Last time I used it (several years ago), links were real time. You could = do 'gets' and 'sets' right from the spreadsheet. -----Original Message----- From: Ed Zychowski [mailto:Ed.Zychowski@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 9:55 AM To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [foxboro] Data collection software for Sun I/A Ken, Where would the spreadsheet get the data? Would it be from the = historian? If so, we would have to remove any exception handling when we are doing = a collect. We are using the legacy historian so that might be too = practical, since we need to stop the historian to edit the historian tags. If the data doesn't come from the historian, this might be a slick = solution providing that we can specify the times in the future and a a one second data rate. = =20 "Ken Heywood" = =20 <kheywood@xxxxxxx To: = foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx = =20 om> cc: (bcc: Ed = Zychowski/Coated & SC Papers/IPAPER) =20 Sent by: Subject: Re: [foxboro] = Data collection software for Sun I/A =20 foxboro-bounce@fr = =20 eelists.org = =20 = =20 = =20 08/25/2003 07:23 = =20 AM = =20 Please respond to = =20 foxboro = =20 = =20 = =20 I believe that Lotus on Sun boxes has Foxboro extensions that can =3D snapshot process block data. You could set up a spreadsheet template for = =3D one row, duplicate the rows, and then edit/replace the block names in = =3D each row. You could export that spreadsheet using TCP/IP to whatever =3D machine/tuning package you desire. If you are looking for some sort of heuristic tuning as found in some of = =3D these third party packages, I'm curious as to why you don't use the =3D exact block? Is it that bad? -----Original Message----- From: Ed Zychowski [mailto:Ed.Zychowski@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 8:07 AM To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [foxboro] Data collection software for Sun I/A Hey list, We are looking for a new method to get data from our unix based I/A =3D systems (AW51E) for loop tuning. I am currently looking into OPC servers which = =3D seem to work well but require block configuration at both the OPC server and = =3D OPC client side. It is also very expensive. What I would like is a simple application where I can type in the tags I'm interested in (typically PID.MEAS, PID.SPT PID.OUT) and the sample rate. The application would = =3D then put the data in a file in ASCII format. I thought before I wrote =3D something I'd see what your using. Thanks in advance for your help. =3D20 =3D20 _______________________________________________________________________ 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 =3D20 foxboro mailing list: http://www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: =3D mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=3D3Djoin to unsubscribe: =3D mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=3D3Dleave =3D20 _______________________________________________________________________ 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: http://www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: = mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=3Djoin to unsubscribe: = mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=3Dleave =20 =20 _______________________________________________________________________ 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 =20 foxboro mailing list: http://www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: = mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=3Djoin to unsubscribe: = mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=3Dleave =20 _______________________________________________________________________ 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: http://www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave