Systems and methods for automatically populating a display area with historized process parameters

A method for presenting historized process parameter values in a process plant, the method comprising:

• presenting, via a user interface of a computing device executing an operator application in an operating environment of a process plant, indications of process control elements in a first display region included in a layout of a display view, each of the process control elements corresponding to one or more process parameters;
• obtaining a link between the first display region and a second display region including a trend display view, wherein the link indicates that the trend display view presents indications of one or more sets of historized process parameter values of the one or more process parameters corresponding to the one or more process control elements presented in the linked first display region;
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• presenting, via the user interface, the trend display view in the second display region included in the layout of the display view, the trend display view including the indications of the one or more sets of historized process parameter values of the one or more process parameters corresponding to the one or more process control elements presented in the first display region based on the obtained link.

A system for presenting historized process parameter values in a process plant, the system comprising:

• one or more devices disposed in the process plant each performing a physical function to control an industrial process;
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• a computing device including:
• one or more processors;
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• a non-transitory computer-readable medium coupled to the one or more processors and storing an operator application thereon, that when executed by the one or more processors, causes the computing device to:
• present, via a user interface of the operator application executing in an operating environment of the process plant, indications of process control elements in a first display region included in a layout of a display view, each of the process control elements corresponding to the one or more devices disposed in the process plant and corresponding to one or more process parameters;
• obtain a link between the first display region and a second display region including a trend display view, wherein the link indicates that the trend display view presents indications of one or more sets of historized process parameter values of the one or more process parameters corresponding to the one or more process control elements presented in the linked first display region;
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• present, via the user interface, the trend display view in the second display region included in the layout of the display view, the trend display view including the indications of the one or more sets of historized process parameter values of the one or more process parameters corresponding to the one or more process control elements presented in the first display region based on the obtained link.