Connecting Intouch HMI 2023 to Historian 2023 tag data

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I'm having trouble configuring a brand new application developed in Intouch HMI v2023 to connect to Historian 2023. We used to do this fairly easily using the Distributed Name Manager and configuring a Distributed History Provider. Following the same steps in v2023, but the Test Connection button always fails to connect to my Historian. 
 Just to ensure I wasn't crazy, I went back to an old v2014 application to verify how it was done and the interface and options haven't changed much. 
 Is this something that's maybe just broken in the latest release? 
 This is a standard Intouch Application, not System Platform.

Richard Köhlerstrand · Accepted Answer

Thank you for the clarifications. 
 So for your setup, Configuring InTouch logging or Historical Logging is not required. This only activates features to have InTouch as a source for generating historical data. 
 When it comes to have InTouch retrieving data from an Historian this is usually configured on the component used, (trend components etc.) 
 But your issue in Distributed name manager had me testing, and I also have issues to connect to my Historian, validating the credentials. No matter what kind of user I was testing and i tried various formats in the User Name. 
 To troubleshoot I wanted to try and use a SQL user, even though the use of SQL Server users are not recommended. To do this I had to enable SQL Server mode. This requires a restart of the SQL Server service. 
 
 After this I enabled my sa user and set a password. 
 Yeah.. I know, troubleshooting over security decisions, but it is my test setup.. :) . 
 The outcome of this was that I could configure my history provider. 
 
 So there do seem to be something going on here, I expect to be able to connect with a windows account but I can not get passed the Test connection in any way. Also the documentation has changed and some screenshots does not look as in InTouch 
 Even tried using the newly introduced Credentials Manager (found in Application Manager Tools menu). But the results was the same. Need to investigate and perhaps raise a ticket with techsupport to sort that out. 
 At least I could view my provider in the Historical Trend Configuration 
 
 You could also explore some of the newer trend components, they have built in support for Historian Connection and could be an alternative. Still, there seems to be some broken things here, so the introduction of credentials manager might have affected several existing components.

Connecting Intouch HMI 2023 to Historian 2023 tag data

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