Select tags from Plant SCADA

Before you can push data to AVEVA Insight, you need to manually set the Historization property in AVEVA Plant SCADA for required tags.

To set the Historization property for trend tags

1. In AVEVA Plant SCADA, open the AVEVA Plant SCADA Studio.

2. Select your project and make it active.

3. From the Activity menu on the left, select System Model.

4. From the top menu, select Trends.

5. For each tag you want pushed to AVEVA Insight, set Historize property to TRUE.

   

6. Select Save to update the tag.

7. Compile and distribute the runtime project to the computers in your SCADA network.

To set Historization property for string or digital variable tags

8. In AVEVA Plant SCADA, open the AVEVA Plant SCADA Studio.

9. Select your project and make it active.

10. From the Activity menu on the left, select System Model.

11. At the top, select Variables.

12. For each tag you want pushed to AVEVA Insight, set Historize to TRUE.

    

13. Select Save to update the tag.

14. Compile and distribute the runtime project to the computers in your SCADA network.

To set historization for alarm tags

15. In AVEVA Plant SCADA, select the relevant project and open the AVEVA Plant SCADA Studio.

16. From the Activity menu on the left, select System Model, and then select Alarm.

17. For each tag you want pushed to AVEVA Insight, set Historize to TRUE.

    

18. Select Save to update the tag.

19. Compile and distribute the runtime project to the computers in your SCADA network.

Note: Please refer to the AVEVA Plant SCADA documentation for more information about the various configuration options available.