Welcome to our guide on leveraging timestamps in XMPro to enhance your data analysis! In this tutorial, we'll dive into the importance of timestamps and how they add a crucial dimension to... hello and welcome to this short guide on
setting timestamps in XM Pro timestamps
can be very beneficial giving an extra
Dimension to your understanding of when
the data was last updated they are
especially useful in situations where
the data is not coming in at a high
frequency and you've got blazs of hours
days or even weeks in front of us we
have a water quality management
dashboard and we can see we got three
sites here however as the data is
updating it might appear as a it's not
moving because the updates are fairly
slow for a deeper insight into when this
data was updated we can introduce a
timestamp for the last update so coming
into the top right here we can edit our
element right next to the updated text
element which is hidden at the moment we
will introduce a formula element to get
the day month year hour minute and
second based on the current Tim stamp
for that data as it comes through after
selecting the query element we will add
the query expression so we just added
that in we you can see that it comes
from a data source that's attached to
this component we select current
timestamp and then apply date time as
the query that should be returned and
I'll just set it to visible so that it
shows on the front end we can see when
we run the dashboard again we now get a
time stamp on the top right giving us a
deeper insight into when the data was
last updated this can also tell us if
the data source is not being updated if
it's been standed for an hour and we can
also set up recommendations there to
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