Summary of File collector Features
The following table outlines the features of the File collector.
| Feature | Capacity |
|---|---|
| Browse Source For Tags | No |
| Browse Source For Tag Attributes | No |
| Polled Collection | No |
| Maximum Poll Rate | N/A |
| Unsolicited Collection | No |
| Time Stamp Resolution | 1 ms |
| Accept Device Timestamps | Yes |
| Floating Point Data | Yes |
| Integer Data | Yes |
| String Data | Yes |
| Binary Data | No |
| Import CSV Files | Yes |
| Import XML Files | Yes |
| Import multiple files with various extensions | Yes |
| Collector compression | No |
| Reads data, tags and messages | Yes |
| Start/stop collection from Historian administrator | No, scanned at user specified interval. Set to 0 to stop. |
| Set file specs and import interval from Historian Administrator. (Timestamps for data or messages may be at intervals less than the import interval.) | Yes |
| Python Expression Tags | No |
| Create Historian Tags | Yes. Note: The File collector can be used to create Python Expression Tags for those collectors that support them. See the Python Expression Tags book for a list of collectors that support Python Expression Tags. |
| File Encoding | ANSI |