Mobile History app interface
) from the Mobile Desktop view or from a hyperlink in Mobile Px.
The first view is a listing of histories directly under the station. The station name appears in the header area.
Figure 16. Example of a Mobile History view with no grouping
If you are using the History Grouping folder (under the History Services node), the histories are grouped according to the organization of your history grouping folders.
Figure 17. Example comparing grouped history views in the Workbench Nav tree (left) with the Mobile app view (right)
Figure 18. Mobile History Control display a Chart, Table or Time Range dialog box
In addition to the standard Niagara Mobile controls and indicators (see Common Mobile interface controls and indicators), the Mobile History Console app uses the following:
- Chart (Mobile 7/OAT1 in the example above)
Tap this control to create a chart of the active history record.
In addition to the standard mobile controls (see Common Mobile interface controls and indicators), chart controls include the following:
- Highlight
Use this control to toggle between highlight enabled (
) and highlight disabled (
) When highlight is enabled, you can touch and drag a defining area of the chart to enlarge (or “zoom in on”) it. When the
control is toggled to the disabled setting, zoom-highlighting is disabled. You can disable highlighting when you want to touch
the screen without zooming.
- Reset Zoom
Tap the reset zoom control (
) to return a zoomed-in display to normal size (no zoom).
- Delta
Tap the delta control (
) to create charts with delta reporting. This option is useful to display value changes (delta) in your report. This control
is located in the Time Range dialog box.
- Hover Text
You can display X and Y axis data from a point on the chart display by touching the point. The point data displays as shown in the following illustration.
Figure 19. Mobile History Chart Zoom and Hover Text feature
- Highlight
- Table
Tap this control to display a table of the data for the selected history. In addition to the standard table controls (see Common Mobile interface controls and indicators) you can use the Time Range dialog box to select a unique range or a preset range of data. Additional table controls include the following:
- Column sorting
Tap the heading of the column to sort on.
- Column selection
Show or hide table columns using the columns chooser. Click the
to show the column chooser.
- Next > Prev < buttons
These buttons appear in the control bar when there are more records in the table than displayed on one view. Use the buttons to advance to the next or previous set of records.
- Column sorting
- Time Range dialog box
This dialog box is used for setting a time range of records to display in your table or chart. You can type directly in the date and time fields or use the date and time chooser tool by clicking the Time Picker button.
Figure 20. Time Range dialog box
- Time Range
Use this button to choose from a list of relative time range options.
- Delta
Tap the delta control (
) to create charts with delta reporting. This option is useful to display value changes (delta) in your report..
- Date/Time Fields
Type directly in these fields to designate a custom time range.
- Time Picker
Tap this button to open the Time Picker tool, a convenient way to enter time data.
- Time Range