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    • Introduction to Historian REST APIs
    • Common API Parameters
      • Overview of Commonly Used API Parameters
      • TagNames Parameter
      • Start and End Timestamps Parameter
      • TagSamples Parameter
      • DataSample Parameter
      • SamplingModeType Parameter
      • Direction Parameter
      • CalculationModeType Parameter
      • FilterModeType Parameter
      • ReturnDataFields Parameter
      • Payload Parameter

        This parameter queries for the tag properties requested from the server.

      • Error Code Definitions
    • Historian REST APIs

Overview of Commonly Used API Parameters

The Historian REST service provides various REST API calls to retrieve the current tags list and query data with different sampling modes. Most of these API calls use the following common parameters:

  • tagNames
  • Start and End timestamps
  • TagSamples
  • DataSamples
  • SamplingModeType
  • Direction
  • CalculationModeType
  • FilterModeType
  • ReturnDataFields
  • Payload
  • Error Code Definitions

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