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title: "FINtastic Tip: Create a Chart Once, use it Everywhere"
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# FINtastic Tip: Create a Chart Once, use it Everywhere

 Posted by [B. Scott Muench](https://www.j2inn.com/blog/author/b-scott-muench)  
 Jan 9, 2020 1:11:00 PM

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All building automation operating and monitoring software has some capabilities of charting historical data. Traditionally this requires technical expertise to query the points, as well as to configure the chart/visualization. Additionally, each time a new piece of equipment or collection of points is analyzed, the process has to be done over and over again. 

Wouldn’t it be great if you could save a configured chart? And even better, what if that saved chart could be relativized across all similar equipment in a smart building? Your FINtastic Tip today is with FIN’s Historian App, you can create and save a chart once, and use it everywhere.

![Historian-1](https://www.j2inn.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Historian-1.png?width=873&name=Historian-1.png)

## **How the Historian App Works**

In buildings, there is a lot of typical equipment that gets analyzed using charts. Using the Historian App, you can configure a chart for a piece of equipment, and reuse that by saving the chart. 

If you are building a chart on an equip that has other equips of the same type, (like a ReheatVAV), you can select the 'Relative' option. Then if you save the chart, the saved chart will appear in the Historian on every equip of that same type.

![relative](https://www.j2inn.com/hs-fs/hubfs/relative.png?width=352&name=relative.png)

To learn more about Saved Charts and using Relative Charts, [check out our FIN Docs](https://finproducts.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FINFramework/pages/770708223/Historian). 

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## B. Scott Muench

Scott joined J2 Innovations as a partner in 2011 and is now Vice President of Knowledge Excellence. He has a wide range of responsibilities, including evangelism, business development and training. Scott is well known as an industry expert in smart homes and smart buildings. He is a past president of ASHRAE, and is currently a board member for Project Haystack. Scott attended Clarkson University for Mechanical Engineering and graduated with a BS/Business in Organizational Innovation.

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