Each cursor has one cursor label for each pen displayed. The cursor label displays the value of the pen at the point where the cursor intersects with the pen data.
An alarm pen label value has the following format:
State [acknowledgement]
State refers to the alarm state at the point of intersection, and acknowledgement refers to the acknowledged state of the alarm at the point of intersection.
To display cursor labels:
This table summarizes how to use cursor labels:
|
Task |
Description |
|---|---|
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Move a cursor label |
Click the cursor label and drag the label to a new location. |
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Change the size of cursor labels |
Click the cursor label you want to re-size. Place the mouse cursor on one of the sizing boxes, and drag the label to the new size. If you drag the corner of the label, the label text resizes to an optimal size for the label. |
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Lock or unlock the cursor labels |
Click the Lock/Unlock Cursor Labels. When on, this command causes cursor labels to be "frozen" in the position. |
The cursor label displays the following information:
|
Cursor field |
Applies to |
Description |
|---|---|---|
|
Pen Name |
All Pen types |
Displays the non-unique Process Analyst pen name |
|
Value/Quality |
All Pen types |
Displays the value of the pen at the point the cursor intersects with the pen data |
|
Date-Time Stamp |
All Pen types |
Displays the date/time stamp at the point the cursor intersects with the date/time axis. |
|
Alarm Sample Comment |
Alarms |
Comment bound to an alarm sample. |
The fields are displayed in the cursor label using the order defined above using the format specified for the vertical axis. For example, if your vertical axis format is "km/h", the label reads "<value> km/h".
The label displays the following values when the quality of the data is not good:
|
Cursor value |
Description |
|---|---|
|
NA |
At the point of intersection the pen has no available data for display. |
|
Gated |
At the point of intersection the pen's data has been gated. |
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Disabled |
At the point of intersection the alarm tag of the pen was disabled. |
The label value can also contain a directional indicator that functions as follows:
|
Cursor value |
Description |
|---|---|
|
<value> -> |
The cursor is to the left of the first available sample for this pen. |
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<- <value> |
The cursor is to the right of the last available sample for this pen. |
Published June 2018