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Chapter 4
Human Machine Interface
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How Do You Display Real-Time Trends?
You can build a real-time trend by dropping a real-time trend indicator on 
your front panel and popping up on it to select the HMI G Wizard. 
Alternatively, you can assemble the diagram manually using a While Loop 
and the Trend Tags VI. Wire the output of the Trend Tags VI to the terminal 
for a real-time trend indicator. The Trend Tags VI accepts an array of tag 
names, and returns information for a real-time trend you can wire directly 
to the real-time trend or Waveform Chart indicator. You can control how 
often the trend updates by the time interval control, which, if left unwired, 
is once per second by default. The scale to % control controls the scale on 
the trend. If scale to % is TRUE, the trends return as a percent (%) of full 
scale for each tag. If scale to % is FALSE, the trends return in engineering 
units. If scale to % is left unwired, trend values return in engineering units, 
by default. 
The Trend Tags VI always waits the specified time interval. For this reason, 
a Trend Tags VI usually is placed in its own While Loop because it controls 
the loop execution rate. If you want to execute other VIs at the same rate 
that the real-time trend updates, place them in the same loop. 
Figure 4-5 shows an HMI with two real-time trend displays. The 
Trend 
Tank Temperature
 displays the trend in percent of full scale, and is 
updated every 1.0 second. The 
Trend Tank Level
 is displayed in 
engineering units, and is updated every 2.0 seconds. The tag names passed 
into the Trend Tags VI are tag array constants containing the tag names of 
interest. Notice that the Trend Tags VI only accepts tag names and not tag 
group names.