Easy Chart - Pen Names and Groups
This section assumes that tags and Tag History have been configured
To learn more, go to the Tag and Set up Tags to Log pages.
The examples below use OPC tags from the Generic Simulator driver, but Memory, Expression, and Query tags could be used instead.
You can organize pens on the Easy Chart by providing custom names and groups for each pen. By default, when you drag tags from the Tag Browser on to the Easy Chart component, the pen name is the same as name as the tag name. Also by default, all pens are placed into a single group called ‘Pens.’
You may want to customize pen names and organize pens into different groups to make it easier for the operator. You can do this in the Customizer. Right click on the Easy Chart component and scroll down to Customizers > Easy Chart Customizer.
On the Pens tab, you can edit each of the individual pens and give them a different name as well as put them inside a different group.
Click the Edit icon and rename the first tag from ‘Ramp0’ to ‘R 0’ as shown in the following example. At the bottom of the Edit Pen window, under Group Name, create a new group called ‘Ramps.’ If other groups exist, you can select one from the dropdown list. In this example, this is the first group to be created, so simply type ‘Ramps’ and press OK.
Select the second pen and click the Edit icon. Rename ‘Ramp1’ to ‘R 1’ and put it under the ‘Ramps’ group by selecting it from the dropdown list, and press OK.
Let’s do the same for the last Ramp pen. Click the Edit icon and rename ‘Ramp2’ to ‘R 2’ and put it under the ‘Ramps’ group, and click OK.
For the Sine names, keep the names the same and create a new group. Select and Edit the fourth pen. Create a new Group Name and call it ‘Sines,’ and press OK.
Edit the remaining Sine pens and put each Sine pen into the ‘Sines’ group using the dropdown list, and press OK.
Now that you customized the Name and the Group for each of the pens, you can see under the Pens tab all your updates in one view. You can also change the pen and group names on this view by selecting the pen you want to update and editing the Name and/or the Group. It’s a faster way to edit the Name and Group then having to go to the Edit icon for each pen. Once all your edits are complete, click OK.
Now you see all the pen names that the operators will see on the Easy Chart as well as the 2 new groups for your pens: ‘Ramps’ and ‘Sines.’
