Utility Data Reference

The Utility Data Reference provides a set of utility functions that can be used in retrieving values from tags or to perform functions over other Attributes within the current case. The Utility Data Reference configuration dialog box is shown below.

The results of these calculations can be used as inputs into Sigmafine analyses and reporting. The calculations are listed in the following table.

Sigmafine Utility Data Reference Calculations

Calculation Type	Description
Round	Performs the rounding function on a passed attribute/tag. The rounding function truncates a numeric value to the configured decimal digits. The rounding function does not work on string attributes/tags.
Count	Performs the count function over a passed tag. The count function counts how many values are stored within the current case (and the offset needed) with the possibility to filter-out the BAD values. This function does work on string tags.
Time	This function returns the duration of the case. The duration is the time lapse (difference) between the End-Time and the Start-Time of the Case itself.
Summary	Performs a summary function over a passed tag. Unlike standard PIPoint summary, this summary is conditional. So, it can be used for doing totalizations or averages when a second tag is in a specific condition.Example: Totalize “tag-A” when “tag-B” is greater than 5.This function does not work on string tags.