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Overview
The Point Details page shows information about a tag, calculation, or attribute value. It shows a consolidated view of the data point, including properties, related pages and trends, comments, and a simple trend, so you can see where and how the data is being used in the system.
The Point Details page also allows you to:
- View and add comments
- Open links to pages and trends that use the data item
- Open the data item in a full trend
- Change the time range and refresh rate of the mini-trend displayed on the page
Layout
Click the markers 
through this interactive tour to learn more about the layout of the Point Details page.
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Opening a Point Details Tab
For attribute values, you can open the Point Details from:
- Right-click menu for a data component on an Explorer Page
- Hierarchy Navigator's Attribute Panel
For tags (including a calculation tag), you can open the Point Details from:
- Right-click menu for a data component on an Explorer Page
- Tags Navigator
- Search Page
- Point Details page for an Attribute Value (if the attribute value references a tag)
Right-Click Menu
Page components that display the value of a tag or attribute value have a right-click menu containing a link to the Point Details page for the data point. The components may either display a single value, or a main value in relation to other values.
Right-click on the page control to open the menu, and then click Open Detail to open the Point Details page, in a new Explorer tab.
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Opening Point Details from a Data Label:
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Opening Point Details for the measured data tag in a Level Meter:
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You can open an attribute value's point details page by using Ctrl+Click from the attribute panel in the Hierarchy Navigator.
1. Open the Hierarchy Navigator.
2. Locate an entity in a hierarchy, and click it.
3. Click Show Attributes to open the Attributes Panel, which displays the attributes for the selected entity.
4. On the slide-out Attributes Panel, hold Ctrl while you click on an attribute or attribute value.
The Point Details page opens in a new Explorer tab.
Note: If you Ctrl+Click an attribute, the Point Details page will show the attribute's default attribute value.
You can open a tag's Point Details page by clicking the information 
icon in the Tags Navigator.
1. Open the Tags Navigator.
2. Search for a tag name, or filter the tags by datasource.
3. Click the information icon next to the tag you are interested in (note the icon darkens as you hover over it, and a tooltip appears).
The Point Details page opens in a new Explorer tab.
Search Page
You can open a tag's Point Details page by clicking the information icon on the Search page.
1. Open the Search page (click Search on the Home ribbon tab).
2. Type part of a tag name or description in the Search box, and then press Enter.
3. Click the Tags tab.
4. Hover over a tag and click the information icon.
The Point Details page opens in a new Explorer tab.
Attribute Value's Point Details
If an attribute value references a tag, you can open the Point Details for the tag from the Point Details page for the attribute value.
In the Point Details page for an attribute value, where the type is Tag, click the tag name.
The Point Details page for the tag opens in a new Explorer tab.
Release History
- Point Details 4.5.5 (this release)
- The Point Details of a tag or attribute now shows the current timestamp, below the current value.
- Point Details 4.5.3
- The point details (when opened from a page control, such as a chart) opens with its end time defaulted to Now, with a one week duration.
- The sample interval that is used in the trend now adapts automatically to suit the selected duration, providing a better resolution of the trend. For example, a 2 years duration might use a 12 hours sample interval, while a 30 minutes duration might use a 10 seconds sample interval.
- New Details ribbon tab, which opens for a Point Details page
- Point Details 4.4.5
- The Display Properties of a tag appear on the Tag Details page. These details are stored in the tag definition in P2 Server.
- Calculation details, opened from a Tag Details page, are displayed in a pop-up window that remains open even when the Tag Details page is closed.
- References to pages and trends have a larger area now, below the trend, and are grouped into columns. Scrollbars appear if the list of referenced items exceeds the allocated area.
- If units are allocated to a tag, then these appear with the tag value.
- Point Details 4.4