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Connecting Rstudio with Canary.

Hello, I did started study about R Language, I need help to connect Rstudio to the canary database. Can some one help me with this?

OPC DA Collector - Data Transform - NoOutput

Hi, I have an instrument that sends negative values when not in function (ex: -9999). I want to filter these values. The following OPC DA Data Transformation works fine: (x<0?(0):…

Automated Excel Entry

Hello, I have an excel sheet, and I would like to take a data tag and put it into a particular cell on a schedule automatically, is this possible? I am new to Canary.

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How to create "Internal" tags for Data Entry

I want to use the Data Entry control to manually log Lab results data. How do I create the tags needed ? These tags do not come from PLCs or any other device, they would be "Canary Internal" tags.

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Displaying Alarms

Hello! I have added near 1,000 alarms (boolean), and I want to be able to show a chart with text only when these are true. How can I do that?

Asset Label Within Asset Template Onclick functionality

I have been trying to do some scripting so that when you click on an Asset Label within an Asset Template it will take you to a certain page. It seems easy enough,…

Script to show/hide controls based on User

I need to hide or show some controls depending on the current loggued user.

ComAddin Error with Excel

Excel displays a security warning and returns a ComAddin Error after installing Canary's Excel Add-in. How can I resolve this?

Print a report with a button press?

I want to be able to run a batch, collect the data for the duration of the batch, show a live report while the batch is running with the trending tools on screen,…

Java error on Axiom desktop

user has this pop up java when we start Axiom i already try those workaround and no success Uninstall the Axiom desktop client Remove the C:\Users\{user}\AppData\Roaming\Axiom folder Reinstall the…

OPC data collector: connections to redundant DCS systems

Hello, I would like to know if the OPC DA data collectors can be configured to connect to one redundant OPC servers. I mean connect to a primary OPC server A (Active) and to a secondary OPC server b…

Data at 6am

Hi, Im creating a grid that will have 1 column of live data and 7 columns of previous data at 6am. if I use ‘now-1d’ I get the live value from a day ago.…

Axiom Command Line

Is there a way to pass credentials through a command line to Axiom to access a dashboard via thin client without getting hung up on the login screen? We would like to utilize some of the application…

Wonderware (AVEVA) historian to Canary? Options?

I've been tasked with collecting Wonderware Galaxy Objects' process values into Canary via a Wonderware/AVEVA historian data source. I know the AVEVA historian has a SQL interface,…

Websocket connection refused

I'm trying to connect to the Canary websocket JSON payload with Python and it seems to refuse to connect. I can connect to websockets created from other sources though.…

Axiom Application Data Refresh Rate

I'm noticing that for a dashboard showing "current" values across many instruments at once. It uses a lot of ValueBox and ValueBoxTimestamps. It doesn't appear that the data values update…

Display the Timestamp for the Last Time a Tag Changed Value/State

I'm trying to make an axiom application showing various current "live" data of many tags sampled every second. Some tags are related to automated discrete volume sampling from the instrument and…

Migrate GE historian data to Canary

Hi folks, has anyone experienced such a data motion from GE to Canary? I was thinking at using HDA client but Canary lacks that, right? So it’s only CSV and SQL? The db is 10gb+ so CSV might be hard.…

Setting the selected list box control item from another list box

I have a list box control with 3 options. This control updates several different bar charts in my Axiom application. As the user scrolls to see the other bar charts,…

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TLS Version

What version of TLS does Canary use/support?

CSV Collector only scans folder on service start

Hi - I have a CSV collector pulling in files from a remote site. The collector scans the folder when I start the service and correctly picks up the number of files to process.…

UI in another language

Hello, Is it possible to have the Admin and Axiom UI in another language than English? I am looking for french ... Thank you Nico

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How to add a script in Application

Hello, I would like to add a script, for instance on a button_click event. But, I dont see how to display the different events and also I don't see the code editor. How to do? Thx

iOS compatibility?

Does Axiom operate on the iOS platforms? Tried loading up in Safari as well as Chrome. Both loaded the initial New Chart page, but would not progress from there.