METHOD TO AUTOMATE HISTORIAN CONFIGURATION USING CONTROLLER-BASED META ATTRIBUTE

The invention relates to a method to automate historian configuration using controller-based meta attribute and further relates to an industrial control program development system. The industrial control program development system allows a user to set metadata attributes for respective data items in the controller that indicate which of the data tags are to be monitored and collected by a separate industrial data historian system. When the industrial controller is deployed on a plant network, the data historian system reads the metadata attributes for the respective data items (e.g., data tags or data logs) defined in the controller and configures itself to collect and store data associated with the subset of data items that have been flagged for data collection. This system mitigates the need to manually configure the data historian with the identities of the data items that are to be monitored and collected for historical or reporting purposes. 本公开涉及种使用基于控制器的元属性的自动化历史记录器配置方法。还涉及种工业控制程序开发系统，其允许用户设置控制器中相应数据项的