Creating a Trend With the Historical Trend Wizard

You can create a standard historical trend using the automation features of the Historical Trend Wizard. Other sections describe how to manually configure a historical trend by using wizard options.

To create a historical trend with wizards

1. Open a window from WindowMaker to place a historical trend.

2. On the Draw menu, in the Insert group, click Wizards.

   The Wizard Selection dialog box appears.

3. Select Trends from the list of wizards.

   The right pane of the Wizard Selection dialog box shows a set of trend wizard icons.

4. Select the Hist Trend with Scooters wizard and click OK.

   The Wizard Selection dialog box closes and your window reappears.

5. Move the cursor to the window location where you want to place the upper left corner of the historical trend. Click to place the trend in the window.

   

6. Double-click the trend.

   The Historical Trend Chart Wizard dialog box appears.

   

7. Click Suggest. The Historical Trend Chart Wizard automatically assigns default configuration values to the trend.

   The only remaining configuration task is to assign tags to the trend pens.