Parameter Description
timeSpec Time format:
l Local =the time values exported are the time of the HMI device.
l Global = the time values exported are in UTC format.
FileName Enabled when the DateTimePrefixFileName=true
The below wildcards are supported
l %n = Trend name
l %y = Year
l %M = Month
l %d = Day
l %h = Hour
l %m = Minutes
l %s = Seconds
Example: \%n\%y%M%d\%h%m%s
Note: execution of the DumpTrend action will automatically force a flush to disk of the data temporarily
maintained in the RAM memory. See "History trends" on page194 for details on how to save sampled data to
disk.
Note: external drives connected to USB port must have format FAT or FAT32. NTFS format is not supported.
WARNING: Be aware there are limits in the max number of files that can create inside a folder. Limits
are depending of different factors and are not simple to calculate, you can think as 999 the max
number of files that can be use inside a folder.
To convert binary dump files to .csv
The TrendBufferReader.exe tool is stored in the Utils folder of the HMWIN Studio installation folder.
Use the following syntax:
TrendBufferReader -r Trend1 Trend1.csv 1
where:
Trend1 = name of the trend buffer without extension resulting from the dump (original file name is trend1.dat)
Trend1.csv = name for the output file.
.csv file structure
The resulting .csv file has five columns
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