ProfileView+

Overview

When to use it

Use this symbol when you need to:

• Watch a scanner profile such as moisture, basis weight or caliper across the machine, one row per scan.
• Find streaks, heavy edges and drift by color.
• See which zones run above or below a target.
• Review a finished reel, or the reel in progress, one at a time.
• See where reels start and end on a longer time range.

Choose Heatmap+ to compare unrelated signals across time buckets. ProfileView+ keeps the zones in their physical order and adds an average profile, a current scan and a reel selector.

Before you begin

• Use one numeric PI Point or AF attribute for each zone, with the same data type and unit. The first data source in the Trace Options list sets the data type, unit and multi-state limits for the whole symbol.
• To work with reels, have an event frame for each reel in an AF database. A reel can carry a target attribute.
• Configure PI Web API for Vision Library+. The symbol loads its own history.
• Use a short time range, such as one reel. The symbol loads one row per interval for every zone, up to the height of the symbol, so a long range with many zones loads slowly.

Add and set up the symbol

1. Select ProfileView+ in the PI Vision symbol gallery.
2. Drag the zone PI Points or attributes onto the display. Each data source becomes one column.
3. Set the display time range to the period to review, for example one reel.
4. Right-click the symbol and select Configure Profile View....
5. Under Scales, open Value and set Sort by to Name (1). This puts the zones in numeric order, so Zone 2 comes before Zone 10. Leave it on Default to keep the order of the data source list.
6. Close the configuration pane. The symbol shows the zones from left to right and the time from top to bottom.

Under the heatmap, the average profile shows each zone's average over the time range. The colors come from the multi-state limits of the first zone. To check or change the zone order, open Trace Options in the configuration pane and use the arrow buttons.

Common tasks

Color the profile by its distance from a target

Use this when operators ask which zones run above or below the target. Zones at the target take the At Target color, white by default, and zones above and below take two other colors.

1. Right-click the symbol and select Configure Profile View.... Under General, open Coloring.
2. Set Gradient to Diverging (Centered at Target) (1).
3. Set Target to Custom (2) and enter the target value (3).
4. Set Range to Manual (4) and enter a Value Range (5). Colors reach full strength this far from the target: with a target of 50 and a range of 25, the scale runs from 25 to 75.
5. Optionally change Below Target, At Target and Above Target.

The heatmap shows red where the zones run above the target (1) and blue where they run below it (2). The target value appears on the scale of the average profile (3), and the profile is drawn around it.

Deviation chooses what the distance means: Absolute is the difference in the unit of the data, Percent is the difference in percent of the target. Range set to Auto uses the range of the loaded data, and MS uses the multi-state limits.

If every reel has its own target, set Target to Event (2). The symbol reads the attribute named in Event Attribute (3) from the selected reel. It uses the Fallback (4) when the reel has no such attribute or no reel is selected. This needs the Selection mode described in Review one reel at a time.

Show the average profile and the latest scan

Use this to compare the newest scan with the average profile of the period, and to see the average of all zones over time.

1. Right-click the symbol and select Configure Profile View.... Under Scales, open Value.
2. Turn Show Histogram on (1). The average profile appears under the heatmap. Set its Height (2).
3. Set Display Mode (3) to Absolute to plot the values, or to Deviation to plot the distance from the target.
4. Turn Show Current Scan on (4) and choose a Current Scan Color (5).
5. To plot the average of all zones for each point in time, open Time and turn Show Histogram on.

The average profile (1) shows each zone's average over the time range, in the colors of the scale. The line (2) is the newest scan. The strip to the left of the time axis (3) is the average of all zones at each time.

Where the line leaves the average profile, the newest scan differs from the average of the period.

Review one reel at a time

Use this when operators judge each reel separately. The selector lists the reels, and the symbol plots the reel you pick.

1. Right-click the symbol and select Configure Profile View.... Under Events, open General.
2. Turn Enabled on (1) and set Mode to Selection (2).
3. Optionally change Max Events (3), the most reels the selector loads. Set Auto Select (4) to Latest Reel to plot the newest reel automatically. Manual waits for a choice.

1. Right-click the symbol and select Events Search Criteria....
2. Check that Database (1) names the AF database with your reels and that Event Type and Attribute Value (2) is set to the reel template. Keep Search Mode (3) on Events Active in Time Range and select Apply.

1. To show the time before and after each reel, open Padding, turn Use Padding on (1) and set Before Reel (2) and After Reel (3).

A selector appears at the top of the symbol. It lists the reels found in the symbol's time range, which is the display time range unless you set Start- and Endtimes under Data Retrieval. The symbol plots the selected reel, with the padding around it, and ignores the display time range for the plot.

The selector has a button that collapses it (1), a search box (2), buttons for the previous and next reel (3) and a button that clears the selection or, with Latest Reel, returns to the newest reel (4). Select a reel in the list (5) to plot it. The shaded region (6) is the reel and the padding is the unshaded part around it.

Mark reel starts and ends on a time range

Use this when you want one long profile and need to see where each reel began and ended.

1. Right-click the symbol and select Configure Profile View.... Under Events, open General.
2. Turn Enabled on and set Mode to Continuous.
3. Right-click the symbol and select Events Search Criteria... to choose the reels, as in Review one reel at a time.
4. Open Events > Style. Select Start (1) and End / Turnup to draw the markers.
5. Choose a Color Mode (2). Auto gives each reel its own color, Custom uses one color and Severity colors by event severity.
6. Set the Line (3) and the Labels (4) as needed.

The symbol plots the whole time range and draws a labeled line at the start (1) and the end (2) of each reel. The next reel starts in its own color (3).

Region shades the area of the reel. It is available in Selection mode only.

Color the profile in threshold bands

Use this when the decision is whether a zone is inside a band, not how far it is from a value. Each band has one flat color.

1. Right-click the symbol and select Configure Profile View.... Under General, open Coloring.
2. Set Gradient to OFF (Discrete) (1). Every value takes the color of the band it falls into.
3. Right-click the symbol and select Configure Multi-State.... The pane lists the bands from Minimum to Maximum with their limits.
4. Click the color of a band, for example Hi (2), and select another color from the palette.

The heatmap and the average profile use flat bands in the colors of the multi-state. The limits come from the multi-state source shown under Multi-State Source.

Smooth (RGB) and Smooth (Perceptual) blend between the limit colors. Smooth (Perceptual) corrects the blend so that transitions look more even.

Use the symbol

• Hover the heatmap to see the tooltip and the crosshair. Over a reel marker the tooltip adds the reel name, start, end and duration.
• Click a reel marker to open the PI Vision Event Details of that reel. The dialog has an Edit button, which changes the event frame in AF. The symbol itself writes nothing.
• Pick a reel in the selector to plot it. The choice applies to this symbol and is not saved with the display.
• No data: a cell without a good value takes the Bad data color of the multi-state, and the tooltip shows No Data.
• Digital data is colored by state, with a legend at the top right. It has no histograms and no current scan.

Configure the symbol

Right-click the symbol and select Configure Profile View.... The pane has the sections General, Scales, Data Retrieval, Events, Trace Options and Numbers. The Events section shows its Style and Padding groups when events are enabled.

General: Style

General: Coloring

Scales: Value

Scales: Time

Data Retrieval

Events

Trace Options and Numbers

Troubleshooting and limitations

Limitation: The symbol reads interpolated values only. It does not plot the recorded values of a PI Point.

Limitation: All zones share the data type, unit and limits of the first data source.

Limitation: The average profile, the current scan and the time strip are not available for digital data.