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Screen Height and Width Dimensions Templates

Are there templates when sizing and choosing height and width based on device I want to display it on. For example, what would be the optimal height and width screen size if I want to create an…

Value Box AggregateInterval/AggregateStartTime Configuration

What is the best way to configure AggregateInterval and AggregateStartTime to accurately display the current shift's total production and current total load count?…

Schedule a daily export to excel

I see where you can schedule an automated report that sends a image via email and I also see how to export data in Axiom. What I would like to do is export a set of data to excel daily.…

ReadAPI Multiple Aggregate Methods & Return Format

I’m wondering if the getTagData2 API method can return a list of tags over the same time interval but with different aggregate methods. Axiom seems to handle this,…

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Possibly to convert/change data types?

We've implemented our pilot site with Canary using MQTT Collector and noticed that many tags are classified as I8 when they could be I1 or I2. These data types are defined in our Ignition system.…

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View assets in list instead of tiles

We've got a view with some long asset names. With each asset being a tile, the beginning and end of the asset name are cut off. And some of the names are similar.…

"Axiom Error: 'Bad: An Error Occurred'"

Hi everyone, I'm encountering an issue where Axiom is working fine for one user, but when another user logs in, they receive the error message: "Bad: an error occurred while processing your request.…

Cannot support operations that write to the log file

Hello Everyone, We’re encountering an issue where some events remain open in SQL, even after the corresponding flag becomes false. Upon investigation, we found the following errors: 1.…

Canary Admin Default Target

Hi, I have the Canary Admin Client installed on my laptop, without the Admin Service. 99% of the time, I need to connect to the Historian node and the rest to a fleet of S+F collectors.…

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Axiom trend charts

Hi, Does anyone know whether I can create new trend charts in one system and copy them over to the new system? The new system is not set up for production yet since we are still performing a series…

Efficient querying for calculated interval data

We have a calculation writing 11 tags every 5 minutes to it's own dataset for our BI team. Since the historian is write-by-exception only, when querying this 5m data,…

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Issue with HTTPS Access to Axiom in Canary Historian (Lab vs. Prod)

We have both Lab and Production setups of the Canary Historian. In our Lab setup, HTTPS access to Axiom works correctly. However, in Production, it fails.…

Ignition to Canary: Bad Quality Codes Returning None/0 via API

Hello Everyone, We are using Ignition to historize process data to Canary via the Canary module. We've configured two types of bad quality codes for the tag:…

Conditional Regex - Add a space?

There might be an obvious answer that I'm missing, but I've got a minor issue and I'm hoping there's a simple way through it. We have a DataSet in which the tag names either just say what they are,…

Transfer historical data from Wonderware Historian to Canary Historian

Is it possible to transfer historical data from Wonderware Historian & continue to store the same tags in the canary historian ?

Basic web API usage

I'm trying to write a little tool to put data into Canary tags through the Web API but am hitting my lack of knowledge on such things. Looking at the endpoints in the Identity tile,…

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Linear gauge scripts for start time and scale max

Hello, I am trying to use scripts to use a date time picker value as the start time for a linear gauge and a value box as the scale max in the same linear gauge, but I am getting errors for both.…

Collecting data from a Web API (api.openweathermap.org)

We want to collect local weather information from openweathermap.org and store it in Canary. I could write a little tool to get the data and put it into a CSV for Canary to read with the CSV…

Date/time arithmetic in Calculations

Apologies if this is a silly question or if I'm repeating something I've already asked (I'm sure I asked something like this a while ago) but what is the best way to do date and time arithmetic in…

Asset properties question

We have a database monitoring solar PV generation. We have several inverters, each connected to several strings of solar panels. We want to monitor the output of each string of panels and compare…

Connecting to Axiom Via Talk2M Connection

We are currently running Canary version 24 on our PLC. For security purposes, the PC with the server is not connected to the internet. I am trying to connect the client to remote computers that are…

Axiom Time Stamp Math

Hello All, I am building a data source diagnostics page in Axiom and would like to calculate the age of the last TVQ for each data source. I have two parts of this I am having trouble with.…

Using custom time picker entries in value boxes

Is it possible to use the custom time picker entry as the aggregate interval or aggregate start time values in a value box? i.e. use the start time of the custom time picker as the aggregate start…

Obsolete Tags

Hi, I have a tag that I deleted, however, I want to use the name of this tag without resetting the old data, how can I do it? Thanks

A tag that's value is the year data started

This is related to not being able to manually create tags. For filtering reasons in Axiom, I want to be able to have a tag that's value is the year the tags were added (i.e.…