1. TRENDING 2.0 NEW FEATURES
Petra Mazdin, BE-ICS-FD
September

2. ENVIRONMENT OF THE TESTS
Windows machine
WinCC OA 3.15 P005
Release version
Procedure
Create a WinCC OA project
fwInstallation-8.0.5
Trending2_0 component
ETM deliveries
Test examples
Simulator files
dplist files
Test_Trending_2_0 panels
Pictures
Post install script
This presentation and documentation
Petra Mazdin, BE-ICS-FD
September

3. OVERVIEW – NEW FUNCTIONALITIES
Various enhancements
New labels
Preselection trend
Horizontal areas
Area close event & Freeze mode
Ruler popup
Different color for Y-axis
Event curves
Grid features
Visualization optimization
Custom markers
* Available
** Design suggestion (not implemented)
Petra Mazdin, BE-ICS-FD
September

4. MAJOR CHANGES
Must use a reference panel with expected shapes inside: ExampleTrend_trend.pnl
Define some global variable used in library functions (hardcoded in the trending widget)
Now features are configured as a mapping per each curve
The whole trend configuration is a mapping of mappings
Legend appearance with multiple curves: last curves are overwritten
Petra Mazdin, BE-ICS-FD
September

5. FEATURE: Various Enhancements
Limit the displayable time span per trend area
Panel: 01_Trending_areaMaximumTimeSpan.pnl
Works fine
Specify the functionality usable on the trend plot/scales (flags)
Panel: 02_Trending_AreaInteractionFlags.pnl
Issue with documented function:
areaInteractionFlag doesn’t exist
Specify an automatic timeout of a set ruler
Panel: 03_Trending_areaTouchRulerTimeout.pnl
Issue: doesn’t work, timeout event didn’t happen
Petra Mazdin, BE-ICS-FD
September

6. FEATURE: Various Enhancements
Legend curve names
Drag & drop
(Un)links curves’ scales
Works fine
Left click
Curve filling on/off
Right click
Marking selector panel
Left click: Choose a color (by default transparent)
Right click: (Un)lock the handle, both handles locked to add the marking
Petra Mazdin, BE-ICS-FD
September

7. FEATURE: New Labels Place additional information at certain positions
Can display HTML encoded content or an icon
Moves accordingly if the area is resized
Comments:
Panel: 04_Trending_NewLabels.pnl
Works fine
Petra Mazdin, BE-ICS-FD
September

8. FEATURE: Preselection trend
Opens a view port with
an overview of the main one
Comments:
Panel: 05_Trending_areaViewPort.pnl
Works fine
Style the view port: available in a css file in
config folder:
File name: stylesheet.css
Petra Mazdin, BE-ICS-FD
September

9. FEATURE: Area Close Event & Freeze Mode
Triggering another event when closing a trend with the X-button
Freeze mode stops displaying newly received values
Comments:
Panel: 06_Trending_Freeze.pnl
Issues:
Area close event unknown when closing a trend
Freeze mode:
Cannot be set in runtime
Initialize script: works fine
Petra Mazdin, BE-ICS-FD
September

10. FEATURE: Ruler popup The previous popup is a panel now
Fully customized
Enhanced functionality
Comments:
Panel: 07_Trending_Ruler.pnl
One ruler panel per project
Dependency on a library with global variables
Works fine
Petra Mazdin, BE-ICS-FD
September

11. FEATURE: Grid color Grid color Grid line type Comments:
Panel: 08_Trending_GridOptions.pnl
Works fine
Petra Mazdin, BE-ICS-FD
September

12. FEATURE: Visualization Optimization
Before
All values drawn even if their number
exceeded the number of displayable pixels
Now
Only the number of visible pixels drawn
Comments:
Panel: 09_Trending_VisualOptimization.pnl
150min, 1 value/ms -> values
Works fine
*Only when a very large number of values displayed
Petra Mazdin, BE-ICS-FD
September

13. FEATURE: Custom Markers
Set images per curve
Point type
Point icon
Comments:
Panel: 10_Trending_CustomMarkers.pnl
Works fine
Warning:
cannot load the image
Petra Mazdin, BE-ICS-FD
September

14. ISSUES TO REPORT
Simplify usage of the main trend panel: remove dependencies in custom shapes and global variables
Legend appearance with multiple curves: last curves are overwritten
Flexibility with the ruler panel, currently one customization per project
Flexibility with the legend panel
Flexibility with the marking selector panel
Petra Mazdin, BE-ICS-FD
September

15. QUESTIONS ?
Petra Mazdin, BE-ICS-FD
September