Hi Nawaz, You should be able to use the AIM*Datalink package you've purchased to access historical data from your AIM* historian. You should not need to purchase another package. For more information, see the AIM*Datalink manual B0193YJ - Chapter 7 - Access to Historical Data. Regards, Kevin FitzGerrell On 9/1/07, nawaz akhtar <nawazakhtar@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Kevin, Hi, > > I have in the past been contacting you for advise on various matters. > > We have an IA Series with AW51E, CP60FT arrangement, and four WPs. We also > have a Humingbird-Exceed PC connected to a WP. > > Once again, I am here to ask for your advise, Recently we purchased an > AIM*DATALINK > > package to be able to see data history, and use MS-XL manipulations.Our main > purpose is to get historical data be able to analyze using XL / a custom > report. > > It turns out that we can see the live data, whereas we can neither use this > package to store > > nor retrieve data from AIM*., therefore the question is is there a way to do > it using this package, or OPC is the only way to do it? Is there another > way? > > Look forward to hear from you, > > Rgds, > > Nawaz Akhtar > > > > > _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave