart. If not found, it uses a computed n:history tag value if the history exists on the Supervisor.

When you drag a points folder (of proxy points) onto a web chart, the chart detects the matching histories and the n:history tags which were added to the points when imported or exported to the Supervisor and is able to resolve the histories and initialize the web chart.

 NOTE: Regarding adding a proxy point to a chart on the Supervisor, the history data is still imported or exported by a corresponding history import/export descriptor that is configured separately. Also, that import/export descriptor controls how frequently the history data is updated on the Supervisor
 NOTE: The n:history tag is an implied tag that is also added to local control points if they have an active history extension child.  The tag is not limited only to Niagara proxy points on a Supervisor.