James Wise
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Getting tag properties (description, engineering unit, etc...) with OPC UA for path based logging
With OPC DA, description and engineering unit come over automatically in Canary Logger Administrator. As I understand it though, the way an OPC UA server exposes properties is different.…
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Better support for digital state tags
There was some related discussion here: https://helpcenter.canarylabs.com/t/p8ytgv4/documentationexamples-for-opc-data-transformation and there are some options mentioned there that can help.…
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Additional options for data archiving, cold storage, etc...
Per https://helpcenter.canarylabs.com/t/y4ypf3y/how-to-move-historical-data-to-a-temp-directory-for-cold-storage-version-26 we can use a "cold storage" approach to move data older than x to another…
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Utility to move or permanently delete a tag from a dataset
Realizing the potential complexity in this, we've had some instances where a utility that allowed us to move a tag from one dataset to another would be beneficial.…
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Option to show state description in trend chart legend instead of value when using drawing mode = state
I like how the cursor shows the state description (e.g. "empty" in the screenshot below). It would be nice if there was an option at least to make the legend show the same thing (e.g.…
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Diagnostic tags for # of tags per quality per dataset
It would be really helpful if we could have # of tags per quality (or even just good/not good) per dataset. That way we could see this in trends and use it for events/alerts like if we had a…
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OPC UA Path Based Logging - Remove top branches from naming
We are using OPC UA Path based logging in Canary. We have one dataset per PLC/Collector session. In Kepware, we use a channel per PLC. Result is that we have "Test PLC" duplicated 3 times by path…
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Ability to include tag name/description/engineering unit in value box
See https://helpcenter.canarylabs.com/t/m1hjf1r/tag-name-in-value-box. Whether using ValueFormat or something else, it would be helpful to have an easy way to show the tag name alongside the value…
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Option to default to complete tag name on trend chart
While we have some options like manually filling in the display name we want or using "source tag" instead of "display name" in the options for the legend, cursor, or float label,…
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Email alert if Canary Admin, Messages count in last x hours > set limit
If you open Canary Admin, the messages tile shows you the warning, error, and fatal count for the last 24 hours. It might help if there was a way to setup an email alert in case this number (or…