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P2 Explorer 4.5 addresses the need for users to build their own Explorer pages and trends. With the addition of two critical components, the Performance Curve and the Embedded Trend, Studio\u2019s Toolbox has a comprehensive set of controls, enabling you to create the pages that you need, in order to optimise the way you display your data.<\/p>\n
Building on the many changes and enhancements in the Explorer 4.4 releases, Explorer 4.5 offers a more usable Design Mode, and a Display Mode that makes it simpler for users to navigate through the displays, and easier to understand data and trends.<\/p>\n
Navigation has been streamlined to give a better user experience, allowing users to link to pages, trends or related information on external URLs through hyperlinks or drill-down charts on pages, as well as view a trend or point details of data displayed on pages. Workspaces are easier to work with than before, and the ribbon tabs have been consolidated.<\/p>\n
Release 4.5.0 includes new features and enhancements for the Trend and the Studio editor. Display mode has had several enhancements to enable additional interaction between the controls.<\/p>\n
There are two new components in the Studio toolbox in this release: Performance Curve, and Embedded Trend.<\/p>\n
Note: P2 Server 4.5 is a prerequisite for P2 Explorer 4.5.<\/p>\n
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The Performance Curve is used to analyse the performance effects of process changes or equipment efficiencies (such as the performance of pumps). The Performance Component plots data from various sources against one or more curves.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>A Performance Curve on an Explorer Page<\/p><\/div>\n
Read more: Performance Curve tutorial<\/a><\/p>\n The Performance Curve is a specialised chart, found under Charts<\/strong> in the Toolbox. It is used to show one or more idealised curves, with points of data in relation to these curves.<\/p>\n You can configure one or more curves in the component. Each curve is configured either as a Polynomial Curve<\/strong>, using a polynomial equation with fixed coefficient and constant values, or as an XY Curve<\/strong>, using a set of fixed X and Y co-ordinates.<\/p>\n The points of data are positioned on the chart based on their X and Y co-ordinates on the chart, where X and Y are each a data series, for example tag data.<\/p>\n You can optionally configure a highlight section for the Performance Curve. Highlighted items are shown in a different colour, and can be controlled by another control, such as a chart configured to use a range selector. The highlighted area could be a time selection, or a numeric range (for example, you could highlight the points that have an X value between 600 and 900).<\/p>\n Properties of the Performance Curve, in the Component Editor. 1: Define the Data to show as points on the chart; 2. Define at least one Curve for the chart.<\/p><\/div>\n The new Embedded Trend component is used to embed a smaller version of a trend within an Explorer page, and is used for quick and simple diagnostics. As with the full Explorer trend, you can use hairlines on the embedded trend, and add comments to tags at a point in time, by clicking the trace line.<\/p>\n In Display Mode, you can drag and drop time series data labels from the page onto the trend, or drag tags and attributes from the Navigators. Right-click on the embedded trend to open a full Trend display.<\/p>\n Dragging a data label onto an embedded trend<\/p><\/div>\n Read more: Embedded Trend tutorial<\/a><\/p>\n The Embedded Trend component is found under Charts<\/strong> in the Toolbox. Drag and drop it onto a page, and then configure it to show one or more data series. It\u2019s ready to use, or can be further configured.<\/p>\n In the Trend\u2019s trace table, you can now look up tags or attribute values from the Name<\/strong> column; there is also a link to the Calculation Editor.<\/strong> Trace names are now in a display name format, with icons representing their type (calculation, tag, or attribute value).<\/p>\n The item\u2019s Name<\/strong> in the trace table has the following new features:<\/p>\n The following icons provide information regarding the trace item:<\/p>\nIn Design Mode<\/h3>\n
<\/a>Embedded Trend<\/h2>\n
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Trend Enhancements<\/h2>\n
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