You can embed pre-configured Trends on your Mimics. Embedded pre-configured Trends update in the same way as Trends that are stored as database items and provide similar advantages to embedded Mimics:
- They allow you to display Trend data on a Mimic, which is especially useful on 'overview' Mimics.
- You can embed multiple pre-configured Trends on a single Mimic. This is useful for comparing Trend data while also displaying other dynamic data such as states and values.
Embedded Trends on Mimics provide a subset of the features that are available on pre-configured Trends. You typically click (rather than right-click) on the main display area of an Embedded Trend in order to access that Trend's menu options. Embedded Trends do not support menu option access from the Trend Key. If access from Mimics to Trends with such menu options is required, consider configuring your Mimics to display the Trends in Inset Windows, for example, rather than as Embedded Trends.
To embed a pre-configured Trend on a Mimic:
- Display the Mimic that is to contain the embedded Trend. You need to display the Mimic in Design mode (see Displaying a Mimic).
- Select Trend in the Drawing command group on the Graphics Tab.
- Draw the outline of the embedded Trend by pressing the left-hand mouse button, and moving the cursor while keeping the left-hand mouse button pressed. The rectangle that is drawn is the space that will be occupied by the embedded Trend.
- Release the left-hand mouse button to display a browse window.
- Use the browse window to locate the pre-configured Trend that you want to embed.
- Select the Trend that is to be embedded, then select the OK button to confirm.
The browse window is closed and the Trend is embedded.
Alternatively:
- Display a Mimic in Design mode (see Displaying a Mimic).
- Display the Database Bar (see Display an Explorer Bar).
- In the Database Bar, select the pre-configured Trend that you want to embed and drag it onto the Mimic.
A context sensitive menu is displayed. - Select the Embedded Trend option to embed the Trend on the Mimic.
You can resize the embedded Trend by selecting it and dragging its sides. Similarly, you can reposition it by selecting it and dragging it to a new position.
You can edit the embedded Trend by double-clicking on it (see Editing an Embedded Trend). You can also access editing features by right-clicking on the embedded Trend to display a context sensitive menu (see Mimic Editing Features).