Python Expression Tags in Historian

A Python® expression is typically a single line of Python code which, when executed, evaluates to a single value. It can also be thought of as the right-hand side of a Python assignment operation.

Python Expression Tags are used in cases where you do not want to store a raw data value, but wish to store only derived or calculated values. Historian allows raw data to be pre-processed with Python expressions during collection, so that the data collected for the expression tags contain these derived values.

See www.python.org/ for complete Python documentation.

To use a Python Expression Tag in Historian, you must configure a tag as a Python Expression Tag using either Historian File collector or Historian Excel Add-in. You can then use the Python expression on this tag to pre-process raw data before the result is inserted into Historian.