Manually setting up a single history descriptor
Both import and export use history descriptors. While history discovery is available from both the Niagara History Import Manager and Niagara History Export Manager, you may create a descriptor manually. A descriptor may apply to a single history or, using tags, you can set up a descriptor
that applies to all histories in the station.
Prerequisites: You are using
Workbench connected to a
Supervisor station.
- Expand and do one of the following:
- To create an import history descriptor, double-click Histories.
- To create an export history descriptor, right-click Histories and click .
- The manager view opens.
- To create the descriptor, click New.
The first New window opens.
- To create a descriptor that applies to a single history, select
Niagara History Import or Niagara History Export based on the type of descriptor and click OKThe second New window opens.
- To create a single descriptor for a single history file, configure the
Name of the history and its History Id (station and file path) and click OK.This type of descriptor does not use the
System Tag Patterns. Instead, you configure a single
History Id. Once created, you can add system tags by editing this descriptor.
Once set up, the data transfer occurs when scheduled by the Execution Time properties.
- To manually import or export a history, right-click its import or export descriptor and click .